[PATCH v2 0/2] kasan: Fix metadata detection for KASAN_HW_TAGS

From: Vincenzo Frascino
Date: Thu Jan 21 2021 - 10:43:59 EST


With the introduction of KASAN_HW_TAGS, kasan_report() currently assumes
that every location in memory has valid metadata associated. This is due
to the fact that addr_has_metadata() returns always true.

As a consequence of this, an invalid address (e.g. NULL pointer address)
passed to kasan_report() when KASAN_HW_TAGS is enabled, leads to a
kernel panic.

Example below, based on arm64:

==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: invalid-access in 0x0
Read at addr 0000000000000000 by task swapper/0/1
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000
Mem abort info:
ESR = 0x96000004
EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
SET = 0, FnV = 0
EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
Data abort info:
ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004
CM = 0, WnR = 0

...

Call trace:
mte_get_mem_tag+0x24/0x40
kasan_report+0x1a4/0x410
alsa_sound_last_init+0x8c/0xa4
do_one_initcall+0x50/0x1b0
kernel_init_freeable+0x1d4/0x23c
kernel_init+0x14/0x118
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x34
Code: d65f03c0 9000f021 f9428021 b6cfff61 (d9600000)
---[ end trace 377c8bb45bdd3a1a ]---
hrtimer: interrupt took 48694256 ns
note: swapper/0[1] exited with preempt_count 1
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b
SMP: stopping secondary CPUs
Kernel Offset: 0x35abaf140000 from 0xffff800010000000
PHYS_OFFSET: 0x40000000
CPU features: 0x0a7e0152,61c0a030
Memory Limit: none
---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b ]---

This series fixes the behavior of addr_has_metadata() that now returns
true only when the address is valid.

Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@xxxxxxx>

Vincenzo Frascino (2):
arm64: Fix kernel address detection of __is_lm_address()
kasan: Add explicit preconditions to kasan_report()

arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h | 2 +-
mm/kasan/kasan.h | 2 +-
mm/kasan/report.c | 7 +++++++
3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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