merge main into amd-staging (llvm#1338)

Author: saiislam

.ci/monolithic-linux.sh

@@ -110,7 +110,11 @@ if [[ "${runtimes}" != "" ]]; then
 
   echo "--- cmake runtimes clang modules"
 
-  rm -rf "${RUNTIMES_BUILD_DIR}"
+  # We don't need to do a clean build of runtimes, because LIBCXX_TEST_PARAMS
+  # and LIBCXXABI_TEST_PARAMS only affect lit configuration, which successfully
+  # propagates without a clean build. Other that those two variables, builds
+  # are supposed to be the same.
+
   cmake -S "${MONOREPO_ROOT}/runtimes" -B "${RUNTIMES_BUILD_DIR}" -GNinja \
       -D CMAKE_C_COMPILER="${INSTALL_DIR}/bin/clang" \
       -D CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER="${INSTALL_DIR}/bin/clang++" \

bolt/include/bolt/Core/MCPlusBuilder.h

@@ -551,6 +551,16 @@ class MCPlusBuilder {
     return Analysis->isReturn(Inst);
   }
 
+  /// Returns the registers that are trusted at function entry.
+  ///
+  /// Each register should be treated as if a successfully authenticated
+  /// pointer was written to it before entering the function (i.e. the
+  /// pointer is safe to jump to as well as to be signed).
+  virtual SmallVector<MCPhysReg> getTrustedLiveInRegs() const {
+    llvm_unreachable("not implemented");
+    return {};
+  }
+
   virtual ErrorOr<MCPhysReg> getAuthenticatedReg(const MCInst &Inst) const {
     llvm_unreachable("not implemented");
     return getNoRegister();

bolt/include/bolt/Passes/PAuthGadgetScanner.h

@@ -212,17 +212,16 @@ struct GadgetReport : public Report {
   // The particular kind of gadget that is detected.
   const GadgetKind &Kind;
   // The set of registers related to this gadget report (possibly empty).
-  SmallVector<MCPhysReg> AffectedRegisters;
+  SmallVector<MCPhysReg, 1> AffectedRegisters;
   // The instructions that clobber the affected registers.
   // There is no one-to-one correspondence with AffectedRegisters: for example,
   // the same register can be overwritten by different instructions in different
   // preceding basic blocks.
   SmallVector<MCInstReference> OverwritingInstrs;
 
   GadgetReport(const GadgetKind &Kind, MCInstReference Location,
-               const BitVector &AffectedRegisters)
-      : Report(Location), Kind(Kind),
-        AffectedRegisters(AffectedRegisters.set_bits()) {}
+               MCPhysReg AffectedRegister)
+      : Report(Location), Kind(Kind), AffectedRegisters({AffectedRegister}) {}
 
   void generateReport(raw_ostream &OS, const BinaryContext &BC) const override;
 

bolt/lib/Passes/PAuthGadgetScanner.cpp

@@ -126,18 +126,16 @@ class TrackedRegisters {
 
 // The security property that is checked is:
 // When a register is used as the address to jump to in a return instruction,
-// that register must either:
-// (a) never be changed within this function, i.e. have the same value as when
-//     the function started, or
+// that register must be safe-to-dereference. It must either
+// (a) be safe-to-dereference at function entry and never be changed within this
+//     function, i.e. have the same value as when the function started, or
 // (b) the last write to the register must be by an authentication instruction.
 
 // This property is checked by using dataflow analysis to keep track of which
-// registers have been written (def-ed), since last authenticated. Those are
-// exactly the registers containing values that should not be trusted (as they
-// could have changed since the last time they were authenticated). For pac-ret,
-// any return instruction using such a register is a gadget to be reported. For
-// PAuthABI, probably at least any indirect control flow using such a register
-// should be reported.
+// registers have been written (def-ed), since last authenticated. For pac-ret,
+// any return instruction using a register which is not safe-to-dereference is
+// a gadget to be reported. For PAuthABI, probably at least any indirect control
+// flow using such a register should be reported.
 
