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<title>linux-stable.git/include/linux/kasan.h, branch v5.5.8</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>kasan: fix crashes on access to memory mapped by vm_map_ram()</title>
<updated>2019-12-18T04:59:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrey Ryabinin</name>
<email>aryabinin@virtuozzo.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-18T04:51:38+00:00</published>
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With CONFIG_KASAN_VMALLOC=y any use of memory obtained via vm_map_ram()
will crash because there is no shadow backing that memory.

Instead of sprinkling additional kasan_populate_vmalloc() calls all over
the vmalloc code, move it into alloc_vmap_area(). This will fix
vm_map_ram() and simplify the code a bit.

[aryabinin@virtuozzo.com: v2]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191205095942.1761-1-aryabinin@virtuozzo.comLink: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191204204534.32202-1-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com
Fixes: 3c5c3cfb9ef4 ("kasan: support backing vmalloc space with real shadow memory")
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Cc: Qian Cai &lt;cai@lca.pw&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
With CONFIG_KASAN_VMALLOC=y any use of memory obtained via vm_map_ram()
will crash because there is no shadow backing that memory.

Instead of sprinkling additional kasan_populate_vmalloc() calls all over
the vmalloc code, move it into alloc_vmap_area(). This will fix
vm_map_ram() and simplify the code a bit.

[aryabinin@virtuozzo.com: v2]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191205095942.1761-1-aryabinin@virtuozzo.comLink: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191204204534.32202-1-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com
Fixes: 3c5c3cfb9ef4 ("kasan: support backing vmalloc space with real shadow memory")
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Cc: Qian Cai &lt;cai@lca.pw&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kasan: support backing vmalloc space with real shadow memory</title>
<updated>2019-12-01T20:59:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Axtens</name>
<email>dja@axtens.net</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-01T01:54:50+00:00</published>
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Patch series "kasan: support backing vmalloc space with real shadow
memory", v11.

Currently, vmalloc space is backed by the early shadow page.  This means
that kasan is incompatible with VMAP_STACK.

This series provides a mechanism to back vmalloc space with real,
dynamically allocated memory.  I have only wired up x86, because that's
the only currently supported arch I can work with easily, but it's very
easy to wire up other architectures, and it appears that there is some
work-in-progress code to do this on arm64 and s390.

This has been discussed before in the context of VMAP_STACK:
 - https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202009
 - https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/7/22/198
 - https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/7/19/822

In terms of implementation details:

Most mappings in vmalloc space are small, requiring less than a full
page of shadow space.  Allocating a full shadow page per mapping would
therefore be wasteful.  Furthermore, to ensure that different mappings
use different shadow pages, mappings would have to be aligned to
KASAN_SHADOW_SCALE_SIZE * PAGE_SIZE.

Instead, share backing space across multiple mappings.  Allocate a
backing page when a mapping in vmalloc space uses a particular page of
the shadow region.  This page can be shared by other vmalloc mappings
later on.

We hook in to the vmap infrastructure to lazily clean up unused shadow
memory.

Testing with test_vmalloc.sh on an x86 VM with 2 vCPUs shows that:

 - Turning on KASAN, inline instrumentation, without vmalloc, introuduces
   a 4.1x-4.2x slowdown in vmalloc operations.

 - Turning this on introduces the following slowdowns over KASAN:
     * ~1.76x slower single-threaded (test_vmalloc.sh performance)
     * ~2.18x slower when both cpus are performing operations
       simultaneously (test_vmalloc.sh sequential_test_order=1)

This is unfortunate but given that this is a debug feature only, not the
end of the world.  The benchmarks are also a stress-test for the vmalloc
subsystem: they're not indicative of an overall 2x slowdown!

This patch (of 4):

Hook into vmalloc and vmap, and dynamically allocate real shadow memory
to back the mappings.

Most mappings in vmalloc space are small, requiring less than a full
page of shadow space.  Allocating a full shadow page per mapping would
therefore be wasteful.  Furthermore, to ensure that different mappings
use different shadow pages, mappings would have to be aligned to
KASAN_SHADOW_SCALE_SIZE * PAGE_SIZE.

Instead, share backing space across multiple mappings.  Allocate a
backing page when a mapping in vmalloc space uses a particular page of
the shadow region.  This page can be shared by other vmalloc mappings
later on.

We hook in to the vmap infrastructure to lazily clean up unused shadow
memory.

To avoid the difficulties around swapping mappings around, this code
expects that the part of the shadow region that covers the vmalloc space
will not be covered by the early shadow page, but will be left unmapped.
This will require changes in arch-specific code.

This allows KASAN with VMAP_STACK, and may be helpful for architectures
that do not have a separate module space (e.g.  powerpc64, which I am
currently working on).  It also allows relaxing the module alignment
back to PAGE_SIZE.

