kotest fix for mips
kotest refused to count string literals for MIPS kernel modules. Reason was in that gcc does not put sizes/object types of unnamed string literals - it looks in asm files like$LC0: .ascii...
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stack frames size in DWARF
As you might suspect, the stack size in the kernel is quite meager so it's very important to know how much of stack occupy your driver. So I conducted inhumane experiments on my own driver lkcd to...
View Articlefunction stack size in GCC
Let's continue our wandering in endless dead endGCC has struct stack_usage and even field su inside struct function. And this last is accessible as global var cfun. So it's should be easy to patch...
View Articleframe sizes in dwarfdump
Add today dumping of stack frame sizes to my dwarfdump (well, where they are exists). Format of .debug_frame section obviously was invented by martian misantrophes so patch is huge and uglySample of...
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dumping ebpf kind_ops
Very funny article about (im)possible future of ebpf. Given that right now 8 small BPF scripts with only 7 opcodes occupy 1Mb whole kernel on ebpf will require exabytes of RAM, he-heAnyway there is...
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ebpf map as communication channel
Recently I've done small research to repurpose overvalued ebpf into something useful and even achieved some modest results. It seems that at least you can use ebpf maps in your old-school native...
View Articlemoving string literals to discardable sections
As kotest shows we can achieve reduction in the size of non-discardable sections of LKMs (and thus reduce total size of memory occupied by kernel) with moving constants used in functions from...
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crowdstrike
since everyone (including"professional C++ programmers") has already written about so I will also write it down (for memory)This was not first time: proofOfficial report is very vague but we can...
View Articlebpf_verifier_ops
Lets dissect some typical ebpf spyware. It sets up uprobes onSSL_read_exSSL_readSSL_write_exSSL_writegotls_write_register gotls_read_registergotls_exit_read_registerand uses bpf functions...
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hidden executable pages in linux kernel
Standard method to find rootkits like this (or like this) is cross-scanning PTEs of memory without NX bit, then extract pages belonging to LKMs - thus in set difference we will gather hidden executable...
View Articlehidden executable pages in linux kernel, part 2
In part 1 I've described how memory managed by hardware. Now lets dig into how kernel sees memory. Not surprisingly that we should check the same structures that malicious drivers update while...
View Articlebug in gcc?
It seems that gcc not always put COMPONENT_REF when access fields of structures passed by reference. For example I add today simple static function append_name(aux_type_clutch&clutch, const char...
View ArticleTracking arguments of functions in gcc
I continuing to improve my gcc plugin for collecting cross-references: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6& 7. On this week I decided to see if I can extract source of complex types like records and most prominent...
View Articlegcc plugin to collect cross-references, part 9
Lets extract some useful results from my gcc plugin for collecting cross-references: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7& 8. I've noticed that plugin worked unbearably slowly on big source files (like compiling...
View ArticleTLS in gcc RTL
Lets check how TLS looks like in RTL. I wrote simple test:(insn 29 8 10 3 (set (reg:SI 0 ax [orig:82 _1 ] [82]) (mem/c:SI (const:DI (unspec:DI [ (symbol_ref:DI...
View Articlebinding c++ objects to perl
Sure there are lots of ways to do this (as usually in Perl: "there's more than one way to do it"), just to name few:swig - result looks not native and clumsy, also you need to make facade-like...
View Articleperl module for DWARF debug info parsing
I've made perl binding of my c++ dwarf dumper. Supports 64/32 bit, no DWO, don't sure if it can load arbitrary object files but at least can parse LKM - I even added relocations processingMaybe one day...
View Articleperl module for powerpc disasm
It seems that there are no good open-source disasm for PPC except Capstone. And it even has perl binding - unfortunately it can extract only basic fields like opcode and text but no operands for...
View Articleptx internals
It seems that syntax of PTX is undocumented - at least I was unable to find actual BNF grammar or reference implementation. Grammar from antlr project is greatly out-dated and don't contain...
View Articlenvidia sass disassembler
Couple weeks ago I made decryptor to extract from nvdisasm so called "machine descriptions" (MD) (btw nvdisasm v12 uses lz4 compression library, so I made yet another decryptor + results). And after...
View Articlenvidia sass disassembler, part 2
Lets continue explore "machine descriptions" - in this time try to understand how to make format output more similar to genuine nvdisasmFor example format for one of variant I2F looks like: FORMAT...
View Articlenvidia sass disassembler, part 3
It looks like this rabbit hole goes much deeperSome const banks does not have ConstBankAddressX:CX:Sb[UniformRegister:URb][UImm(16)*:Sb_offset]BITS_6_37_32_Ra_URb=URbBITS_14_53_40_Sb_offset=Sb_offset...
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nvidia sass disassembler, part 4
I've made native sass disasm - just adding c++ codegen (can be produced by ead.pl with -C option). It works via dynamic loading of right disasm module - see list of supported architectures in map...
View Articlenvidia sass disassembler, part 5
Previous parts: 1, 2, 3& 4I've finally add native rendering for instructions - actually just rewrite from perl terrible function make_inst. Because in output typically rendering only small fraction...
View Articleptx instructions emitting by nvidia compiler
I recently became curious what exactly ptx instructions can produce nvidia compiler - like if it uses something totally undocumented or vice versa - some official ptx instructions are never generated...
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