Re: Re: NOP ATHROW hack defeated !

Eric Bruneton <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.objectweb.asm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
01/05/2011 16:16, Rémi Forax wrote:
> On 05/01/2011 11:09 AM, Eric Bruneton wrote:
>> 30/04/2011 10:20, Eric Bruneton wrote:
>>> 29/04/2011 03:04, Rémi Forax wrote:
>>>> Charles Nutter (a JRuby guy) was able to generate a code that defeat
>>>> the infamous NOP ... ATHROW hack.
>>>>
>>>> see http://asm.ow2.org/doc/developer-guide.html#deadcode
>>>> for the background.
>>>>
>>>> Basically, when a code is dead, not reachable, ASM replaces the
>>>> offending code by
>>>> NOP ... ATHROW and generate a dedicated stackmap: []
>>>> [java/lang/Throwable].
>>>> But if the unreachable code is in a try/catch, we create a path
>>>> where no
>>>> local variable
>>>> are available anymore. So the split verifier will reject the
>>>> bytecode if
>>>> a local variable is used in the exception handler of the try/catch.
>>>>
>>>> The program below generates a bytecode which is rejected by the split
>>>> verifier.
>>>> [forax@localhost asm4-test]$ java deadcode
>>>> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.VerifyError: Stack map does not
>>>> match the one at exception handler 7 in method
>>>> deadcode.foo(Ljava/lang/Object;)V at offset 3
>>>> at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method)
>>>> at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:2440)
>>>> at java.lang.Class.getMethod0(Class.java:2683)
>>>> at java.lang.Class.getMethod(Class.java:1618)
>>>> at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.getMainMethod(LauncherHelper.java:484)
>>>> at
>>>> sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.checkAndLoadMain(LauncherHelper.java:476)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Eric, do you see a solution for that ?
>>>
>>> I think we can find which locals to put in the stackmap frame generated
>>> for a dead block by using the locals from the first frame of the
>>> innermost exception handler for this block(*) (if any). Using the
>>> innermost handler is necessary to get the most specific types for these
>>> locals (the other handlers will necessarily have these types or super
>>> types of these types in their stackmap frames, since they handle more
>>> code). Also, since dead blocks are handled after the fix point algorithm
>>> is finished, we have the final frames for the exception handlers at this
>>> point.
>>>
>>> The only problem is that exception handlers do not have to be properly
>>> nested (nothing enforces this in the specification, although compilers
>>> always generate nested handlers because Java try/catch are nested by
>>> construction). And in this case the "innermost handler" is not well
>>> defined.
>>
>> there is another solution, which is simpler and works in all cases (I
>> think): remove the exception handlers for deadcode (see attached patch).
>>
>> Eric
>
> It seems the patch was too shy to show up :)

oups! here it is

Eric
patch.txt (text/plain, 2.7 KB)
Index: org/objectweb/asm/Handler.java
===================================================================
--- org/objectweb/asm/Handler.java	(revision 1498)
+++ org/objectweb/asm/Handler.java	(working copy)
@@ -67,4 +67,52 @@
      * Next exception handler block info.
      */
     Handler next;
+    
+    /**
+     * Removes the range between start and end from the given exception
+     * handlers.
+     * 
+     * @param h an exception handler list.
+     * @param start the start of the range to be removed.
+     * @param end the end of the range to be removed. Maybe null.
+     * @return the exception handler list with the start-end range removed.
+     */
+    static Handler remove(Handler h, Label start, Label end) {
+        if (h == null) {
+            return null;
+        } else {
+            h.next = remove(h.next, start, end);
+        }
+        int hstart = h.start.position;
+        int hend = h.end.position;
+        int s = start.position;
+        int e = end == null ? Integer.MAX_VALUE : end.position;
+        // if [hstart,hend[ and [s,e[ intervals intersect...
+        if (s < hend && e > hstart) {
+            boolean i = s <= hstart;
+            boolean j = e >= hend;
+            if (i && j) {
+                // [hstart,hend[ fully included in [s,e[, h removed
+                h = h.next;
+            } else if (i && !j) {
+                // [hstart,hend[ minus [s,e[ = [hstart,e[
+                h.end = end;
+            } else if (!i && j) {
+                // [hstart,hend[ minus [s,e[ = [s,hend[
+                h.start = start;
+            } else { // !i && !j
+                // [hstart,hend[ minus [s,e[ = [hstart,s[ + [e,hend[
+                Handler g = new Handler();
+                g.start = end;
+                g.end = h.end;
+                g.handler = h.handler;
+                g.desc = h.desc;
+                g.type = h.type;
+                g.next = h.next;
+                h.end = start;
+                h.next = g;
+            }
+        }
+        return h;
+    }
 }
Index: org/objectweb/asm/MethodWriter.java
===================================================================
--- org/objectweb/asm/MethodWriter.java	(revision 1498)
+++ org/objectweb/asm/MethodWriter.java	(working copy)
@@ -1366,6 +1366,8 @@
                         frame[frameIndex++] = Frame.OBJECT
                                 | cw.addType("java/lang/Throwable");
                         endFrame();
+                        // removes the start-end range from the exception handlers
+                        firstHandler = Handler.remove(firstHandler, l, k);
                     }
                 }
                 l = l.successor;
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