Testing with test_vmalloc.sh on an x86 VM with 2 vCPUs shows that:

 - Turning on KASAN, inline instrumentation, without vmalloc, introuduces
   a 4.1x-4.2x slowdown in vmalloc operations.

 - Turning this on introduces the following slowdowns over KASAN:
     * ~1.76x slower single-threaded (test_vmalloc.sh performance)
     * ~2.18x slower when both cpus are performing operations
       simultaneously (test_vmalloc.sh sequential_test_order=3D1)

This is unfortunate but given that this is a debug feature only, not the
end of the world.

The full benchmark results are:

Performance

                              No KASAN      KASAN original x baseline  KASAN vmalloc x baseline    x KASAN

fix_size_alloc_test             662004            11404956      17.23       19144610      28.92       1.68
full_fit_alloc_test             710950            12029752      16.92       13184651      18.55       1.10
long_busy_list_alloc_test      9431875            43990172       4.66       82970178       8.80       1.89
random_size_alloc_test         5033626            23061762       4.58       47158834       9.37       2.04
fix_align_alloc_test           1252514            15276910      12.20       31266116      24.96       2.05
random_size_align_alloc_te     1648501            14578321       8.84       25560052      15.51       1.75
align_shift_alloc_test             147                 830       5.65           5692      38.72       6.86
pcpu_alloc_test                  80732              125520       1.55         140864       1.74       1.12
Total Cycles              119240774314        763211341128       6.40  1390338696894      11.66       1.82

Sequential, 2 cpus

                              No KASAN      KASAN original x baseline  KASAN vmalloc x baseline    x KASAN

fix_size_alloc_test            1423150            14276550      10.03       27733022      19.49       1.94
full_fit_alloc_test            1754219            14722640       8.39       15030786       8.57       1.02
long_busy_list_alloc_test     11451858            52154973       4.55      107016027       9.34       2.05
random_size_alloc_test         5989020            26735276       4.46       68885923      11.50       2.58
fix_align_alloc_test           2050976            20166900       9.83       50491675      24.62       2.50
random_size_align_alloc_te     2858229            17971700       6.29       38730225      13.55       2.16
align_shift_alloc_test             405                6428      15.87          26253      64.82       4.08
pcpu_alloc_test                 127183              151464       1.19         216263       1.70       1.43
Total Cycles               54181269392        308723699764       5.70   650772566394      12.01       2.11
fix_size_alloc_test            1420404            14289308      10.06       27790035      19.56       1.94
full_fit_alloc_test            1736145            14806234       8.53       15274301       8.80       1.03
long_busy_list_alloc_test     11404638            52270785       4.58      107550254       9.43       2.06
random_size_alloc_test         6017006            26650625       4.43       68696127      11.42       2.58
fix_align_alloc_test           2045504            20280985       9.91       50414862      24.65       2.49
random_size_align_alloc_te     2845338            17931018       6.30       38510276      13.53       2.15
align_shift_alloc_test             472                3760       7.97           9656      20.46       2.57
pcpu_alloc_test                 118643              132732       1.12         146504       1.23       1.10
Total Cycles               54040011688        309102805492       5.72   651325675652      12.05       2.11

[dja@axtens.net: fixups]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191120052719.7201-1-dja@axtens.net
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D202009
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191031093909.9228-2-dja@axtens.net
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt; [shadow rework]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Co-developed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Cc: Qian Cai &lt;cai@lca.pw&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Patch series "kasan: support backing vmalloc space with real shadow
memory", v11.

Currently, vmalloc space is backed by the early shadow page.  This means
that kasan is incompatible with VMAP_STACK.

This series provides a mechanism to back vmalloc space with real,
dynamically allocated memory.  I have only wired up x86, because that's
the only currently supported arch I can work with easily, but it's very
easy to wire up other architectures, and it appears that there is some
work-in-progress code to do this on arm64 and s390.

This has been discussed before in the context of VMAP_STACK:
 - https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202009
 - https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/7/22/198
 - https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/7/19/822

In terms of implementation details:

Most mappings in vmalloc space are small, requiring less than a full
page of shadow space.  Allocating a full shadow page per mapping would
therefore be wasteful.  Furthermore, to ensure that different mappings
use different shadow pages, mappings would have to be aligned to
KASAN_SHADOW_SCALE_SIZE * PAGE_SIZE.

Instead, share backing space across multiple mappings.  Allocate a
backing page when a mapping in vmalloc space uses a particular page of
the shadow region.  This page can be shared by other vmalloc mappings
later on.

We hook in to the vmap infrastructure to lazily clean up unused shadow
memory.

Testing with test_vmalloc.sh on an x86 VM with 2 vCPUs shows that:

 - Turning on KASAN, inline instrumentation, without vmalloc, introuduces
   a 4.1x-4.2x slowdown in vmalloc operations.

