Commit 38addce8 authored by Emese Revfy's avatar Emese Revfy Committed by Kees Cook

gcc-plugins: Add latent_entropy plugin

This adds a new gcc plugin named "latent_entropy". It is designed to
extract as much possible uncertainty from a running system at boot time as
possible, hoping to capitalize on any possible variation in CPU operation
(due to runtime data differences, hardware differences, SMP ordering,
thermal timing variation, cache behavior, etc).

At the very least, this plugin is a much more comprehensive example for
how to manipulate kernel code using the gcc plugin internals.

The need for very-early boot entropy tends to be very architecture or
system design specific, so this plugin is more suited for those sorts
of special cases. The existing kernel RNG already attempts to extract
entropy from reliable runtime variation, but this plugin takes the idea to
a logical extreme by permuting a global variable based on any variation
in code execution (e.g. a different value (and permutation function)
is used to permute the global based on loop count, case statement,
if/then/else branching, etc).

To do this, the plugin starts by inserting a local variable in every
marked function. The plugin then adds logic so that the value of this
variable is modified by randomly chosen operations (add, xor and rol) and
random values (gcc generates separate static values for each location at
compile time and also injects the stack pointer at runtime). The resulting
value depends on the control flow path (e.g., loops and branches taken).

Before the function returns, the plugin mixes this local variable into
the latent_entropy global variable. The value of this global variable
is added to the kernel entropy pool in do_one_initcall() and _do_fork(),
though it does not credit any bytes of entropy to the pool; the contents
of the global are just used to mix the pool.

Additionally, the plugin can pre-initialize arrays with build-time
random contents, so that two different kernel builds running on identical
hardware will not have the same starting values.
Signed-off-by: default avatarEmese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
[kees: expanded commit message and code comments]
Signed-off-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
parent c8d2bc9b
......@@ -383,6 +383,24 @@ config GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV
gcc-4.5 on). It is based on the commit "Add fuzzing coverage support"
by Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>.
config GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY
bool "Generate some entropy during boot and runtime"
depends on GCC_PLUGINS
help
By saying Y here the kernel will instrument some kernel code to
extract some entropy from both original and artificially created
program state. This will help especially embedded systems where
there is little 'natural' source of entropy normally. The cost
is some slowdown of the boot process (about 0.5%) and fork and
irq processing.
Note that entropy extracted this way is not cryptographically
secure!
This plugin was ported from grsecurity/PaX. More information at:
* https://grsecurity.net/
* https://pax.grsecurity.net/
config HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
bool
help
......
......@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ CFLAGS_prom_init.o += -fPIC
CFLAGS_btext.o += -fPIC
endif
CFLAGS_cputable.o += $(DISABLE_LATENT_ENTROPY_PLUGIN)
CFLAGS_init.o += $(DISABLE_LATENT_ENTROPY_PLUGIN)
CFLAGS_btext.o += $(DISABLE_LATENT_ENTROPY_PLUGIN)
CFLAGS_prom.o += $(DISABLE_LATENT_ENTROPY_PLUGIN)
ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER
# Do not trace early boot code
CFLAGS_REMOVE_cputable.o = -mno-sched-epilog $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)
......
......@@ -18,6 +18,17 @@ struct random_ready_callback {
};
extern void add_device_randomness(const void *, unsigned int);
#if defined(CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY) && !defined(__CHECKER__)
static inline void add_latent_entropy(void)
{
add_device_randomness((const void *)&latent_entropy,
sizeof(latent_entropy));
}
#else
static inline void add_latent_entropy(void) {}
#endif
extern void add_input_randomness(unsigned int type, unsigned int code,
unsigned int value);
extern void add_interrupt_randomness(int irq, int irq_flags);
......
......@@ -789,6 +789,7 @@ int __init_or_module do_one_initcall(initcall_t fn)
}
WARN(msgbuf[0], "initcall %pF returned with %s\n", fn, msgbuf);
add_latent_entropy();
return ret;
}
......
......@@ -1780,6 +1780,7 @@ long _do_fork(unsigned long clone_flags,
p = copy_process(clone_flags, stack_start, stack_size,
child_tidptr, NULL, trace, tls, NUMA_NO_NODE);
add_latent_entropy();
/*
* Do this prior waking up the new thread - the thread pointer
* might get invalid after that point, if the thread exits quickly.
......
......@@ -91,6 +91,11 @@ EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(_numa_mem_);
int _node_numa_mem_[MAX_NUMNODES];
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY
volatile u64 latent_entropy;
EXPORT_SYMBOL(latent_entropy);
#endif
/*
* Array of node states.
*/
......
......@@ -6,6 +6,12 @@ ifdef CONFIG_GCC_PLUGINS
gcc-plugin-$(CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_CYC_COMPLEXITY) += cyc_complexity_plugin.so
gcc-plugin-$(CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY) += latent_entropy_plugin.so
gcc-plugin-cflags-$(CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY) += -DLATENT_ENTROPY_PLUGIN
ifdef CONFIG_PAX_LATENT_ENTROPY
DISABLE_LATENT_ENTROPY_PLUGIN += -fplugin-arg-latent_entropy_plugin-disable
endif
ifdef CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_SANCOV
ifeq ($(CFLAGS_KCOV),)
# It is needed because of the gcc-plugin.sh and gcc version checks.
......@@ -21,7 +27,8 @@ ifdef CONFIG_GCC_PLUGINS
GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS := $(strip $(addprefix -fplugin=$(objtree)/scripts/gcc-plugins/, $(gcc-plugin-y)) $(gcc-plugin-cflags-y))
export PLUGINCC GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS GCC_PLUGIN GCC_PLUGIN_SUBDIR SANCOV_PLUGIN
export PLUGINCC GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS GCC_PLUGIN GCC_PLUGIN_SUBDIR
export SANCOV_PLUGIN DISABLE_LATENT_ENTROPY_PLUGIN
ifneq ($(PLUGINCC),)
# SANCOV_PLUGIN can be only in CFLAGS_KCOV because avoid duplication.
......
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