Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 22/33] kasan, slab: make freelist stored without tags

From: Andrey Konovalov
Date: Wed Mar 13 2019 - 15:18:43 EST


On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 8:16 PM Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> [ Upstream commit 51dedad06b5f6c3eea7ec1069631b1ef7796912a ]

Hi Sasha,

None of the 4.9, 4.14, 4.19 or 4.20 have tag-based KASAN, so
backporting these 3 KASAN related patches doesn't make much sense.

Thanks!


>
> Similarly to "kasan, slub: move kasan_poison_slab hook before
> page_address", move kasan_poison_slab() before alloc_slabmgmt(), which
> calls page_address(), to make page_address() return value to be
> non-tagged. This, combined with calling kasan_reset_tag() for off-slab
> slab management object, leads to freelist being stored non-tagged.
>
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/dfb53b44a4d00de3879a05a9f04c1f55e584f7a1.1550602886.git.andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Evgeniy Stepanov <eugenis@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Kostya Serebryany <kcc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/slab.c | 9 ++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
> index 409631e49295..766043dd3f8e 100644
> --- a/mm/slab.c
> +++ b/mm/slab.c
> @@ -2378,6 +2378,7 @@ static void *alloc_slabmgmt(struct kmem_cache *cachep,
> /* Slab management obj is off-slab. */
> freelist = kmem_cache_alloc_node(cachep->freelist_cache,
> local_flags, nodeid);
> + freelist = kasan_reset_tag(freelist);
> if (!freelist)
> return NULL;
> } else {
> @@ -2690,6 +2691,13 @@ static struct page *cache_grow_begin(struct kmem_cache *cachep,
>
> offset *= cachep->colour_off;
>
> + /*
> + * Call kasan_poison_slab() before calling alloc_slabmgmt(), so
> + * page_address() in the latter returns a non-tagged pointer,
> + * as it should be for slab pages.
> + */
> + kasan_poison_slab(page);
> +
> /* Get slab management. */
> freelist = alloc_slabmgmt(cachep, page, offset,
> local_flags & ~GFP_CONSTRAINT_MASK, page_node);
> @@ -2698,7 +2706,6 @@ static struct page *cache_grow_begin(struct kmem_cache *cachep,
>
> slab_map_pages(cachep, page, freelist);
>
> - kasan_poison_slab(page);
> cache_init_objs(cachep, page);
>
> if (gfpflags_allow_blocking(local_flags))
> --
> 2.19.1
>