 - Turning this on introduces the following slowdowns over KASAN:
     * ~1.76x slower single-threaded (test_vmalloc.sh performance)
     * ~2.18x slower when both cpus are performing operations
       simultaneously (test_vmalloc.sh sequential_test_order=1)

This is unfortunate but given that this is a debug feature only, not the
end of the world.  The benchmarks are also a stress-test for the vmalloc
subsystem: they're not indicative of an overall 2x slowdown!

This patch (of 4):

Hook into vmalloc and vmap, and dynamically allocate real shadow memory
to back the mappings.

Most mappings in vmalloc space are small, requiring less than a full
page of shadow space.  Allocating a full shadow page per mapping would
therefore be wasteful.  Furthermore, to ensure that different mappings
use different shadow pages, mappings would have to be aligned to
KASAN_SHADOW_SCALE_SIZE * PAGE_SIZE.

Instead, share backing space across multiple mappings.  Allocate a
backing page when a mapping in vmalloc space uses a particular page of
the shadow region.  This page can be shared by other vmalloc mappings
later on.

We hook in to the vmap infrastructure to lazily clean up unused shadow
memory.

To avoid the difficulties around swapping mappings around, this code
expects that the part of the shadow region that covers the vmalloc space
will not be covered by the early shadow page, but will be left unmapped.
This will require changes in arch-specific code.

This allows KASAN with VMAP_STACK, and may be helpful for architectures
that do not have a separate module space (e.g.  powerpc64, which I am
currently working on).  It also allows relaxing the module alignment
back to PAGE_SIZE.

Testing with test_vmalloc.sh on an x86 VM with 2 vCPUs shows that:

 - Turning on KASAN, inline instrumentation, without vmalloc, introuduces
   a 4.1x-4.2x slowdown in vmalloc operations.

 - Turning this on introduces the following slowdowns over KASAN:
     * ~1.76x slower single-threaded (test_vmalloc.sh performance)
     * ~2.18x slower when both cpus are performing operations
       simultaneously (test_vmalloc.sh sequential_test_order=3D1)

This is unfortunate but given that this is a debug feature only, not the
end of the world.

The full benchmark results are:

Performance

                              No KASAN      KASAN original x baseline  KASAN vmalloc x baseline    x KASAN

fix_size_alloc_test             662004            11404956      17.23       19144610      28.92       1.68
full_fit_alloc_test             710950            12029752      16.92       13184651      18.55       1.10
long_busy_list_alloc_test      9431875            43990172       4.66       82970178       8.80       1.89
random_size_alloc_test         5033626            23061762       4.58       47158834       9.37       2.04
fix_align_alloc_test           1252514            15276910      12.20       31266116      24.96       2.05
random_size_align_alloc_te     1648501            14578321       8.84       25560052      15.51       1.75
align_shift_alloc_test             147                 830       5.65           5692      38.72       6.86
pcpu_alloc_test                  80732              125520       1.55         140864       1.74       1.12
Total Cycles              119240774314        763211341128       6.40  1390338696894      11.66       1.82

Sequential, 2 cpus

                              No KASAN      KASAN original x baseline  KASAN vmalloc x baseline    x KASAN

fix_size_alloc_test            1423150            14276550      10.03       27733022      19.49       1.94
full_fit_alloc_test            1754219            14722640       8.39       15030786       8.57       1.02
long_busy_list_alloc_test     11451858            52154973       4.55      107016027       9.34       2.05
random_size_alloc_test         5989020            26735276       4.46       68885923      11.50       2.58
fix_align_alloc_test           2050976            20166900       9.83       50491675      24.62       2.50
random_size_align_alloc_te     2858229            17971700       6.29       38730225      13.55       2.16
align_shift_alloc_test             405                6428      15.87          26253      64.82       4.08
pcpu_alloc_test                 127183              151464       1.19         216263       1.70       1.43
Total Cycles               54181269392        308723699764       5.70   650772566394      12.01       2.11
fix_size_alloc_test            1420404            14289308      10.06       27790035      19.56       1.94
full_fit_alloc_test            1736145            14806234       8.53       15274301       8.80       1.03
long_busy_list_alloc_test     11404638            52270785       4.58      107550254       9.43       2.06
random_size_alloc_test         6017006            26650625       4.43       68696127      11.42       2.58
fix_align_alloc_test           2045504            20280985       9.91       50414862      24.65       2.49
random_size_align_alloc_te     2845338            17931018       6.30       38510276      13.53       2.15
align_shift_alloc_test             472                3760       7.97           9656      20.46       2.57
pcpu_alloc_test                 118643              132732       1.12         146504       1.23       1.10
Total Cycles               54040011688        309102805492       5.72   651325675652      12.05       2.11

[dja@axtens.net: fixups]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191120052719.7201-1-dja@axtens.net
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D202009
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191031093909.9228-2-dja@axtens.net
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt; [shadow rework]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Co-developed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Cc: Qian Cai &lt;cai@lca.pw&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/kasan: add object validation in ksize()</title>
<updated>2019-07-12T18:05:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marco Elver</name>
<email>elver@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-12T03:54:18+00:00</published>
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ksize() has been unconditionally unpoisoning the whole shadow memory
region associated with an allocation.  This can lead to various undetected
bugs, for example, double-kzfree().