 // Furthermore, when producing a diagnostic for a found non-pac-ret protected
 // return, the analysis also lists the last instructions that wrote to the
@@ -156,29 +154,62 @@ class TrackedRegisters {
 //    in the gadgets to be reported. This information is used in the second run
 //    to also track which instructions last wrote to those registers.
 
+/// A state representing which registers are safe to use by an instruction
+/// at a given program point.
+///
+/// To simplify reasoning, let's stick with the following approach:
+/// * when state is updated by the data-flow analysis, the sub-, super- and
+///   overlapping registers are marked as needed
+/// * when the particular instruction is checked if it represents a gadget,
+///   the specific bit of BitVector should be usable to answer this.
+///
+/// For example, on AArch64:
+/// * An AUTIZA X0 instruction marks both X0 and W0 (as well as W0_HI) as
+///   safe-to-dereference. It does not change the state of X0_X1, for example,
+///   as super-registers partially retain their old, unsafe values.
+/// * LDR X1, [X0] marks as unsafe both X1 itself and anything it overlaps
+///   with: W1, W1_HI, X0_X1 and so on.
+/// * RET (which is implicitly RET X30) is a protected return if and only if
+///   X30 is safe-to-dereference - the state computed for sub- and
+///   super-registers is not inspected.
 struct State {
-  /// A BitVector containing the registers that have been clobbered, and
-  /// not authenticated.
-  BitVector NonAutClobRegs;
+  /// A BitVector containing the registers that are either safe at function
+  /// entry and were not clobbered yet, or those not clobbered since being
+  /// authenticated.
+  BitVector SafeToDerefRegs;
   /// A vector of sets, only used in the second data flow run.
   /// Each element in the vector represents one of the registers for which we
   /// track the set of last instructions that wrote to this register. For
   /// pac-ret analysis, the expectation is that almost all return instructions
   /// only use register `X30`, and therefore, this vector will probably have
   /// length 1 in the second run.
   std::vector<SmallPtrSet<const MCInst *, 4>> LastInstWritingReg;
+
+  /// Construct an empty state.
   State() {}
+
   State(unsigned NumRegs, unsigned NumRegsToTrack)
-      : NonAutClobRegs(NumRegs), LastInstWritingReg(NumRegsToTrack) {}
-  State &operator|=(const State &StateIn) {
-    NonAutClobRegs |= StateIn.NonAutClobRegs;
+      : SafeToDerefRegs(NumRegs), LastInstWritingReg(NumRegsToTrack) {}
+
+  State &merge(const State &StateIn) {
+    if (StateIn.empty())
+      return *this;
+    if (empty())
+      return (*this = StateIn);
+
+    SafeToDerefRegs &= StateIn.SafeToDerefRegs;
     for (unsigned I = 0; I < LastInstWritingReg.size(); ++I)
       for (const MCInst *J : StateIn.LastInstWritingReg[I])
         LastInstWritingReg[I].insert(J);
     return *this;
   }
+
+  /// Returns true if this object does not store state of any registers -
+  /// neither safe, nor unsafe ones.
+  bool empty() const { return SafeToDerefRegs.empty(); }
+
   bool operator==(const State &RHS) const {
-    return NonAutClobRegs == RHS.NonAutClobRegs &&
+    return SafeToDerefRegs == RHS.SafeToDerefRegs &&
            LastInstWritingReg == RHS.LastInstWritingReg;
   }
   bool operator!=(const State &RHS) const { return !((*this) == RHS); }
@@ -199,8 +230,12 @@ static void printLastInsts(
 
