EuroBSDCon 2018 and NetBSD sanitizers


October 01, 2018 posted by Kamil Rytarowski

I presented the state of NetBSD sanitizers during EuroBSDCon 2018 held in Bucharest, Romania.

I gave two talks, one covered userland sanitizers and the other one kernel sanitizers. Unfortunately video recordings from the conference are not available, but I've uploaded my slides online:

Besides participating in the conference and preparing for the travel and talks I've been researching the libunwind port to NetBSD and further integration of Lua. The libunwind port from the nongnu project has been approached to passing 22 out of 33 tests and the current blocker is the lack of signal trampoline handling or annotation. A signal trampoline is a special libc function, registered into the kernel, that is used as a helper routine to install and use signal handlers. Backtracing the function call stack is not trivial. We need to either annotate the assembly code in the trampoline with DWARF notes or handle it differently inside an unwinder.

I wrote a toy application using the newly created Lua binding for the curses(3) library. The process of writing the Lua bindings resulted in detecting various bugs in the native curses library. A majority of these bugs have been already fixed with aid of Roy Marples and Rin Okuyama, though they are still waiting for merge. I intend to keep working on the bindings in my spare time, but a shortcoming is that there are a lot of API functions (over 300!), and covering them all is time consuming process.

Meanwhile, I've made progress in the upstreaming of local LLVM patches. I've finally upstreamed to switch of indirect syscall (syscall(2)/__syscall(2)) to direct libc calls.

Plan for the next milestone

I will visit the GSoC Mentor Summit & MeetBSDCa in October (California, the U.S.). In the time besides the conference I will keep upstreaming local LLVM patches (almost 3000LOC to go!).

This work was sponsored by The NetBSD Foundation.

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