| kcov: code coverage for fuzzing |
| =============================== |
| |
| kcov exposes kernel code coverage information in a form suitable for coverage- |
| guided fuzzing (randomized testing). Coverage data of a running kernel is |
| exported via the "kcov" debugfs file. Coverage collection is enabled on a task |
| basis, and thus it can capture precise coverage of a single system call. |
| |
| Note that kcov does not aim to collect as much coverage as possible. It aims |
| to collect more or less stable coverage that is function of syscall inputs. |
| To achieve this goal it does not collect coverage in soft/hard interrupts |
| and instrumentation of some inherently non-deterministic parts of kernel is |
| disabled (e.g. scheduler, locking). |
| |
| kcov is also able to collect comparison operands from the instrumented code |
| (this feature currently requires that the kernel is compiled with clang). |
| |
| Prerequisites |
| ------------- |
| |
| Configure the kernel with:: |
| |
| CONFIG_KCOV=y |
| |
| CONFIG_KCOV requires gcc 6.1.0 or later. |
| |
| If the comparison operands need to be collected, set:: |
| |
| CONFIG_KCOV_ENABLE_COMPARISONS=y |
| |
| Profiling data will only become accessible once debugfs has been mounted:: |
| |
| mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug |
| |
| Coverage collection |
| ------------------- |
| |
| The following program demonstrates coverage collection from within a test |
| program using kcov: |
| |
| .. code-block:: c |
| |
| #include <stdio.h> |
| #include <stddef.h> |
| #include <stdint.h> |
| #include <stdlib.h> |
| #include <sys/types.h> |
| #include <sys/stat.h> |
| #include <sys/ioctl.h> |
| #include <sys/mman.h> |
| #include <unistd.h> |
| #include <fcntl.h> |
| |
| #define KCOV_INIT_TRACE _IOR('c', 1, unsigned long) |
| #define KCOV_ENABLE _IO('c', 100) |
| #define KCOV_DISABLE _IO('c', 101) |
| #define COVER_SIZE (64<<10) |
| |
| #define KCOV_TRACE_PC 0 |
| #define KCOV_TRACE_CMP 1 |
| |
| int main(int argc, char **argv) |
| { |
| int fd; |
| unsigned long *cover, n, i; |
| |
| /* A single fd descriptor allows coverage collection on a single |
| * thread. |
| */ |
| fd = open("/sys/kernel/debug/kcov", O_RDWR); |
| if (fd == -1) |
| perror("open"), exit(1); |
| /* Setup trace mode and trace size. */ |
| if (ioctl(fd, KCOV_INIT_TRACE, COVER_SIZE)) |
| perror("ioctl"), exit(1); |
| /* Mmap buffer shared between kernel- and user-space. */ |
| cover = (unsigned long*)mmap(NULL, COVER_SIZE * sizeof(unsigned long), |
| PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0); |
| if ((void*)cover == MAP_FAILED) |
| perror("mmap"), exit(1); |
| /* Enable coverage collection on the current thread. */ |
| if (ioctl(fd, KCOV_ENABLE, KCOV_TRACE_PC)) |
| perror("ioctl"), exit(1); |
| /* Reset coverage from the tail of the ioctl() call. */ |
| __atomic_store_n(&cover[0], 0, __ATOMIC_RELAXED); |
| /* That's the target syscal call. */ |
| read(-1, NULL, 0); |
| /* Read number of PCs collected. */ |
| n = __atomic_load_n(&cover[0], __ATOMIC_RELAXED); |
| for (i = 0; i < n; i++) |
| printf("0x%lx\n", cover[i + 1]); |
| /* Disable coverage collection for the current thread. After this call |
| * coverage can be enabled for a different thread. |
| */ |
| if (ioctl(fd, KCOV_DISABLE, 0)) |