Specifically, kzfree() uses ksize() to determine the actual allocation
size, and subsequently zeroes the memory.  Since ksize() used to just
unpoison the whole shadow memory region, no invalid free was detected.

This patch addresses this as follows:

1. Add a check in ksize(), and only then unpoison the memory region.

2. Preserve kasan_unpoison_slab() semantics by explicitly unpoisoning
   the shadow memory region using the size obtained from __ksize().

Tested:
1. With SLAB allocator: a) normal boot without warnings; b) verified the
   added double-kzfree() is detected.
2. With SLUB allocator: a) normal boot without warnings; b) verified the
   added double-kzfree() is detected.

[elver@google.com: s/BUG_ON/WARN_ON_ONCE/, per Kees]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190627094445.216365-6-elver@google.com
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199359
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190626142014.141844-6-elver@google.com
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
ksize() has been unconditionally unpoisoning the whole shadow memory
region associated with an allocation.  This can lead to various undetected
bugs, for example, double-kzfree().

Specifically, kzfree() uses ksize() to determine the actual allocation
size, and subsequently zeroes the memory.  Since ksize() used to just
unpoison the whole shadow memory region, no invalid free was detected.

This patch addresses this as follows:

1. Add a check in ksize(), and only then unpoison the memory region.

2. Preserve kasan_unpoison_slab() semantics by explicitly unpoisoning
   the shadow memory region using the size obtained from __ksize().

Tested:
1. With SLAB allocator: a) normal boot without warnings; b) verified the
   added double-kzfree() is detected.
2. With SLUB allocator: a) normal boot without warnings; b) verified the
   added double-kzfree() is detected.

[elver@google.com: s/BUG_ON/WARN_ON_ONCE/, per Kees]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190627094445.216365-6-elver@google.com
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199359
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190626142014.141844-6-elver@google.com
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kasan: add __must_check annotations to kasan hooks</title>
<updated>2018-12-28T20:11:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrey Konovalov</name>
<email>andreyknvl@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-28T08:31:01+00:00</published>
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This patch adds __must_check annotations to kasan hooks that return a
pointer to make sure that a tagged pointer always gets propagated.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/03b269c5e453945f724bfca3159d4e1333a8fb1c.1544099024.git.andreyknvl@google.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This patch adds __must_check annotations to kasan hooks that return a
pointer to make sure that a tagged pointer always gets propagated.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/03b269c5e453945f724bfca3159d4e1333a8fb1c.1544099024.git.andreyknvl@google.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kasan, arm64: add brk handler for inline instrumentation</title>
<updated>2018-12-28T20:11:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrey Konovalov</name>
<email>andreyknvl@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-28T08:30:54+00:00</published>
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Tag-based KASAN inline instrumentation mode (which embeds checks of shadow
memory into the generated code, instead of inserting a callback) generates
a brk instruction when a tag mismatch is detected.

This commit adds a tag-based KASAN specific brk handler, that decodes the
immediate value passed to the brk instructions (to extract information
about the memory access that triggered the mismatch), reads the register
values (x0 contains the guilty address) and reports the bug.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c91fe7684070e34dc34b419e6b69498f4dcacc2d.1544099024.git.andreyknvl@google.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Tag-based KASAN inline instrumentation mode (which embeds checks of shadow
memory into the generated code, instead of inserting a callback) generates
a brk instruction when a tag mismatch is detected.

This commit adds a tag-based KASAN specific brk handler, that decodes the
immediate value passed to the brk instructions (to extract information
about the memory access that triggered the mismatch), reads the register
values (x0 contains the guilty address) and reports the bug.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c91fe7684070e34dc34b419e6b69498f4dcacc2d.1544099024.git.andreyknvl@google.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kasan: add tag related helper functions</title>
<updated>2018-12-28T20:11:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrey Konovalov</name>
<email>andreyknvl@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-28T08:30:16+00:00</published>
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This commit adds a few helper functions, that are meant to be used to work
with tags embedded in the top byte of kernel pointers: to set, to get or
to reset the top byte.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f6c6437bb8e143bc44f42c3c259c62e734be7935.1544099024.git.andreyknvl@google.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This commit adds a few helper functions, that are meant to be used to work
with tags embedded in the top byte of kernel pointers: to set, to get or
to reset the top byte.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f6c6437bb8e143bc44f42c3c259c62e734be7935.1544099024.git.andreyknvl@google.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kasan: initialize shadow to 0xff for tag-based mode</title>
<updated>2018-12-28T20:11:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrey Konovalov</name>
<email>andreyknvl@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-28T08:30:09+00:00</published>
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A tag-based KASAN shadow memory cell contains a memory tag, that
corresponds to the tag in the top byte of the pointer, that points to that
memory.  The native top byte value of kernel pointers is 0xff, so with
tag-based KASAN we need to initialize shadow memory to 0xff.

