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Andrey Konovalov eec028c938 kcov: remote coverage support
Patch series " kcov: collect coverage from usb and vhost", v3.

This patchset extends kcov to allow collecting coverage from backgound
kernel threads.  This extension requires custom annotations for each of
the places where coverage collection is desired.  This patchset
implements this for hub events in the USB subsystem and for vhost
workers.  See the first patch description for details about the kcov
extension.  The other two patches apply this kcov extension to USB and
vhost.

Examples of other subsystems that might potentially benefit from this
when custom annotations are added (the list is based on
process_one_work() callers for bugs recently reported by syzbot):

1. fs: writeback wb_workfn() worker,
2. net: addrconf_dad_work()/addrconf_verify_work() workers,
3. net: neigh_periodic_work() worker,
4. net/p9: p9_write_work()/p9_read_work() workers,
5. block: blk_mq_run_work_fn() worker.

These patches have been used to enable coverage-guided USB fuzzing with
syzkaller for the last few years, see the details here:

  https://github.com/google/syzkaller/blob/master/docs/linux/external_fuzzing_usb.md

This patchset has been pushed to the public Linux kernel Gerrit
instance:

  https://linux-review.googlesource.com/c/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux/+/1524

This patch (of 3):

Add background thread coverage collection ability to kcov.

With KCOV_ENABLE coverage is collected only for syscalls that are issued
from the current process.  With KCOV_REMOTE_ENABLE it's possible to
collect coverage for arbitrary parts of the kernel code, provided that
those parts are annotated with kcov_remote_start()/kcov_remote_stop().

This allows to collect coverage from two types of kernel background
threads: the global ones, that are spawned during kernel boot in a
limited number of instances (e.g.  one USB hub_event() worker thread is
spawned per USB HCD); and the local ones, that are spawned when a user
interacts with some kernel interface (e.g.  vhost workers).

To enable collecting coverage from a global background thread, a unique
global handle must be assigned and passed to the corresponding
kcov_remote_start() call.  Then a userspace process can pass a list of
such handles to the KCOV_REMOTE_ENABLE ioctl in the handles array field
of the kcov_remote_arg struct.  This will attach the used kcov device to
the code sections, that are referenced by those handles.

Since there might be many local background threads spawned from
different userspace processes, we can't use a single global handle per
annotation.  Instead, the userspace process passes a non-zero handle
through the common_handle field of the kcov_remote_arg struct.  This
common handle gets saved to the kcov_handle field in the current
task_struct and needs to be passed to the newly spawned threads via
custom annotations.  Those threads should in turn be annotated with
kcov_remote_start()/kcov_remote_stop().

Internally kcov stores handles as u64 integers.  The top byte of a
handle is used to denote the id of a subsystem that this handle belongs
to, and the lower 4 bytes are used to denote the id of a thread instance
within that subsystem.  A reserved value 0 is used as a subsystem id for
common handles as they don't belong to a particular subsystem.  The
bytes 4-7 are currently reserved and must be zero.  In the future the
number of bytes used for the subsystem or handle ids might be increased.

When a particular userspace process collects coverage by via a common
handle, kcov will collect coverage for each code section that is
annotated to use the common handle obtained as kcov_handle from the
current task_struct.  However non common handles allow to collect
coverage selectively from different subsystems.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e90e315426a384207edbec1d6aa89e43008e4caf.1572366574.git.andreyknvl@google.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: David Windsor <dwindsor@gmail.com>
Cc: Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com>
Cc: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-12-04 19:44:14 -08:00
arch lib/genalloc.c: rename addr_in_gen_pool to gen_pool_has_addr 2019-12-04 19:44:13 -08:00
block compat_ioctl: remove most of fs/compat_ioctl.c 2019-12-01 13:46:15 -08:00
certs certs: Add wrapper function to check blacklisted binary hash 2019-11-12 12:25:50 +11:00
crypto Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2019-11-25 19:49:58 -08:00
Documentation kcov: remote coverage support 2019-12-04 19:44:14 -08:00
drivers drm: limit to INT_MAX in create_blob ioctl 2019-12-04 19:44:13 -08:00
fs fs/binfmt_elf.c: extract elf_read() function 2019-12-04 19:44:13 -08:00
include kcov: remote coverage support 2019-12-04 19:44:14 -08:00
init init/Kconfig: fix indentation 2019-12-04 19:44:13 -08:00
ipc y2038: remove CONFIG_64BIT_TIME 2019-11-15 14:38:27 +01:00
kernel kcov: remote coverage support 2019-12-04 19:44:14 -08:00
lib lib/genalloc.c: rename addr_in_gen_pool to gen_pool_has_addr 2019-12-04 19:44:13 -08:00
LICENSES
mm mm/memory.c: replace is_zero_pfn with is_huge_zero_pmd for thp 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
net kernel/notifier.c: remove blocking_notifier_chain_cond_register() 2019-12-04 19:44:12 -08:00
samples New tracing features: 2019-11-27 11:42:01 -08:00
scripts checkpatch: reduce is_maintained_obsolete lookup runtime 2019-12-04 19:44:13 -08:00
security + Features 2019-12-03 12:51:35 -08:00
sound compat_ioctl: remove most of fs/compat_ioctl.c 2019-12-01 13:46:15 -08:00
tools selftests: add epoll selftests 2019-12-04 19:44:13 -08:00
usr linux/scc.h: make uapi linux/scc.h self-contained 2019-12-04 19:44:12 -08:00
virt KVM: Fix jump label out_free_* in kvm_init() 2019-11-23 11:29:17 +01:00
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore modpost: dump missing namespaces into a single modules.nsdeps file 2019-11-11 20:10:01 +09:00
.mailmap Here's the main documentation changes for 5.5: 2019-12-02 11:51:02 -08:00
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