[PATCH 21/31] kasan, fork: don't tag stacks allocated with vmalloc

From: andrey . konovalov
Date: Tue Nov 30 2021 - 17:08:18 EST


From: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>

Once tag-based KASAN modes start tagging vmalloc() allocations,
kernel stacks will start getting tagged if CONFIG_VMAP_STACK is enabled.

Reset the tag of kernel stack pointers after allocation.

For SW_TAGS KASAN, when CONFIG_KASAN_STACK is enabled, the
instrumentation can't handle the sp register being tagged.

For HW_TAGS KASAN, there's no instrumentation-related issues. However,
the impact of having a tagged SP pointer needs to be properly evaluated,
so keep it non-tagged for now.

Note, that the memory for the stack allocation still gets tagged to
catch vmalloc-into-stack out-of-bounds accesses.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/fork.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 3244cc56b697..062d1484ef42 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -253,6 +253,7 @@ static unsigned long *alloc_thread_stack_node(struct task_struct *tsk, int node)
* so cache the vm_struct.
*/
if (stack) {
+ stack = kasan_reset_tag(stack);
tsk->stack_vm_area = find_vm_area(stack);
tsk->stack = stack;
}
--
2.25.1