[cai@lca.pw: arm64: skip kmemleak for KASAN again\
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181226020550.63712-1-cai@lca.pw
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5cc1b789aad7c99cf4f3ec5b328b147ad53edb40.1544099024.git.andreyknvl@google.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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A tag-based KASAN shadow memory cell contains a memory tag, that
corresponds to the tag in the top byte of the pointer, that points to that
memory.  The native top byte value of kernel pointers is 0xff, so with
tag-based KASAN we need to initialize shadow memory to 0xff.

[cai@lca.pw: arm64: skip kmemleak for KASAN again\
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181226020550.63712-1-cai@lca.pw
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5cc1b789aad7c99cf4f3ec5b328b147ad53edb40.1544099024.git.andreyknvl@google.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kasan: rename kasan_zero_page to kasan_early_shadow_page</title>
<updated>2018-12-28T20:11:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrey Konovalov</name>
<email>andreyknvl@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-28T08:30:01+00:00</published>
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With tag based KASAN mode the early shadow value is 0xff and not 0x00, so
this patch renames kasan_zero_(page|pte|pmd|pud|p4d) to
kasan_early_shadow_(page|pte|pmd|pud|p4d) to avoid confusion.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3fed313280ebf4f88645f5b89ccbc066d320e177.1544099024.git.andreyknvl@google.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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With tag based KASAN mode the early shadow value is 0xff and not 0x00, so
this patch renames kasan_zero_(page|pte|pmd|pud|p4d) to
kasan_early_shadow_(page|pte|pmd|pud|p4d) to avoid confusion.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3fed313280ebf4f88645f5b89ccbc066d320e177.1544099024.git.andreyknvl@google.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kasan: add CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC and CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS</title>
<updated>2018-12-28T20:11:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrey Konovalov</name>
<email>andreyknvl@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-28T08:29:53+00:00</published>
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This commit splits the current CONFIG_KASAN config option into two:
1. CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC, that enables the generic KASAN mode (the one
   that exists now);
2. CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS, that enables the software tag-based KASAN mode.

The name CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS is chosen as in the future we will have
another hardware tag-based KASAN mode, that will rely on hardware memory
tagging support in arm64.

With CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS enabled, compiler options are changed to
instrument kernel files with -fsantize=kernel-hwaddress (except the ones
for which KASAN_SANITIZE := n is set).

Both CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC and CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS support both
CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE and CONFIG_KASAN_OUTLINE instrumentation modes.

This commit also adds empty placeholder (for now) implementation of
tag-based KASAN specific hooks inserted by the compiler and adjusts
common hooks implementation.

While this commit adds the CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS config option, this option
is not selectable, as it depends on HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_SW_TAGS, which we will
enable once all the infrastracture code has been added.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b2550106eb8a68b10fefbabce820910b115aa853.1544099024.git.andreyknvl@google.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This commit splits the current CONFIG_KASAN config option into two:
1. CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC, that enables the generic KASAN mode (the one
   that exists now);
2. CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS, that enables the software tag-based KASAN mode.

The name CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS is chosen as in the future we will have
another hardware tag-based KASAN mode, that will rely on hardware memory
tagging support in arm64.

With CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS enabled, compiler options are changed to
instrument kernel files with -fsantize=kernel-hwaddress (except the ones
for which KASAN_SANITIZE := n is set).

Both CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC and CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS support both
CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE and CONFIG_KASAN_OUTLINE instrumentation modes.

This commit also adds empty placeholder (for now) implementation of
tag-based KASAN specific hooks inserted by the compiler and adjusts
common hooks implementation.

While this commit adds the CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS config option, this option
is not selectable, as it depends on HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_SW_TAGS, which we will
enable once all the infrastracture code has been added.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b2550106eb8a68b10fefbabce820910b115aa853.1544099024.git.andreyknvl@google.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kasan, mm: change hooks signatures</title>
<updated>2018-12-28T20:11:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrey Konovalov</name>
<email>andreyknvl@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-28T08:29:37+00:00</published>
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Patch series "kasan: add software tag-based mode for arm64", v13.

This patchset adds a new software tag-based mode to KASAN [1].  (Initially
this mode was called KHWASAN, but it got renamed, see the naming rationale
at the end of this section).

