Re: [PATCH 32/35] kasan, arm64: print report from tag fault handler

From: Vincenzo Frascino
Date: Thu Aug 27 2020 - 08:34:39 EST




On 8/27/20 11:48 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 07:27:14PM +0200, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
>> index c62c8ba85c0e..cf00b3942564 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
>> @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
>> #include <linux/mm.h>
>> #include <linux/hardirq.h>
>> #include <linux/init.h>
>> +#include <linux/kasan.h>
>> #include <linux/kprobes.h>
>> #include <linux/uaccess.h>
>> #include <linux/page-flags.h>
>> @@ -314,11 +315,19 @@ static void report_tag_fault(unsigned long addr, unsigned int esr,
>> {
>> bool is_write = ((esr & ESR_ELx_WNR) >> ESR_ELx_WNR_SHIFT) != 0;
>>
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_KASAN_HW_TAGS
>> + /*
>> + * SAS bits aren't set for all faults reported in EL1, so we can't
>> + * find out access size.
>> + */
>> + kasan_report(addr, 0, is_write, regs->pc);
>> +#else
>> pr_alert("Memory Tagging Extension Fault in %pS\n", (void *)regs->pc);
>> pr_alert(" %s at address %lx\n", is_write ? "Write" : "Read", addr);
>> pr_alert(" Pointer tag: [%02x], memory tag: [%02x]\n",
>> mte_get_ptr_tag(addr),
>> mte_get_mem_tag((void *)addr));
>> +#endif
>> }
>
> More dead code. So what's the point of keeping the pr_alert() introduced
> earlier? CONFIG_KASAN_HW_TAGS is always on for in-kernel MTE. If MTE is
> disabled, this function isn't called anyway.
>

I agree we should remove them (togheter with '#ifdef CONFIG_KASAN_HW_TAGS') or
integrate them with the kasan code if still meaningful.

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Regards,
Vincenzo