string.h: workaround for increased stack usage

The hardened strlen() function causes rather large stack usage in at
least one file in the kernel, in particular when CONFIG_KASAN is
enabled:

  drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-dvb.c: In function 'em28xx_dvb_init':
  drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-dvb.c:2062:1: error: the frame size of 3256 bytes is larger than 204 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]

Analyzing this problem led to the discovery that gcc fails to merge the
stack slots for the i2c_board_info[] structures after we strlcpy() into
them, due to the 'noreturn' attribute on the source string length check.

I reported this as a gcc bug, but it is unlikely to get fixed for gcc-8,
since it is relatively easy to work around, and it gets triggered
rarely.  An earlier workaround I did added an empty inline assembly
statement before the call to fortify_panic(), which works surprisingly
well, but is really ugly and unintuitive.

This is a new approach to the same problem, this time addressing it by
not calling the 'extern __real_strnlen()' function for string constants
where __builtin_strlen() is a compile-time constant and therefore known
to be safe.

We do this by checking if the last character in the string is a
compile-time constant '\0'.  If it is, we can assume that strlen() of
the string is also constant.

As a side-effect, this should also improve the object code output for
any other call of strlen() on a string constant.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171205215143.3085755-1-arnd@arndb.de
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82365
Link: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9980413/
Link: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9974047/
Fixes: 3c170a6b3cf ("include/linux/string.h: add the option of fortified string.h functions")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h
index 410ecf17de3ce591017e36a95f28de18ae54dcc1..cfd83eb2f926c74622f46ed931bb1c58277df49f 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/string.h
+++ b/include/linux/string.h
@@ -259,7 +259,10 @@ __FORTIFY_INLINE __kernel_size_t strlen(const char *p)
 {
        __kernel_size_t ret;
        size_t p_size = __builtin_object_size(p, 0);
-       if (p_size == (size_t)-1)
+
+       /* Work around gcc excess stack consumption issue */
+       if (p_size == (size_t)-1 ||
+           (__builtin_constant_p(p[p_size - 1]) && p[p_size - 1] == '\0'))
                return __builtin_strlen(p);
        ret = strnlen(p, p_size);
        if (p_size <= ret)