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

From: Brendan Higgins
Date: Tue Feb 25 2020 - 20:19:36 EST


On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 4:46 PM Patricia Alfonso
<trishalfonso@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Make KASAN run on User Mode Linux on x86_64.
>
> Depends on Constructor support in UML - "[RFC PATCH] um:
> implement CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS for modules"
> (https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1234551/) by Johannes Berg.
>
> The location of the KASAN shadow memory, starting at
> KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET, can be configured using the
> KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET option. UML uses roughly 18TB of address
> space, and KASAN requires 1/8th of this. The default location of
> this offset is 0x7fff8000 as suggested by Dmitry Vyukov. There is
> usually enough free space at this location; however, it is a config
> option so that it can be easily changed if needed.
>
> The UML-specific KASAN initializer uses mmap to map
> the roughly 2.25TB of shadow memory to the location defined by
> KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET. kasan_init() utilizes constructors to initialize
> KASAN before main().
>
> Disable stack instrumentation on UML via KASAN_STACK config option to
> avoid false positive KASAN reports.
>
> Signed-off-by: Patricia Alfonso <trishalfonso@xxxxxxxxxx>

A couple of minor nits (well one nit and one question), but overall
this looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> arch/um/Kconfig | 13 +++++++++++++
> arch/um/Makefile | 6 ++++++
> arch/um/include/asm/common.lds.S | 1 +
> arch/um/include/asm/kasan.h | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/um/kernel/dyn.lds.S | 5 ++++-
> arch/um/kernel/mem.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
> arch/um/os-Linux/mem.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/um/os-Linux/user_syms.c | 4 ++--
> arch/x86/um/Makefile | 3 ++-
> arch/x86/um/vdso/Makefile | 3 +++
> lib/Kconfig.kasan | 2 +-
> 11 files changed, 104 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 arch/um/include/asm/kasan.h
>
> diff --git a/arch/um/Kconfig b/arch/um/Kconfig
> index 0917f8443c28..fb2ad1fb05fd 100644
> --- a/arch/um/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/um/Kconfig
> @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ config UML
> select ARCH_HAS_KCOV
> select ARCH_NO_PREEMPT
> select HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
> + select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN if X86_64
> select HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
> select HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS
> select HAVE_UID16
> @@ -200,6 +201,18 @@ config UML_TIME_TRAVEL_SUPPORT
>
> It is safe to say Y, but you probably don't need this.
>
> +config KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET
> + hex
> + depends on KASAN
> + default 0x7fff8000

nit: It looks like you chose the default that Dmitry suggested. Some
explanation of this in the help would probably be good.

> + help
> + This is the offset at which the ~2.25TB of shadow memory is
> + mapped and used by KASAN for memory debugging. This can be any
> + address that has at least KASAN_SHADOW_SIZE(total address space divided
> + by 8) amount of space so that the KASAN shadow memory does not conflict
> + with anything. The default is 0x7fff8000, as it fits into immediate of
> + most instructions.
> +
> endmenu

[...]

> diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.kasan b/lib/Kconfig.kasan
> index 81f5464ea9e1..5b54f3c9a741 100644
> --- a/lib/Kconfig.kasan
> +++ b/lib/Kconfig.kasan
> @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ config KASAN_STACK_ENABLE
>
> config KASAN_STACK
> int
> - default 1 if KASAN_STACK_ENABLE || CC_IS_GCC
> + default 1 if (KASAN_STACK_ENABLE || CC_IS_GCC) && !UML

Up to the KASAN people, but I think you can probably move this to
arch/um/Kconfig. There is some advantage to having all the UML
specific Kconfigery in arch/um/Kconfig, but there are also already a
lot of things that specify !UML outside of arch/um/.

> default 0
>
> config KASAN_S390_4_LEVEL_PAGING
> --
> 2.25.0.265.gbab2e86ba0-goog
>