The plan is to implement HWASan [2] for the kernel with the incentive,
that it's going to have comparable to KASAN performance, but in the same
time consume much less memory, trading that off for somewhat imprecise bug
detection and being supported only for arm64.

The underlying ideas of the approach used by software tag-based KASAN are:

1. By using the Top Byte Ignore (TBI) arm64 CPU feature, we can store
   pointer tags in the top byte of each kernel pointer.

2. Using shadow memory, we can store memory tags for each chunk of kernel
   memory.

3. On each memory allocation, we can generate a random tag, embed it into
   the returned pointer and set the memory tags that correspond to this
   chunk of memory to the same value.

4. By using compiler instrumentation, before each memory access we can add
   a check that the pointer tag matches the tag of the memory that is being
   accessed.

5. On a tag mismatch we report an error.

With this patchset the existing KASAN mode gets renamed to generic KASAN,
with the word "generic" meaning that the implementation can be supported
by any architecture as it is purely software.

The new mode this patchset adds is called software tag-based KASAN.  The
word "tag-based" refers to the fact that this mode uses tags embedded into
the top byte of kernel pointers and the TBI arm64 CPU feature that allows
to dereference such pointers.  The word "software" here means that shadow
memory manipulation and tag checking on pointer dereference is done in
software.  As it is the only tag-based implementation right now, "software
tag-based" KASAN is sometimes referred to as simply "tag-based" in this
patchset.

A potential expansion of this mode is a hardware tag-based mode, which
would use hardware memory tagging support (announced by Arm [3]) instead
of compiler instrumentation and manual shadow memory manipulation.

Same as generic KASAN, software tag-based KASAN is strictly a debugging
feature.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/dev-tools/kasan.html

[2] http://clang.llvm.org/docs/HardwareAssistedAddressSanitizerDesign.html

[3] https://community.arm.com/processors/b/blog/posts/arm-a-profile-architecture-2018-developments-armv85a

====== Rationale

On mobile devices generic KASAN's memory usage is significant problem.
One of the main reasons to have tag-based KASAN is to be able to perform a
similar set of checks as the generic one does, but with lower memory
requirements.

Comment from Vishwath Mohan &lt;vishwath@google.com&gt;:

I don't have data on-hand, but anecdotally both ASAN and KASAN have proven
problematic to enable for environments that don't tolerate the increased
memory pressure well.  This includes

(a) Low-memory form factors - Wear, TV, Things, lower-tier phones like Go,
(c) Connected components like Pixel's visual core [1].

These are both places I'd love to have a low(er) memory footprint option at
my disposal.

Comment from Evgenii Stepanov &lt;eugenis@google.com&gt;:

Looking at a live Android device under load, slab (according to
/proc/meminfo) + kernel stack take 8-10% available RAM (~350MB).  KASAN's
overhead of 2x - 3x on top of it is not insignificant.

Not having this overhead enables near-production use - ex.  running
KASAN/KHWASAN kernel on a personal, daily-use device to catch bugs that do
not reproduce in test configuration.  These are the ones that often cost
the most engineering time to track down.

CPU overhead is bad, but generally tolerable.  RAM is critical, in our
experience.  Once it gets low enough, OOM-killer makes your life
miserable.

[1] https://www.blog.google/products/pixel/pixel-visual-core-image-processing-and-machine-learning-pixel-2/

====== Technical details

Software tag-based KASAN mode is implemented in a very similar way to the
generic one. This patchset essentially does the following:

1. TCR_TBI1 is set to enable Top Byte Ignore.

2. Shadow memory is used (with a different scale, 1:16, so each shadow
   byte corresponds to 16 bytes of kernel memory) to store memory tags.

3. All slab objects are aligned to shadow scale, which is 16 bytes.

4. All pointers returned from the slab allocator are tagged with a random
   tag and the corresponding shadow memory is poisoned with the same value.

5. Compiler instrumentation is used to insert tag checks. Either by
   calling callbacks or by inlining them (CONFIG_KASAN_OUTLINE and
   CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE flags are reused).

6. When a tag mismatch is detected in callback instrumentation mode
   KASAN simply prints a bug report. In case of inline instrumentation,
   clang inserts a brk instruction, and KASAN has it's own brk handler,
   which reports the bug.

7. The memory in between slab objects is marked with a reserved tag, and
   acts as a redzone.

8. When a slab object is freed it's marked with a reserved tag.

Bug detection is imprecise for two reasons:

1. We won't catch some small out-of-bounds accesses, that fall into the
   same shadow cell, as the last byte of a slab object.

2. We only have 1 byte to store tags, which means we have a 1/256
   probability of a tag match for an incorrect access (actually even
   slightly less due to reserved tag values).