 raw_ostream &operator<<(raw_ostream &OS, const State &S) {
   OS << "pacret-state<";
-  OS << "NonAutClobRegs: " << S.NonAutClobRegs << ", ";
-  printLastInsts(OS, S.LastInstWritingReg);
+  if (S.empty()) {
+    OS << "empty";
+  } else {
+    OS << "SafeToDerefRegs: " << S.SafeToDerefRegs << ", ";
+    printLastInsts(OS, S.LastInstWritingReg);
+  }
   OS << ">";
   return OS;
 }
@@ -217,10 +252,16 @@ class PacStatePrinter {
 void PacStatePrinter::print(raw_ostream &OS, const State &S) const {
   RegStatePrinter RegStatePrinter(BC);
   OS << "pacret-state<";
-  OS << "NonAutClobRegs: ";
-  RegStatePrinter.print(OS, S.NonAutClobRegs);
-  OS << ", ";
-  printLastInsts(OS, S.LastInstWritingReg);
+  if (S.empty()) {
+    assert(S.SafeToDerefRegs.empty());
+    assert(S.LastInstWritingReg.empty());
+    OS << "empty";
+  } else {
+    OS << "SafeToDerefRegs: ";
+    RegStatePrinter.print(OS, S.SafeToDerefRegs);
+    OS << ", ";
+    printLastInsts(OS, S.LastInstWritingReg);
+  }
   OS << ">";
 }
 
@@ -257,14 +298,22 @@ class PacRetAnalysis
 
   void preflight() {}
 
-  State getStartingStateAtBB(const BinaryBasicBlock &BB) {
-    return State(NumRegs, RegsToTrackInstsFor.getNumTrackedRegisters());
+  State createEntryState() {
+    State S(NumRegs, RegsToTrackInstsFor.getNumTrackedRegisters());
+    for (MCPhysReg Reg : BC.MIB->getTrustedLiveInRegs())
+      S.SafeToDerefRegs |= BC.MIB->getAliases(Reg, /*OnlySmaller=*/true);
+    return S;
   }
 
-  State getStartingStateAtPoint(const MCInst &Point) {
-    return State(NumRegs, RegsToTrackInstsFor.getNumTrackedRegisters());
+  State getStartingStateAtBB(const BinaryBasicBlock &BB) {
+    if (BB.isEntryPoint())
+      return createEntryState();
+
+    return State();
   }
 
+  State getStartingStateAtPoint(const MCInst &Point) { return State(); }
+
   void doConfluence(State &StateOut, const State &StateIn) {
     PacStatePrinter P(BC);
     LLVM_DEBUG({
@@ -277,7 +326,7 @@ class PacRetAnalysis
       dbgs() << ")\n";
     });
 
-    StateOut |= StateIn;
+    StateOut.merge(StateIn);
 
     LLVM_DEBUG({
       dbgs() << "   merged state: ";
@@ -297,8 +346,17 @@ class PacRetAnalysis
       dbgs() << ")\n";
     });
 
+    // If this instruction is reachable, a non-empty state will be propagated
+    // to it from the entry basic block sooner or later. Until then, it is both
+    // more efficient and easier to reason about to skip computeNext().
+    if (Cur.empty()) {
+      LLVM_DEBUG(
+          { dbgs() << "Skipping computeNext(Point, Cur) as Cur is empty.\n"; });
+      return State();
+    }
+
     State Next = Cur;
-    BitVector Written = BitVector(NumRegs, false);
+    BitVector Clobbered(NumRegs, false);
     // Assume a call can clobber all registers, including callee-saved
     // registers. There's a good chance that callee-saved registers will be
     // saved on the stack at some point during execution of the callee.
@@ -307,36 +365,27 @@ class PacRetAnalysis
     // Also, not all functions may respect the AAPCS ABI rules about
     // caller/callee-saved registers.
     if (BC.MIB->isCall(Point))
-      Written.set();
+      Clobbered.set();
     else
-      // FIXME: `getWrittenRegs` only sets the register directly written in the
-      // instruction, and the smaller aliasing registers. It does not set the
-      // larger aliasing registers. To also set the larger aliasing registers,
-      // we'd have to call `getClobberedRegs`.
-      // It is unclear if there is any test case which shows a different
-      // behaviour between using `getWrittenRegs` vs `getClobberedRegs`. We'd
-      // first would like to see such a test case before making a decision
-      // on whether using `getClobberedRegs` below would be better.
-      // Also see the discussion on this at
-      // https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/122304#discussion_r1939511909
-      BC.MIB->getWrittenRegs(Point, Written);
-    Next.NonAutClobRegs |= Written;
+      BC.MIB->getClobberedRegs(Point, Clobbered);
+    Next.SafeToDerefRegs.reset(Clobbered);
     // Keep track of this instruction if it writes to any of the registers we
     // need to track that for:
     for (MCPhysReg Reg : RegsToTrackInstsFor.getRegisters())
-      if (Written[Reg])
+      if (Clobbered[Reg])
         lastWritingInsts(Next, Reg) = {&Point};
 
