[llvm-dev] Possible stack corruption during call to JITSymbol::getAddress()

Lang Hames via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Thu Apr 13 10:53:02 PDT 2017


Hi David,

This is definitely the right place to ask.

Let me see if I can reproduce this locally...

Cheers,
Lang.


On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 2:02 PM, David Lurton via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Firstly, apologies if this is not the right place to be asking this
> question--feel free to point me in the correct direction.  I could be doing
> something wrong here but stackoverflow didn't feel like the correct place
> for this since there's so little there about LLVM ORC.
>
> Basically, I have a reproduction case (below) where if I throw an
> exception before I call JITSymbol::getAddress() everything works properly
> but throwing the same exception afterward will result in a SIGSEGV during
> stack unwinding.  This suggests to me that somehow the stack is getting
> corrupted during the JITSymbol::getAddress() call.
>
> This problem was initially discovered while working on my own project.
> While troubleshooting this I've discvoered that when LLVM is
> -DLLVM_USE_SANITIZER:STRING=Address the problem happens at different
> points during execution, perhaps having something to do with the padding
> around the stack variables added by the sanitizer?  See the note after the
> call to runTest() in main().
>
> I'm running this under an up-to-date Antergos Linux, clang version: 3.9.1
> (tried compiling LLVM and the example program below with gcc 6.3.1 and the
> result is the same) clang set to default compiler by setting the following
> environment variables:
>
>     CC=/usr/bin/clang
>     CXX=/usr/bin/clang++
>
> Commands used to build LLVM:
>
>     git clone https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm.git
>     git checkout release_40
>     cd llvm
>     mkdir build
>     cd build
>     cmake .. -DLLVM_BUILD_LLVM_DYLIB:BOOL=ON -DLLVM_ENABLE_RTTI:BOOL=ON
> -DLLVM_ENABLE_EH:BOOL=ON -DLLVM_USE_SANITIZER:STRING=Address
> -DLLVM_PARALLEL_COMPILE_JOBS:STRING=8 -DLLVM_ENABLE_ASSERTIONS:BOOL=ON
>     cmake --build . -- -j 8
>     sudo cmake --build . --target install
>
> Command used to build test case executable:
>
>     clang test.cpp -std=c++14 -lstdc++ -lLLVM-4.0 -Wall -pedantic -Wextra
>  -fstack-protector-all -fsanitize=address -fexceptions
>
> Then of course:
>
>     ./a.out
>
> Output from the a.out:
>
> ASAN:DEADLYSIGNAL
> =================================================================
> ==6582==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: SEGV on unknown address 0x7f59eeb06020
> (pc 0x7f59f1b20930 bp 0x000000000001 sp 0x7ffc5e546218 T0)
> ==6582==The signal is caused by a READ memory access.
>
>
> The result if running `backtrace` in GDB while execution is paused after
> the SIGSEGV occurs:
>
> #0  read_encoded_value_with_base (encoding=encoding at entry=28 '\034',
> base=base at entry=0, p=p at entry=0x7fffe8a06020 <error: Cannot access memory
> at address 0x7fffe8a06020>, val=val at entry=0x7fffffffd6d8) at
> /build/gcc/src/gcc/libgcc/unwind-pe.h:252
> #1  0x00007fffeba05a61 in binary_search_single_encoding_fdes
> (pc=0x7fffeba04426 <_Unwind_Resume+54>, ob=0x0) at
> /build/gcc/src/gcc/libgcc/unwind-dw2-fde.c:908
> #2  search_object (ob=ob at entry=0x60400001d9d0, pc=pc at entry=0x7fffeba04426
> <_Unwind_Resume+54>) at /build/gcc/src/gcc/libgcc/unwind-dw2-fde.c:977
