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SubjectRe: Smatch check for Spectre stuff
On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 03:53:07PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 01:47:51PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > > What the test does is it looks at array accesses where the user controls
> > > the offset. It asks "is this a read?" and have we used the
> > > array_index_nospec() macro? If the answers are yes, and no respectively
> > > then print a warning.
> > >
> > > http://repo.or.cz/smatch.git/blob/HEAD:/check_spectre.c
> >
> > I just built this and threw it at v4.17-rc1, but I'm having problems
> > with the build_kernel_data.sh step.
> >
> > I get an error:
> >
> > DBD::SQLite::db do failed: unrecognized token: "'end + strlen("
> > " at ../smatch/smatch_scripts/../smatch_data/db/fill_db_sql.pl line 32, <WARNS> line 294127.
> >
> > ... in my smatch_warns.txt I see that I have the lines:
> >
> > net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_sip.c:1524 sip_help_tcp() SQL: insert or ignore into constraints (str) values('end + strlen("^M
> > ^M
> > ")');
> >
> > ... and the corresponding line in that file is:
> >
> > for (; end + strlen("\r\n\r\n") <= dptr + datalen; end++) {
> >
> > ... so I guess there's some dodgy escaping somewhere?
> >
> > I only see a small number of potential spectre issues reported:
>
> Yeah... Sorry. I will fix that. It doesn't affect anything unless
> someone starts to add SQL injection strings to the kernel but it's not
> the right thing.

Good to know! As long as that's not affecting the results, I'll ignore
that for now.

As an aside, it looks like smatch_data/db/constraints_required.schema is
missing a trailing semicolon, as the other schema files have. On one of
my machines, the distro's sqlite doesn't seem happy without it.

[...]

> The thing is say we get user data in one function then pass it to the
> next and the next down the call tree... Smatch is only building one
> layer of the call tree when you build the DB. So you have to rebuild a
> bunch of time (like 3 or maybe 5) each time you rebuild the DB.
>
> Normally, I rebuild the DB every day so it just accretes.

Ah, I see.

I'll run that in a loop to build my local db.

Thanks for the help!

Thanks,
Mark

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