| perror("ioctl"), exit(1); |
| /* Free resources. */ |
| if (munmap(cover, COVER_SIZE * sizeof(unsigned long))) |
| perror("munmap"), exit(1); |
| if (close(fd)) |
| perror("close"), exit(1); |
| return 0; |
| } |
| |
| After piping through addr2line output of the program looks as follows:: |
| |
| SyS_read |
| fs/read_write.c:562 |
| __fdget_pos |
| fs/file.c:774 |
| __fget_light |
| fs/file.c:746 |
| __fget_light |
| fs/file.c:750 |
| __fget_light |
| fs/file.c:760 |
| __fdget_pos |
| fs/file.c:784 |
| SyS_read |
| fs/read_write.c:562 |
| |
| If a program needs to collect coverage from several threads (independently), |
| it needs to open /sys/kernel/debug/kcov in each thread separately. |
| |
| The interface is fine-grained to allow efficient forking of test processes. |
| That is, a parent process opens /sys/kernel/debug/kcov, enables trace mode, |
| mmaps coverage buffer and then forks child processes in a loop. Child processes |
| only need to enable coverage (disable happens automatically on thread end). |
| |
| Comparison operands collection |
| ------------------------------ |
| |
| Comparison operands collection is similar to coverage collection: |
| |
| .. code-block:: c |
| |
| /* Same includes and defines as above. */ |
| |
| /* Number of 64-bit words per record. */ |
| #define KCOV_WORDS_PER_CMP 4 |
| |
| /* |
| * The format for the types of collected comparisons. |
| * |
| * Bit 0 shows whether one of the arguments is a compile-time constant. |
| * Bits 1 & 2 contain log2 of the argument size, up to 8 bytes. |
| */ |
| |
| #define KCOV_CMP_CONST (1 << 0) |
| #define KCOV_CMP_SIZE(n) ((n) << 1) |
| #define KCOV_CMP_MASK KCOV_CMP_SIZE(3) |
| |
| int main(int argc, char **argv) |
| { |
| int fd; |
| uint64_t *cover, type, arg1, arg2, is_const, size; |
| unsigned long n, i; |
| |
| fd = open("/sys/kernel/debug/kcov", O_RDWR); |
| if (fd == -1) |
| perror("open"), exit(1); |
| if (ioctl(fd, KCOV_INIT_TRACE, COVER_SIZE)) |
| perror("ioctl"), exit(1); |
| /* |
| * Note that the buffer pointer is of type uint64_t*, because all |
| * the comparison operands are promoted to uint64_t. |
| */ |
| cover = (uint64_t *)mmap(NULL, COVER_SIZE * sizeof(unsigned long), |
| PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0); |
| if ((void*)cover == MAP_FAILED) |
| perror("mmap"), exit(1); |
| /* Note KCOV_TRACE_CMP instead of KCOV_TRACE_PC. */ |
| if (ioctl(fd, KCOV_ENABLE, KCOV_TRACE_CMP)) |
| perror("ioctl"), exit(1); |
| __atomic_store_n(&cover[0], 0, __ATOMIC_RELAXED); |
| read(-1, NULL, 0); |
| /* Read number of comparisons collected. */ |
| n = __atomic_load_n(&cover[0], __ATOMIC_RELAXED); |
| for (i = 0; i < n; i++) { |
| type = cover[i * KCOV_WORDS_PER_CMP + 1]; |
| /* arg1 and arg2 - operands of the comparison. */ |
| arg1 = cover[i * KCOV_WORDS_PER_CMP + 2]; |
| arg2 = cover[i * KCOV_WORDS_PER_CMP + 3]; |
| /* ip - caller address. */ |
| ip = cover[i * KCOV_WORDS_PER_CMP + 4]; |
| /* size of the operands. */ |
| size = 1 << ((type & KCOV_CMP_MASK) >> 1); |
| /* is_const - true if either operand is a compile-time constant.*/ |
| is_const = type & KCOV_CMP_CONST; |
| printf("ip: 0x%lx type: 0x%lx, arg1: 0x%lx, arg2: 0x%lx, " |
| "size: %lu, %s\n", |
| ip, type, arg1, arg2, size, |
