[compiler-rt] [llvm] Reapply "compiler-rt: Introduce runtime functions for emulated PAC." (PR #148094)

Anatoly Trosinenko via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Fri Jul 11 06:21:02 PDT 2025


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+//===--- emupac.cpp - Emulated PAC implementation -------------------------===//
+//
+// Part of the LLVM Project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions.
+// See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
+//
+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+//
+//  This file implements Emulated PAC using SipHash_1_3 as the IMPDEF hashing
+//  scheme.
+//
+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+
+#include <stdint.h>
+
+#include "siphash/SipHash.h"
+
+// EmuPAC implements runtime emulation of PAC instructions. If the current
+// CPU supports PAC, EmuPAC uses real PAC instructions. Otherwise, it uses the
+// emulation, which is effectively an implementation of PAC with an IMPDEF
+// hashing scheme based on SipHash_1_3.
+//
+// The purpose of the emulation is to allow programs to be built to be portable
+// to machines without PAC support, with some performance loss and increased
+// probability of false positives (due to not being able to portably determine
+// the VA size), while being functionally almost equivalent to running on a
+// machine with PAC support. One example of a use case is if PAC is used in
+// production as a security mitigation, but the testing environment is
+// heterogeneous (i.e. some machines lack PAC support). In this case we would
+// like the testing machines to be able to detect issues resulting
+// from the use of PAC instructions that would affect production by running
+// tests. This can be achieved by building test binaries with EmuPAC and
+// production binaries with real PAC.
+//
+// EmuPAC should not be used in production and is only intended for testing use
+// cases. This is not only because of the performance costs, which will exist
+// even on PAC-supporting machines because of the function call overhead for
+// each sign/auth operation, but because it provides weaker security compared to
+// real PAC: the key is constant and public, which means that we do not mix a
+// global secret.
+//
+// The emulation assumes that the VA size is at most 48 bits. The architecture
+// as of ARMv8.2, which was the last architecture version in which PAC was not
+// mandatory, permitted VA size up to 52 bits via ARMv8.2-LVA, but we are
+// unaware of an ARMv8.2 CPU that implemented ARMv8.2-LVA.
+
+const uint64_t max_va_size = 48;
+const uint64_t pac_mask = ((1ULL << 55) - 1) & ~((1ULL << max_va_size) - 1);
+const uint64_t ttbr1_mask = 1ULL << 55;
+
+// Determine whether PAC is supported without accessing memory. This utilizes
+// the XPACLRI instruction which will copy bit 55 of x30 into at least bit 54 if
+// PAC is supported and acts as a NOP if PAC is not supported.
+static bool pac_supported() {
+  register uintptr_t x30 __asm__("x30") = 1ULL << 55;
+  __asm__ __volatile__("xpaclri" : "+r"(x30));
+  return x30 & (1ULL << 54);
+}
+
+// This asm snippet is used to force the creation of a frame record when
+// calling the EmuPAC functions. This is important because the EmuPAC functions
+// may crash if an auth failure is detected and may be unwound past using a
+// frame pointer based unwinder.
+#ifdef __GCC_HAVE_DWARF2_CFI_ASM
+#define CFI_INST(inst) inst
+#else
+#define CFI_INST(inst)
+#endif
+
+#ifdef __APPLE__
+#define ASM_SYMBOL(symbol) "_" #symbol
+#else
+#define ASM_SYMBOL(symbol) #symbol
+#endif
+
+// clang-format off
+#define FRAME_POINTER_WRAP(sym) \
+  CFI_INST(".cfi_startproc\n") \
+  "stp x29, x30, [sp, #-16]!\n" \
+  CFI_INST(".cfi_def_cfa_offset 16\n") \
+  "mov x29, sp\n" \
+  CFI_INST(".cfi_def_cfa w29, 16\n") \
+  CFI_INST(".cfi_offset w30, -8\n") \
+  CFI_INST(".cfi_offset w29, -16\n") \
+  "bl " ASM_SYMBOL(sym) "\n" \
+  CFI_INST(".cfi_def_cfa wsp, 16\n") \
+  "ldp x29, x30, [sp], #16\n" \
+  CFI_INST(".cfi_def_cfa_offset 0\n") \
+  CFI_INST(".cfi_restore w30\n") \
+  CFI_INST(".cfi_restore w29\n") \
+  "ret\n" \
+  CFI_INST(".cfi_endproc\n")
+// clang-format on
+
+// Emulated DA key value.
+static const uint8_t emu_da_key[16] = {0xb5, 0xd4, 0xc9, 0xeb, 0x79, 0x10,
+                                       0x4a, 0x79, 0x6f, 0xec, 0x8b, 0x1b,
+                                       0x42, 0x87, 0x81, 0xd4};
+
+extern "C" [[gnu::flatten]] uint64_t __emupac_pacda_impl(uint64_t ptr,
+                                                         uint64_t disc) {
+  if (pac_supported()) {
+    __asm__ __volatile__(".arch_extension pauth\npacda %0, %1"
+                         : "+r"(ptr)
+                         : "r"(disc));
+    return ptr;
+  }
+  if (ptr & ttbr1_mask) {
+    if ((ptr & pac_mask) != pac_mask) {
+      return ptr | pac_mask;
+    }
+  } else {
+    if (ptr & pac_mask) {
+      return ptr & ~pac_mask;
+    }
+  }
+  uint64_t hash;
+  siphash<1, 3>(reinterpret_cast<uint8_t *>(&ptr), 8, emu_da_key,
+                *reinterpret_cast<uint8_t (*)[8]>(&hash));
+  return (ptr & ~pac_mask) | (hash & pac_mask);
+}
+
+__asm__(".globl __emupac_pacda\n"
+        "__emupac_pacda:\n" FRAME_POINTER_WRAP(__emupac_pacda_impl));
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atrosinenko wrote:

`__emupac_pacda` should probably be wrapped with `FRAME_POINTER_WRAP` on both lines.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/148094


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