Re: [PATCH v4 3/6] kasan: print timer and workqueue stack

From: Alexander Potapenko
Date: Thu Sep 24 2020 - 07:48:26 EST


On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 6:05 AM Walter Wu <walter-zh.wu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The aux_stack[2] is reused to record the call_rcu() call stack,
> timer init call stack, and enqueuing work call stacks. So that
> we need to change the auxiliary stack title for common title,
> print them in KASAN report.
>
> Signed-off-by: Walter Wu <walter-zh.wu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> v2:
> - Thanks for Marco suggestion.
> - We modify aux stack title name in KASAN report
> in order to print call_rcu()/timer/workqueue stack.
>
> ---
> mm/kasan/report.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/kasan/report.c b/mm/kasan/report.c
> index 4f49fa6cd1aa..886809d0a8dd 100644
> --- a/mm/kasan/report.c
> +++ b/mm/kasan/report.c
> @@ -183,12 +183,12 @@ static void describe_object(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object,
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC
> if (alloc_info->aux_stack[0]) {
> - pr_err("Last call_rcu():\n");
> + pr_err("Last potentially related work creation:\n");

This doesn't have to be a work creation (expect more callers of
kasan_record_aux_stack() in the future), so maybe change the wording
here to "Last potentially related auxiliary stack"?