[PATCH v3] mm: use compare-exchange operation to set KASAN page tag

From: Peter Collingbourne
Date: Wed Jan 19 2022 - 21:02:07 EST


It has been reported that the tag setting operation on newly-allocated
pages can cause the page flags to be corrupted when performed
concurrently with other flag updates as a result of the use of
non-atomic operations. Fix the problem by using a compare-exchange
loop to update the tag.

Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/I456b24a2b9067d93968d43b4bb3351c0cec63101
Fixes: 2813b9c02962 ("kasan, mm, arm64: tag non slab memory allocated via pagealloc")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
v3:
- use try_cmpxchg() as suggested by Peter Zijlstra on another
patch

v2:
- use READ_ONCE()

include/linux/mm.h | 17 ++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index c768a7c81b0b..87473fe52c3f 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1531,11 +1531,18 @@ static inline u8 page_kasan_tag(const struct page *page)

static inline void page_kasan_tag_set(struct page *page, u8 tag)
{
- if (kasan_enabled()) {
- tag ^= 0xff;
- page->flags &= ~(KASAN_TAG_MASK << KASAN_TAG_PGSHIFT);
- page->flags |= (tag & KASAN_TAG_MASK) << KASAN_TAG_PGSHIFT;
- }
+ unsigned long old_flags, flags;
+
+ if (!kasan_enabled())
+ return;
+
+ tag ^= 0xff;
+ old_flags = READ_ONCE(page->flags);
+ do {
+ flags = old_flags;
+ flags &= ~(KASAN_TAG_MASK << KASAN_TAG_PGSHIFT);
+ flags |= (tag & KASAN_TAG_MASK) << KASAN_TAG_PGSHIFT;
+ } while (unlikely(!try_cmpxchg(&page->flags, &old_flags, flags)));
}

static inline void page_kasan_tag_reset(struct page *page)
--
2.34.1.703.g22d0c6ccf7-goog