Despite that there's a particular type of bugs that tag-based KASAN can
detect compared to generic KASAN: use-after-free after the object has been
allocated by someone else.

====== Testing

Some kernel developers voiced a concern that changing the top byte of
kernel pointers may lead to subtle bugs that are difficult to discover.
To address this concern deliberate testing has been performed.

It doesn't seem feasible to do some kind of static checking to find
potential issues with pointer tagging, so a dynamic approach was taken.
All pointer comparisons/subtractions have been instrumented in an LLVM
compiler pass and a kernel module that would print a bug report whenever
two pointers with different tags are being compared/subtracted (ignoring
comparisons with NULL pointers and with pointers obtained by casting an
error code to a pointer type) has been used.  Then the kernel has been
booted in QEMU and on an Odroid C2 board and syzkaller has been run.

This yielded the following results.

The two places that look interesting are:

is_vmalloc_addr in include/linux/mm.h
is_kernel_rodata in mm/util.c

Here we compare a pointer with some fixed untagged values to make sure
that the pointer lies in a particular part of the kernel address space.
Since tag-based KASAN doesn't add tags to pointers that belong to rodata
or vmalloc regions, this should work as is.  To make sure debug checks to
those two functions that check that the result doesn't change whether we
operate on pointers with or without untagging has been added.

A few other cases that don't look that interesting:

Comparing pointers to achieve unique sorting order of pointee objects
(e.g. sorting locks addresses before performing a double lock):

tty_ldisc_lock_pair_timeout in drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c
pipe_double_lock in fs/pipe.c
unix_state_double_lock in net/unix/af_unix.c
lock_two_nondirectories in fs/inode.c
mutex_lock_double in kernel/events/core.c

ep_cmp_ffd in fs/eventpoll.c
fsnotify_compare_groups fs/notify/mark.c

Nothing needs to be done here, since the tags embedded into pointers
don't change, so the sorting order would still be unique.

Checks that a pointer belongs to some particular allocation:

is_sibling_entry in lib/radix-tree.c
object_is_on_stack in include/linux/sched/task_stack.h

Nothing needs to be done here either, since two pointers can only belong
to the same allocation if they have the same tag.

Overall, since the kernel boots and works, there are no critical bugs.
As for the rest, the traditional kernel testing way (use until fails) is
the only one that looks feasible.

Another point here is that tag-based KASAN is available under a separate
config option that needs to be deliberately enabled. Even though it might
be used in a "near-production" environment to find bugs that are not found
during fuzzing or running tests, it is still a debug tool.

====== Benchmarks

The following numbers were collected on Odroid C2 board. Both generic and
tag-based KASAN were used in inline instrumentation mode.

Boot time [1]:
* ~1.7 sec for clean kernel
* ~5.0 sec for generic KASAN
* ~5.0 sec for tag-based KASAN

Network performance [2]:
* 8.33 Gbits/sec for clean kernel
* 3.17 Gbits/sec for generic KASAN
* 2.85 Gbits/sec for tag-based KASAN

Slab memory usage after boot [3]:
* ~40 kb for clean kernel
* ~105 kb (~260% overhead) for generic KASAN
* ~47 kb (~20% overhead) for tag-based KASAN

KASAN memory overhead consists of three main parts:
1. Increased slab memory usage due to redzones.
2. Shadow memory (the whole reserved once during boot).
3. Quaratine (grows gradually until some preset limit; the more the limit,
   the more the chance to detect a use-after-free).

Comparing tag-based vs generic KASAN for each of these points:
1. 20% vs 260% overhead.
2. 1/16th vs 1/8th of physical memory.
3. Tag-based KASAN doesn't require quarantine.

[1] Time before the ext4 driver is initialized.
[2] Measured as `iperf -s &amp; iperf -c 127.0.0.1 -t 30`.
[3] Measured as `cat /proc/meminfo | grep Slab`.

====== Some notes

A few notes:

1. The patchset can be found here:
   https://github.com/xairy/kasan-prototype/tree/khwasan

2. Building requires a recent Clang version (7.0.0 or later).

3. Stack instrumentation is not supported yet and will be added later.

This patch (of 25):

Tag-based KASAN changes the value of the top byte of pointers returned
from the kernel allocation functions (such as kmalloc).  This patch
updates KASAN hooks signatures and their usage in SLAB and SLUB code to
reflect that.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/aec2b5e3973781ff8a6bb6760f8543643202c451.1544099024.git.andreyknvl@google.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Patch series "kasan: add software tag-based mode for arm64", v13.

This patchset adds a new software tag-based mode to KASAN [1].  (Initially
this mode was called KHWASAN, but it got renamed, see the naming rationale
at the end of this section).

The plan is to implement HWASan [2] for the kernel with the incentive,
that it's going to have comparable to KASAN performance, but in the same
time consume much less memory, trading that off for somewhat imprecise bug
detection and being supported only for arm64.

