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[sanitizer] Initial implementation of a Hardened Allocator
Summary: This is an initial implementation of a Hardened Allocator based on Sanitizer Common's CombinedAllocator. It aims at mitigating heap based vulnerabilities by adding several features to the base allocator, while staying relatively fast. The following were implemented: - additional consistency checks on the allocation function parameters and on the heap chunks; - use of checksum protected chunk header, to detect corruption; - randomness to the allocator base; - delayed freelist (quarantine), to mitigate use after free and overall determinism. Additional mitigations are in the works. Reviewers: eugenis, aizatsky, pcc, krasin, vitalybuka, glider, dvyukov, kcc Subscribers: kubabrecka, filcab, llvm-commits Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D20084 git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@271968 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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Scudo Hardened Allocator
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.. contents::
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:local:
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Introduction
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============
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The Scudo Hardened Allocator is a user-mode allocator based on LLVM Sanitizer's
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CombinedAllocator, which aims at providing additional mitigations against heap
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based vulnerabilities, while maintaining good performance.
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The name "Scudo" has been retained from the initial implementation (Escudo
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meaning Shield in Spanish and Portuguese).
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Design
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Chunk Header
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Every chunk of heap memory will be preceded by a chunk header. This has two
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purposes, the first one being to store various information about the chunk,
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the second one being to detect potential heap overflows. In order to achieve
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this, the header will be checksumed, involving the pointer to the chunk itself
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and a global secret. Any corruption of the header will be detected when said
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header is accessed, and the process terminated.
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The following information is stored in the header:
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- the 16-bit checksum;
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- the user requested size for that chunk, which is necessary for reallocation
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purposes;
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- the state of the chunk (available, allocated or quarantined);
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- the allocation type (malloc, new, new[] or memalign), to detect potential
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mismatches in the allocation APIs used;
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- whether or not the chunk is offseted (ie: if the chunk beginning is different
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than the backend allocation beginning, which is most often the case with some
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aligned allocations);
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- the associated offset;
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- a 16-bit salt.
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On x64, which is currently the only architecture supported, the header fits
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within 16-bytes, which works nicely with the minimum alignment requirements.
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The checksum is computed as a CRC32 (requiring the SSE 4.2 instruction set)
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of the global secret, the chunk pointer itself, and the 16 bytes of header with
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the checksum field zeroed out.
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The header is atomically loaded and stored to prevent races (this requires
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platform support such as the cmpxchg16b instruction). This is important as two
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consecutive chunks could belong to different threads. We also want to avoid
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any type of double fetches of information located in the header, and use local
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copies of the header for this purpose.
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Delayed Freelist
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-----------------
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A delayed freelist allows us to not return a chunk directly to the backend, but
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to keep it aside for a while. Once a criterion is met, the delayed freelist is
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emptied, and the quarantined chunks are returned to the backend. This helps
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mitigate use-after-free vulnerabilities by reducing the determinism of the
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allocation and deallocation patterns.
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This feature is using the Sanitizer's Quarantine as its base, and the amount of
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memory that it can hold is configurable by the user (see the Options section
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below).
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Randomness
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It is important for the allocator to not make use of fixed addresses. We use
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the dynamic base option for the SizeClassAllocator, allowing us to benefit
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from the randomness of mmap.
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Usage
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Library
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The allocator static library can be built from the LLVM build tree thanks to
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the "scudo" CMake rule. The associated tests can be exercised thanks to the
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"check-scudo" CMake rule.
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Linking the static library to your project can require the use of the
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"whole-archive" linker flag (or equivalent), depending on your linker.
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Additional flags might also be necessary.
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Your linked binary should now make use of the Scudo allocation and deallocation
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functions.
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Options
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Several aspects of the allocator can be configured through environment options,
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following the usual ASan options syntax, through the variable SCUDO_OPTIONS.
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For example: SCUDO_OPTIONS="DeleteSizeMismatch=1:QuarantineSizeMb=16".
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The following options are available:
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- QuarantineSizeMb (integer, defaults to 64): the size (in Mb) of quarantine
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used to delay the actual deallocation of chunks. Lower value may reduce
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memory usage but decrease the effectiveness of the mitigation; a negative
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value will fallback to a default of 64Mb;
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- ThreadLocalQuarantineSizeKb (integer, default to 1024): the size (in Kb) of
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per-thread cache used to offload the global quarantine. Lower value may
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reduce memory usage but might increase the contention on the global
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quarantine.
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- DeallocationTypeMismatch (boolean, defaults to true): whether or not we report
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errors on malloc/delete, new/free, new/delete[], etc;
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- DeleteSizeMismatch (boolean, defaults to true): whether or not we report
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errors on mismatch between size of new and delete;
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- ZeroContents (boolean, defaults to false): whether or not we zero chunk
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contents on allocation and deallocation.
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