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DataFlowSanitizer is a generalised dynamic data flow analysis. Unlike other Sanitizer tools, this tool is not designed to detect a specific class of bugs on its own. Instead, it provides a generic dynamic data flow analysis framework to be used by clients to help detect application-specific issues within their own code. Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D966 git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/cfe/trunk@187925 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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================= | ||
DataFlowSanitizer | ||
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.. contents:: | ||
:local: | ||
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Introduction | ||
============ | ||
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DataFlowSanitizer is a generalised dynamic data flow analysis. | ||
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Unlike other Sanitizer tools, this tool is not designed to detect a | ||
specific class of bugs on its own. Instead, it provides a generic | ||
dynamic data flow analysis framework to be used by clients to help | ||
detect application-specific issues within their own code. | ||
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Usage | ||
===== | ||
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With no program changes, applying DataFlowSanitizer to a program | ||
will not alter its behavior. To use DataFlowSanitizer, the program | ||
uses API functions to apply tags to data to cause it to be tracked, and to | ||
check the tag of a specific data item. DataFlowSanitizer manages | ||
the propagation of tags through the program according to its data flow. | ||
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The APIs are defined in the header file ``sanitizer/dfsan_interface.h``. | ||
For further information about each function, please refer to the header | ||
file. | ||
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Example | ||
======= | ||
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The following program demonstrates label propagation by checking that | ||
the correct labels are propagated. | ||
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.. code-block:: c++ | ||
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#include <sanitizer/dfsan_interface.h> | ||
#include <assert.h> | ||
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int main(void) { | ||
int i = 1; | ||
dfsan_label i_label = dfsan_create_label("i", 0); | ||
dfsan_set_label(i_label, &i, sizeof(i)); | ||
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int j = 2; | ||
dfsan_label j_label = dfsan_create_label("j", 0); | ||
dfsan_set_label(j_label, &j, sizeof(j)); | ||
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int k = 3; | ||
dfsan_label k_label = dfsan_create_label("k", 0); | ||
dfsan_set_label(k_label, &k, sizeof(k)); | ||
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dfsan_label ij_label = dfsan_get_label(i + j); | ||
assert(dfsan_has_label(ij_label, i_label)); | ||
assert(dfsan_has_label(ij_label, j_label)); | ||
assert(!dfsan_has_label(ij_label, k_label)); | ||
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dfsan_label ijk_label = dfsan_get_label(i + j + k); | ||
assert(dfsan_has_label(ijk_label, i_label)); | ||
assert(dfsan_has_label(ijk_label, j_label)); | ||
assert(dfsan_has_label(ijk_label, k_label)); | ||
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return 0; | ||
} | ||
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Current status | ||
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DataFlowSanitizer is a work in progress, currently under development for | ||
x86\_64 Linux. | ||
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Design | ||
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Please refer to the :doc:`design document<DataFlowSanitizerDesign>`. |
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DataFlowSanitizer Design Document | ||
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This document sets out the design for DataFlowSanitizer, a general | ||
dynamic data flow analysis. Unlike other Sanitizer tools, this tool is | ||
not designed to detect a specific class of bugs on its own. Instead, | ||
it provides a generic dynamic data flow analysis framework to be used | ||
by clients to help detect application-specific issues within their | ||
own code. | ||
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DataFlowSanitizer is a program instrumentation which can associate | ||
a number of taint labels with any data stored in any memory region | ||
accessible by the program. The analysis is dynamic, which means that | ||
it operates on a running program, and tracks how the labels propagate | ||
through that program. The tool shall support a large (>100) number | ||
of labels, such that programs which operate on large numbers of data | ||
items may be analysed with each data item being tracked separately. | ||
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Use Cases | ||
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This instrumentation can be used as a tool to help monitor how data | ||
flows from a program's inputs (sources) to its outputs (sinks). | ||
This has applications from a privacy/security perspective in that | ||
one can audit how a sensitive data item is used within a program and | ||
ensure it isn't exiting the program anywhere it shouldn't be. | ||
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Interface | ||
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A number of functions are provided which will create taint labels, | ||
attach labels to memory regions and extract the set of labels | ||
associated with a specific memory region. These functions are declared | ||