> #3  0x00007fffeba05fdd in _Unwind_Find_registered_FDE
> (bases=0x7fffffffda78, pc=0x7fffeba04426 <_Unwind_Resume+54>) at
> /build/gcc/src/gcc/libgcc/unwind-dw2-fde.c:1013
> #4  _Unwind_Find_FDE (pc=0x7fffeba04426 <_Unwind_Resume+54>,
> bases=bases at entry=0x7fffffffda78) at /build/gcc/src/gcc/libgcc/
> unwind-dw2-fde-dip.c:454
> #5  0x00007fffeba02b23 in uw_frame_state_for (context=context at entry=0x7fffffffd9d0,
> fs=fs at entry=0x7fffffffd820) at /build/gcc/src/gcc/libgcc/unwind-dw2.c:1241
> #6  0x00007fffeba03d40 in uw_init_context_1 (context=context at entry=0x7fffffffd9d0,
> outer_cfa=outer_cfa at entry=0x7fffffffdc00, outer_ra=0x5110fc) at
> /build/gcc/src/gcc/libgcc/unwind-dw2.c:1562
> #7  0x00007fffeba04427 in _Unwind_Resume (exc=0x60d00000c7b0) at
> /build/gcc/src/gcc/libgcc/unwind.inc:224
> #8  0x00000000005110fc in runTest () at /home/dave/projects/untitled/
> test.cpp:124
> #9  0x0000000000511138 in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffe698) at
> /home/dave/projects/untitled/test.cpp:132
>
> My test-case is below.  In runTest(), note the commented out throw
> statement before symbol.getAddress() and the uncommented one after it.
> Also note the comments after the call to runTest() in main().
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> #include "llvm/ADT/STLExtras.h"
> #include "llvm/ExecutionEngine/ExecutionEngine.h"
> #include "llvm/IR/IRBuilder.h"
> #include "llvm/ExecutionEngine/SectionMemoryManager.h"
> #include "llvm/ExecutionEngine/Orc/CompileUtils.h"
> #include "llvm/ExecutionEngine/Orc/IRCompileLayer.h"
> #include "llvm/ExecutionEngine/Orc/LambdaResolver.h"
> #include "llvm/ExecutionEngine/Orc/ObjectLinkingLayer.h"
> #include "llvm/IR/Mangler.h"
> #include "llvm/Support/DynamicLibrary.h"
> #include "llvm/Support/TargetSelect.h"
> #include <iostream>
>
> using namespace llvm;
> using namespace llvm::orc;
>
> /** This class taken verbatim from
>  * https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm/blob/release_40/
> examples/Kaleidoscope/BuildingAJIT/Chapter1/KaleidoscopeJIT.h
>  * This is from the same revision of LLVM I am using (the release_40
> branch as of 4/8/2017)
>  */
> class KaleidoscopeJIT {
> private:
>     std::unique_ptr<TargetMachine> TM;
>     const DataLayout DL;
>     ObjectLinkingLayer<> ObjectLayer;
>     IRCompileLayer<decltype(ObjectLayer)> CompileLayer;
>
> public:
>     typedef decltype(CompileLayer)::ModuleSetHandleT ModuleHandle;
>
>     KaleidoscopeJIT()
>             : TM(EngineBuilder().selectTarget()),
> DL(TM->createDataLayout()),
>               CompileLayer(ObjectLayer, SimpleCompiler(*TM)) {
>         llvm::sys::DynamicLibrary::LoadLibraryPermanently(nullptr);
>     }
>
>     TargetMachine &getTargetMachine() { return *TM; }
>
>     ModuleHandle addModule(std::unique_ptr<Module> M) {
>         // Build our symbol resolver:
>         // Lambda 1: Look back into the JIT itself to find symbols that
> are part of
>         //           the same "logical dylib".
>         // Lambda 2: Search for external symbols in the host process.
>         auto Resolver = createLambdaResolver(
>                 [&](const std::string &Name) {
>                     if (auto Sym = CompileLayer.findSymbol(Name, false))
>                         return Sym;
>                     return JITSymbol(nullptr);
>                 },
>                 [](const std::string &Name) {
>                     if (auto SymAddr =
>                             RTDyldMemoryManager::
