Subject: [RFC/PATCH RESEND -next 14/21] mm: slub: kasan: disable kasan when touching unaccessible memory

From: [email-masked] (Andrey Ryabinin)
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 11:37:56 +0400

On 07/15/14 10:04, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 03:30:08PM +0400, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
>> Some code in slub could validly touch memory marked by kasan as unaccessible.
>> Even though slub.c doesn't instrumented, functions called in it are instrumented,
>> so to avoid false positive reports such places are protected by
>> kasan_disable_local()/kasan_enable_local() calls.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <[email-masked]>
>> ---
>>  mm/slub.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++--
>>  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
>> index 6ddedf9..c8dbea7 100644
>> --- a/mm/slub.c
>> +++ b/mm/slub.c
>> @@ -560,8 +560,10 @@ static void print_tracking(struct kmem_cache *s, void *object)
>>  	if (!(s->flags & SLAB_STORE_USER))
>>  		return;
>>  
>> +	kasan_disable_local();
>>  	print_track("Allocated", get_track(s, object, TRACK_ALLOC));
>>  	print_track("Freed", get_track(s, object, TRACK_FREE));
>> +	kasan_enable_local();
> 
> I don't think that this is needed since print_track() doesn't call
> external function with object pointer. print_track() call pr_err(), but,
> before calling, it retrieve t->addrs[i] so memory access only occurs
> in slub.c.
> 
Agree.

>>  }
>>  
>>  static void print_page_info(struct page *page)
>> @@ -604,6 +606,8 @@ static void print_trailer(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page, u8 *p)
>>  	unsigned int off;	/* Offset of last byte */
>>  	u8 *addr = page_address(page);
>>  
>> +	kasan_disable_local();
>> +
>>  	print_tracking(s, p);
>>  
>>  	print_page_info(page);
>> @@ -632,6 +636,8 @@ static void print_trailer(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page, u8 *p)
>>  		/* Beginning of the filler is the free pointer */
>>  		print_section("Padding ", p + off, s->size - off);
>>  
>> +	kasan_enable_local();
>> +
>>  	dump_stack();
>>  }
> 
> And, I recommend that you put this hook on right place.
> At a glance, the problematic function is print_section() which have
> external function call, print_hex_dump(), with object pointer.
> If you disable kasan in print_section, all the below thing won't be
> needed, I guess.
> 

Nope, at least memchr_inv() call in slab_pad_check will be a problem.

I think putting disable/enable only where we strictly need them might be a problem for future maintenance of slub.
If someone is going to add a new function call somewhere, he must ensure that it this call won't be a problem
for kasan.

> Thanks.
> 
>>  
>> @@ -1012,6 +1018,8 @@ static noinline int alloc_debug_processing(struct kmem_cache *s,
>>  					struct page *page,
>>  					void *object, unsigned long addr)
>>  {
>> +
>> +	kasan_disable_local();
>>  	if (!check_slab(s, page))
>>  		goto bad;
>>  
>> @@ -1028,6 +1036,7 @@ static noinline int alloc_debug_processing(struct kmem_cache *s,
>>  		set_track(s, object, TRACK_ALLOC, addr);
>>  	trace(s, page, object, 1);
>>  	init_object(s, object, SLUB_RED_ACTIVE);
>> +	kasan_enable_local();
>>  	return 1;
>>  
>>  bad:
>> @@ -1041,6 +1050,7 @@ bad:
>>  		page->inuse = page->objects;
>>  		page->freelist = NULL;
>>  	}
>> +	kasan_enable_local();
>>  	return 0;
>>  }
>>  
>> @@ -1052,6 +1062,7 @@ static noinline struct kmem_cache_node *free_debug_processing(
>>  
>>  	spin_lock_irqsave(&n->list_lock, *flags);
>>  	slab_lock(page);
>> +	kasan_disable_local();
>>  
>>  	if (!check_slab(s, page))
>>  		goto fail;
>> @@ -1088,6 +1099,7 @@ static noinline struct kmem_cache_node *free_debug_processing(
>>  	trace(s, page, object, 0);
>>  	init_object(s, object, SLUB_RED_INACTIVE);
>>  out:
>> +	kasan_enable_local();
>>  	slab_unlock(page);
>>  	/*
>>  	 * Keep node_lock to preserve integrity
>> @@ -1096,6 +1108,7 @@ out:
>>  	return n;
>>  
>>  fail:
>> +	kasan_enable_local();
>>  	slab_unlock(page);
>>  	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&n->list_lock, *flags);
>>  	slab_fix(s, "Object at 0x%p not freed", object);
>> @@ -1371,8 +1384,11 @@ static void setup_object(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page,
>>  				void *object)
>>  {
>>  	setup_object_debug(s, page, object);
>> -	if (unlikely(s->ctor))
>> +	if (unlikely(s->ctor)) {
>> +		kasan_disable_local();
>>  		s->ctor(object);
>> +		kasan_enable_local();
>> +	}
>>  }
>>  static struct page *new_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags, int node)
>> @@ -1425,11 +1441,12 @@ static void __free_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page)
>>  
>>  	if (kmem_cache_debug(s)) {
>>  		void *p;
>> -
>> +		kasan_disable_local();
>>  		slab_pad_check(s, page);
>>  		for_each_object(p, s, page_address(page),
>>  						page->objects)
>>  			check_object(s, page, p, SLUB_RED_INACTIVE);
>> +		kasan_enable_local();
>>  	}
>>  
>>  	kmemcheck_free_shadow(page, compound_order(page));
>> -- 
>> 1.8.5.5
>>
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