# test_zeroize.gdb # # Copyright The Mbed TLS Contributors # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 OR GPL-2.0-or-later # # This file is provided under the Apache License 2.0, or the # GNU General Public License v2.0 or later. # # ********** # Apache License 2.0: # # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may # not use this file except in compliance with the License. # You may obtain a copy of the License at # # http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 # # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT # WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and # limitations under the License. # # ********** # # ********** # GNU General Public License v2.0 or later: # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along # with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., # 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. # # ********** # # Purpose # # Run a test using the debugger to check that the mbedtls_platform_zeroize() # function in platform_util.h is not being optimized out by the compiler. To do # so, the script loads the test program at programs/test/zeroize.c and sets a # breakpoint at the last return statement in main(). When the breakpoint is # hit, the debugger manually checks the contents to be zeroized and checks that # it is actually cleared. # # The mbedtls_platform_zeroize() test is debugger driven because there does not # seem to be a mechanism to reliably check whether the zeroize calls are being # eliminated by compiler optimizations from within the compiled program. The # problem is that a compiler would typically remove what it considers to be # "unnecessary" assignments as part of redundant code elimination. To identify # such code, the compilar will create some form dependency graph between # reads and writes to variables (among other situations). It will then use this # data structure to remove redundant code that does not have an impact on the # program's observable behavior. In the case of mbedtls_platform_zeroize(), an # intelligent compiler could determine that this function clears a block of # memory that is not accessed later in the program, so removing the call to # mbedtls_platform_zeroize() does not have an observable behavior. However, # inserting a test after a call to mbedtls_platform_zeroize() to check whether # the block of memory was correctly zeroed would force the compiler to not # eliminate the mbedtls_platform_zeroize() call. If this does not occur, then # the compiler potentially has a bug. # # Note: This test requires that the test program is compiled with -g3. set confirm off file ./programs/test/zeroize search GDB_BREAK_HERE break $_ set args ./programs/test/zeroize.c run set $i = 0 set $len = sizeof(buf) set $buf = buf while $i < $len if $buf[$i++] != 0 echo The buffer at was not zeroized\n quit 1 end end echo The buffer was correctly zeroized\n continue if $_exitcode != 0 echo The program did not terminate correctly\n quit 1 end quit 0