     ErrorOr<MCPhysReg> AutReg = BC.MIB->getAuthenticatedReg(Point);
     if (AutReg && *AutReg != BC.MIB->getNoRegister()) {
-      // FIXME: should we use `OnlySmaller=false` below? See similar
-      // FIXME about `getWrittenRegs` above and further discussion about this
-      // at
-      // https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/122304#discussion_r1939515516
-      Next.NonAutClobRegs.reset(
-          BC.MIB->getAliases(*AutReg, /*OnlySmaller=*/true));
-      if (RegsToTrackInstsFor.isTracked(*AutReg))
-        lastWritingInsts(Next, *AutReg).clear();
+      // The sub-registers of *AutReg are also trusted now, but not its
+      // super-registers (as they retain untrusted register units).
+      BitVector AuthenticatedSubregs =
+          BC.MIB->getAliases(*AutReg, /*OnlySmaller=*/true);
+      for (MCPhysReg Reg : AuthenticatedSubregs.set_bits()) {
+        Next.SafeToDerefRegs.set(Reg);
+        if (RegsToTrackInstsFor.isTracked(Reg))
+          lastWritingInsts(Next, Reg).clear();
+      }
     }
 
     LLVM_DEBUG({
@@ -397,14 +446,11 @@ shouldReportReturnGadget(const BinaryContext &BC, const MCInstReference &Inst,
   });
   if (BC.MIB->isAuthenticationOfReg(Inst, RetReg))
     return nullptr;
-  BitVector UsedDirtyRegs = S.NonAutClobRegs;
-  LLVM_DEBUG({ traceRegMask(BC, "NonAutClobRegs at Ret", UsedDirtyRegs); });
-  UsedDirtyRegs &= BC.MIB->getAliases(RetReg, /*OnlySmaller=*/true);
-  LLVM_DEBUG({ traceRegMask(BC, "Intersection with RetReg", UsedDirtyRegs); });
-  if (!UsedDirtyRegs.any())
+  LLVM_DEBUG({ traceRegMask(BC, "SafeToDerefRegs", S.SafeToDerefRegs); });
+  if (S.SafeToDerefRegs[RetReg])
     return nullptr;
 
-  return std::make_shared<GadgetReport>(RetKind, Inst, UsedDirtyRegs);
+  return std::make_shared<GadgetReport>(RetKind, Inst, RetReg);
 }
 
 FunctionAnalysisResult
@@ -425,6 +471,14 @@ Analysis::findGadgets(BinaryFunction &BF,
       MCInstReference Inst(&BB, I);
       const State &S = *PRA.getStateAt(Inst);
 
+      // If non-empty state was never propagated from the entry basic block
+      // to Inst, assume it to be unreachable and report a warning.
+      if (S.empty()) {
+        Result.Diagnostics.push_back(std::make_shared<GenericReport>(
+            Inst, "Warning: unreachable instruction found"));
+        continue;
+      }
+
       if (auto Report = shouldReportReturnGadget(BC, Inst, S))
         Result.Diagnostics.push_back(Report);
     }

bolt/lib/Target/AArch64/AArch64MCPlusBuilder.cpp

@@ -191,6 +191,10 @@ class AArch64MCPlusBuilder : public MCPlusBuilder {
     return false;
   }
 