| is_const ? "const" : "non-const"); |
| } |
| if (ioctl(fd, KCOV_DISABLE, 0)) |
| perror("ioctl"), exit(1); |
| /* Free resources. */ |
| if (munmap(cover, COVER_SIZE * sizeof(unsigned long))) |
| perror("munmap"), exit(1); |
| if (close(fd)) |
| perror("close"), exit(1); |
| return 0; |
| } |
| |
| Note that the kcov modes (coverage collection or comparison operands) are |
| mutually exclusive. |
| |
| Remote coverage collection |
| -------------------------- |
| |
| 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); as well as from soft |
| interrupts. |
| |
| To enable collecting coverage from a global background thread or from a |
| softirq, 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 proccess collects coverage 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. |
| |
| .. code-block:: c |
| |
| struct kcov_remote_arg { |
| __u32 trace_mode; |
| __u32 area_size; |
| __u32 num_handles; |
| __aligned_u64 common_handle; |
| __aligned_u64 handles[0]; |
| }; |
| |
| #define KCOV_INIT_TRACE _IOR('c', 1, unsigned long) |
| #define KCOV_DISABLE _IO('c', 101) |
| #define KCOV_REMOTE_ENABLE _IOW('c', 102, struct kcov_remote_arg) |
| |
| #define COVER_SIZE (64 << 10) |
| |
| #define KCOV_TRACE_PC 0 |
| |
| #define KCOV_SUBSYSTEM_COMMON (0x00ull << 56) |
| #define KCOV_SUBSYSTEM_USB (0x01ull << 56) |
| |
| #define KCOV_SUBSYSTEM_MASK (0xffull << 56) |
| #define KCOV_INSTANCE_MASK (0xffffffffull) |
| |
| static inline __u64 kcov_remote_handle(__u64 subsys, __u64 inst) |
| { |
| if (subsys & ~KCOV_SUBSYSTEM_MASK || inst & ~KCOV_INSTANCE_MASK) |
| return 0; |
| return subsys | inst; |
| } |
| |
| #define KCOV_COMMON_ID 0x42 |
| #define KCOV_USB_BUS_NUM 1 |
| |
| int main(int argc, char **argv) |
| { |
| int fd; |
| unsigned long *cover, n, i; |
| struct kcov_remote_arg *arg; |
| |
| fd = open("/sys/kernel/debug/kcov", O_RDWR); |
| if (fd == -1) |
| perror("open"), exit(1); |
| if (ioctl(fd, KCOV_INIT_TRACE, COVER_SIZE)) |
| perror("ioctl"), exit(1); |
| cover = (unsigned long*)mmap(NULL, COVER_SIZE * sizeof(unsigned long), |
| PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0); |
| if ((void*)cover == MAP_FAILED) |
| perror("mmap"), exit(1); |
| |
| /* Enable coverage collection via common handle and from USB bus #1. */ |
| arg = calloc(1, sizeof(*arg) + sizeof(uint64_t)); |
| if (!arg) |
| perror("calloc"), exit(1); |
| arg->trace_mode = KCOV_TRACE_PC; |
| arg->area_size = COVER_SIZE; |
| arg->num_handles = 1; |
| arg->common_handle = kcov_remote_handle(KCOV_SUBSYSTEM_COMMON, |
| KCOV_COMMON_ID); |
| arg->handles[0] = kcov_remote_handle(KCOV_SUBSYSTEM_USB, |
| KCOV_USB_BUS_NUM); |
| if (ioctl(fd, KCOV_REMOTE_ENABLE, arg)) |
| perror("ioctl"), free(arg), exit(1); |
| free(arg); |
| |
| /* |
| * Here the user needs to trigger execution of a kernel code section |
| * that is either annotated with the common handle, or to trigger some |
| * activity on USB bus #1. |
| */ |
| sleep(2); |
| |
| n = __atomic_load_n(&cover[0], __ATOMIC_RELAXED); |
| for (i = 0; i < n; i++) |
| printf("0x%lx\n", cover[i + 1]); |
| if (ioctl(fd, KCOV_DISABLE, 0)) |
| perror("ioctl"), exit(1); |
| if (munmap(cover, COVER_SIZE * sizeof(unsigned long))) |
| perror("munmap"), exit(1); |
| if (close(fd)) |
| perror("close"), exit(1); |
| return 0; |
| } |