in the header file ``sanitizer/dfsan_interface.h``. | ||
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.. code-block:: c | ||
/// Creates and returns a base label with the given description and user data. | ||
dfsan_label dfsan_create_label(const char *desc, void *userdata); | ||
/// Sets the label for each address in [addr,addr+size) to \c label. | ||
void dfsan_set_label(dfsan_label label, void *addr, size_t size); | ||
/// Sets the label for each address in [addr,addr+size) to the union of the | ||
/// current label for that address and \c label. | ||
void dfsan_add_label(dfsan_label label, void *addr, size_t size); | ||
/// Retrieves the label associated with the given data. | ||
/// | ||
/// The type of 'data' is arbitrary. The function accepts a value of any type, | ||
/// which can be truncated or extended (implicitly or explicitly) as necessary. | ||
/// The truncation/extension operations will preserve the label of the original | ||
/// value. | ||
dfsan_label dfsan_get_label(long data); | ||
/// Retrieves a pointer to the dfsan_label_info struct for the given label. | ||
const struct dfsan_label_info *dfsan_get_label_info(dfsan_label label); | ||
/// Returns whether the given label label contains the label elem. | ||
int dfsan_has_label(dfsan_label label, dfsan_label elem); | ||
/// If the given label label contains a label with the description desc, returns | ||
/// that label, else returns 0. | ||
dfsan_label dfsan_has_label_with_desc(dfsan_label label, const char *desc); | ||
Taint label representation | ||
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As stated above, the tool must track a large number of taint | ||
labels. This poses an implementation challenge, as most multiple-label | ||
tainting systems assign one label per bit to shadow storage, and | ||
union taint labels using a bitwise or operation. This will not scale | ||
to clients which use hundreds or thousands of taint labels, as the | ||
label union operation becomes O(n) in the number of supported labels, | ||
and data associated with it will quickly dominate the live variable | ||
set, causing register spills and hampering performance. | ||
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Instead, a low overhead approach is proposed which is best-case O(log\ | ||
:sub:`2` n) during execution. The underlying assumption is that | ||
the required space of label unions is sparse, which is a reasonable | ||
assumption to make given that we are optimizing for the case where | ||
applications mostly copy data from one place to another, without often | ||
invoking the need for an actual union operation. The representation | ||
of a taint label is a 16-bit integer, and new labels are allocated | ||
sequentially from a pool. The label identifier 0 is special, and means | ||
that the data item is unlabelled. | ||
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When a label union operation is requested at a join point (any | ||
arithmetic or logical operation with two or more operands, such as | ||
addition), the code checks whether a union is required, whether the | ||
same union has been requested before, and whether one union label | ||
subsumes the other. If so, it returns the previously allocated union | ||
label. If not, it allocates a new union label from the same pool used | ||
for new labels. | ||
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Specifically, the instrumentation pass will insert code like this | ||
to decide the union label ``lu`` for a pair of labels ``l1`` | ||
and ``l2``: | ||
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.. code-block:: c | ||
if (l1 == l2) | ||
lu = l1; | ||
else | ||
lu = __dfsan_union(l1, l2); | ||
The equality comparison is outlined, to provide an early exit in | ||
the common cases where the program is processing unlabelled data, or | ||
where the two data items have the same label. ``__dfsan_union`` is | ||
a runtime library function which performs all other union computation. | ||
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Further optimizations are possible, for example if ``l1`` is known | ||
at compile time to be zero (e.g. it is derived from a constant), | ||
``l2`` can be used for ``lu``, and vice versa. | ||
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Memory layout and label management | ||
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The following is the current memory layout for Linux/x86\_64: | ||
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+---------------+---------------+--------------------+ | ||
| Start | End | Use | | ||
+===============+===============+====================+ | ||
| 0x700000008000|0x800000000000 | application memory | | ||
+---------------+---------------+--------------------+ | ||
| 0x200200000000|0x700000008000 | unused | | ||
+---------------+---------------+--------------------+ | ||
| 0x200000000000|0x200200000000 | union table | | ||
+---------------+---------------+--------------------+ | ||
| 0x000000010000|0x200000000000 | shadow memory | | ||
+---------------+---------------+--------------------+ | ||
| 0x000000000000|0x000000010000 | reserved by kernel | | ||
+---------------+---------------+--------------------+ | ||
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Each byte of application memory corresponds to two bytes of shadow | ||
memory, which are used to store its taint label. As for LLVM SSA | ||
registers, we have not found it necessary to associate a label with | ||
each byte or bit of data, as some other tools do. Instead, labels are | ||
associated directly with registers. Loads will result in a union of | ||
all shadow labels corresponding to bytes loaded (which most of the | ||
time will be short circuited by the initial comparison) and stores will | ||
result in a copy of the label to the shadow of all bytes stored to. |
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