+  SmallVector<MCPhysReg> getTrustedLiveInRegs() const override {
+    return {AArch64::LR};
+  }
+
   ErrorOr<MCPhysReg> getAuthenticatedReg(const MCInst &Inst) const override {
     switch (Inst.getOpcode()) {
     case AArch64::AUTIAZ:

bolt/test/binary-analysis/AArch64/gs-pacret-autiasp.s

@@ -183,17 +183,14 @@ f_tail_called:
         .globl  f_nonx30_ret_non_auted
         .type   f_nonx30_ret_non_auted,@function
 f_nonx30_ret_non_auted:
-// FIXME: x1 is not authenticated, so should this be reported?
-//        Note that we assume it's fine for x30 to not be authenticated before
-//        returning to, as assuming that x30 is not attacker controlled at function
-//        entry is part (implicitly) of the pac-ret hardening scheme.
-//        It's probably an open question whether for other hardening schemes, such as
-//        PAuthABI, which registers should be considered "clean" or not at function entry.
-//        In other words, which registers have to be authenticated before being used as
-//        a pointer and which ones not?
-//        For a more detailed discussion, see
-//        https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/122304#discussion_r1923662744
-// CHECK-NOT: f_nonx30_ret_non_auted
+// x1 is neither authenticated nor implicitly considered safe at function entry.
+// Note that we assume it's fine for x30 to not be authenticated before
+// returning to, as assuming that x30 is not attacker controlled at function
+// entry is part (implicitly) of the pac-ret hardening scheme.
+//
+// CHECK-LABEL: GS-PAUTH: non-protected ret found in function f_nonx30_ret_non_auted, basic block {{[0-9a-zA-Z.]+}}, at address
+// CHECK-NEXT:    The instruction is     {{[0-9a-f]+}}:       ret
+// CHECK-NEXT:    The 0 instructions that write to the affected registers after any authentication are:
         ret     x1
         .size f_nonx30_ret_non_auted, .-f_nonx30_ret_non_auted
 
@@ -230,6 +227,16 @@ f_callclobbered_calleesaved:
         ret x19
         .size f_callclobbered_calleesaved, .-f_callclobbered_calleesaved
 
+        .globl  f_unreachable_instruction
+        .type   f_unreachable_instruction,@function
+f_unreachable_instruction:
+// CHECK-LABEL: GS-PAUTH: Warning: unreachable instruction found in function f_unreachable_instruction, basic block {{[0-9a-zA-Z.]+}}, at address
+// CHECK-NEXT:    The instruction is     {{[0-9a-f]+}}:       add     x0, x1, x2
+        b       1f
+        add     x0, x1, x2
+1:
+        ret
+        .size f_unreachable_instruction, .-f_unreachable_instruction
 
 /// Now do a basic sanity check on every different Authentication instruction:
 

bolt/test/binary-analysis/AArch64/gs-pacret-multi-bb.s

@@ -17,9 +17,8 @@ f_crossbb1:
         .size f_crossbb1, .-f_crossbb1
 // CHECK-LABEL: GS-PAUTH: non-protected ret found in function f_crossbb1, basic block {{[^,]+}}, at address
 // CHECK-NEXT:  The instruction is     {{[0-9a-f]+}}:       ret
-// CHECK-NEXT:  The 2 instructions that write to the affected registers after any authentication are:
+// CHECK-NEXT:  The 1 instructions that write to the affected registers after any authentication are:
 // CHECK-NEXT:  1.     {{[0-9a-f]+}}:      ldp     x29, x30, [sp], #0x10
-// CHECK-NEXT:  2.     {{[0-9a-f]+}}:      autiasp
 
 // A test that checks that the dataflow state tracking across when merging BBs
 // seems to work: