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authorAngelos Mouzakitis <a.mouzakitis@virtualopensystems.com>2023-10-10 14:33:42 +0000
committerAngelos Mouzakitis <a.mouzakitis@virtualopensystems.com>2023-10-10 14:33:42 +0000
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+# test_zeroize.gdb
+#
+# This file is part of Mbed TLS (https://tls.mbed.org)
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2018, Arm Limited, All Rights Reserved
+#
+# 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
+# "unecessary" 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.
+#
+# WARNING: There does not seem to be a mechanism in GDB scripts to set a
+# breakpoint at the end of a function (probably because there are a lot of
+# complications as function can have multiple exit points, etc). Therefore, it
+# was necessary to hard-code the line number of the breakpoint in the zeroize.c
+# test app. The assumption is that zeroize.c is a simple test app that does not
+# change often (as opposed to the actual library code), so the breakpoint line
+# number does not need to be updated often.
+
+set confirm off
+
+file ./programs/test/zeroize
+break zeroize.c:100
+
+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