Re: [RFC PATCH] UML: add support for KASAN under x86_64

From: Dmitry Vyukov
Date: Thu Jan 16 2020 - 03:53:07 EST


> +void kasan_init(void)
> +{
> + kasan_map_memory((void *)KASAN_SHADOW_START, KASAN_SHADOW_SIZE);
> +
> + // unpoison the kernel text which is form uml_physmem -> uml_reserved
> + kasan_unpoison_shadow((void *)uml_physmem, physmem_size);
> +
> + // unpoison the vmalloc region, which is start_vm -> end_vm
> + kasan_unpoison_shadow((void *)start_vm, (end_vm - start_vm + 1));
> +
> + init_task.kasan_depth = 0;
> + pr_info("KernelAddressSanitizer initialized\n");
> +}

Was this tested with stack instrumentation? Stack instrumentation
changes what shadow is being read/written and when. We don't need to
get it working right now, but if it does not work it would be nice to
restrict the setting and leave some comment traces for future
generations.