> getSymbolAddressInProcess(Name))
>                         return JITSymbol(SymAddr,
> JITSymbolFlags::Exported);
>                     return JITSymbol(nullptr);
>                 });
>
>         // Build a singleton module set to hold our module.
>         std::vector<std::unique_ptr<Module>> Ms;
>         Ms.push_back(std::move(M));
>
>         // Add the set to the JIT with the resolver we created above and a
> newly
>         // created SectionMemoryManager.
>         return CompileLayer.addModuleSet(std::move(Ms),
>                                          make_unique<
> SectionMemoryManager>(),
>                                          std::move(Resolver));
>     }
>
>     JITSymbol findSymbol(const std::string Name) {
>         std::string MangledName;
>         raw_string_ostream MangledNameStream(MangledName);
>         Mangler::getNameWithPrefix(MangledNameStream, Name, DL);
>         return CompileLayer.findSymbol(MangledNameStream.str(), true);
>     }
>
>     void removeModule(ModuleHandle H) {
>         CompileLayer.removeModuleSet(H);
>     }
> };
>
> const std::string FUNC_NAME = "someFunction";
>
> void runTest() {
>     llvm::LLVMContext context;
>     llvm::IRBuilder<> irBuilder{context};
>     KaleidoscopeJIT jit;
>
>     auto module = std::make_unique<llvm::Module>("help", context);
>     module->setDataLayout(jit.getTargetMachine().createDataLayout());
>
>     auto function = llvm::cast<llvm::Function>(
> module->getOrInsertFunction(FUNC_NAME,
>
>  llvm::Type::getInt32Ty(context), nullptr));
>
>     auto block = llvm::BasicBlock::Create(context, "functionBody",
> function);
>     irBuilder.SetInsertPoint(block);
>
>     irBuilder.CreateRet(llvm::ConstantInt::get(context, llvm::APInt(32,
> 1, true)));
>     jit.addModule(std::move(module));
>
>     llvm::JITSymbol symbol = jit.findSymbol(FUNC_NAME);
>
>     //Just to ensure that the symbol is in fact valid (symbol evaluates to
> true during execution)
>     if(!symbol) {
>         throw std::runtime_error("Symbol not found");
>     }
>
>     //when uncommented, the throw statement does NOT cause a SIGSEGV.
>     //throw std::runtime_error("This should not crash.");
>     uint64_t ptr = symbol.getAddress();
>     //HOWEVER... a SIGSEGV occurs during stack-unwinding while throwing
> the exception below.
>     //Hence, the call to symbol.getAddress() must be causing some kind of
> memory corruption.
>     //My guess is that it's clobbering the stack.
>     throw std::runtime_error("This should not crash but does anyway.");
>
>     std::cout << "Ptr is " << ptr << "\n";
>
>     int (*someFuncPtr)() = reinterpret_cast<int (*)()>(ptr);
>     //int (*someFuncPtr)() = (int (*)())ptr;
>
>     int returnValue = someFuncPtr();
>
>     std::cout << "Return value is: " << returnValue << "\n";
>
> }
>
> int main(int argc, char **argv) {
>
>     llvm::InitializeNativeTarget();
>     llvm::InitializeAllAsmPrinters();
>
>     try {
>         runTest();
>
>         //NOTE:  if LLVM is compiled without -DLLVM_USE_SANITIZER:STRING=Address,
> the last throw in runTest() does not cause
>
>         //a SIGSEGV, however this throw will.
>
>         //throw std::runtime_error("This should not crash but does
> anyway.");
>     } catch(std::runtime_error &e) {
>         std::cout << "Exception caught: " << e.what() << "\n";
>     }
>
>     llvm::llvm_shutdown();
>     return 0;
> }
>
>
>
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