The underlying ideas of the approach used by software tag-based KASAN are:

1. By using the Top Byte Ignore (TBI) arm64 CPU feature, we can store
   pointer tags in the top byte of each kernel pointer.

2. Using shadow memory, we can store memory tags for each chunk of kernel
   memory.

3. On each memory allocation, we can generate a random tag, embed it into
   the returned pointer and set the memory tags that correspond to this
   chunk of memory to the same value.

4. By using compiler instrumentation, before each memory access we can add
   a check that the pointer tag matches the tag of the memory that is being
   accessed.

5. On a tag mismatch we report an error.

With this patchset the existing KASAN mode gets renamed to generic KASAN,
with the word "generic" meaning that the implementation can be supported
by any architecture as it is purely software.

The new mode this patchset adds is called software tag-based KASAN.  The
word "tag-based" refers to the fact that this mode uses tags embedded into
the top byte of kernel pointers and the TBI arm64 CPU feature that allows
to dereference such pointers.  The word "software" here means that shadow
memory manipulation and tag checking on pointer dereference is done in
software.  As it is the only tag-based implementation right now, "software
tag-based" KASAN is sometimes referred to as simply "tag-based" in this
patchset.

A potential expansion of this mode is a hardware tag-based mode, which
would use hardware memory tagging support (announced by Arm [3]) instead
of compiler instrumentation and manual shadow memory manipulation.

Same as generic KASAN, software tag-based KASAN is strictly a debugging
feature.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/dev-tools/kasan.html

[2] http://clang.llvm.org/docs/HardwareAssistedAddressSanitizerDesign.html

[3] https://community.arm.com/processors/b/blog/posts/arm-a-profile-architecture-2018-developments-armv85a

====== Rationale

On mobile devices generic KASAN's memory usage is significant problem.
One of the main reasons to have tag-based KASAN is to be able to perform a
similar set of checks as the generic one does, but with lower memory
requirements.

Comment from Vishwath Mohan &lt;vishwath@google.com&gt;:

I don't have data on-hand, but anecdotally both ASAN and KASAN have proven
problematic to enable for environments that don't tolerate the increased
memory pressure well.  This includes

(a) Low-memory form factors - Wear, TV, Things, lower-tier phones like Go,
(c) Connected components like Pixel's visual core [1].

These are both places I'd love to have a low(er) memory footprint option at
my disposal.

Comment from Evgenii Stepanov &lt;eugenis@google.com&gt;:

Looking at a live Android device under load, slab (according to
/proc/meminfo) + kernel stack take 8-10% available RAM (~350MB).  KASAN's
overhead of 2x - 3x on top of it is not insignificant.

Not having this overhead enables near-production use - ex.  running
KASAN/KHWASAN kernel on a personal, daily-use device to catch bugs that do
not reproduce in test configuration.  These are the ones that often cost
the most engineering time to track down.

CPU overhead is bad, but generally tolerable.  RAM is critical, in our
experience.  Once it gets low enough, OOM-killer makes your life
miserable.

[1] https://www.blog.google/products/pixel/pixel-visual-core-image-processing-and-machine-learning-pixel-2/

====== Technical details

Software tag-based KASAN mode is implemented in a very similar way to the
generic one. This patchset essentially does the following:

1. TCR_TBI1 is set to enable Top Byte Ignore.

2. Shadow memory is used (with a different scale, 1:16, so each shadow
   byte corresponds to 16 bytes of kernel memory) to store memory tags.

3. All slab objects are aligned to shadow scale, which is 16 bytes.

4. All pointers returned from the slab allocator are tagged with a random
   tag and the corresponding shadow memory is poisoned with the same value.

5. Compiler instrumentation is used to insert tag checks. Either by
   calling callbacks or by inlining them (CONFIG_KASAN_OUTLINE and
   CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE flags are reused).

6. When a tag mismatch is detected in callback instrumentation mode
   KASAN simply prints a bug report. In case of inline instrumentation,
   clang inserts a brk instruction, and KASAN has it's own brk handler,
   which reports the bug.

7. The memory in between slab objects is marked with a reserved tag, and
   acts as a redzone.

8. When a slab object is freed it's marked with a reserved tag.

Bug detection is imprecise for two reasons:

1. We won't catch some small out-of-bounds accesses, that fall into the
   same shadow cell, as the last byte of a slab object.

2. We only have 1 byte to store tags, which means we have a 1/256
   probability of a tag match for an incorrect access (actually even
   slightly less due to reserved tag values).

Despite that there's a particular type of bugs that tag-based KASAN can
detect compared to generic KASAN: use-after-free after the object has been
allocated by someone else.

====== Testing

Some kernel developers voiced a concern that changing the top byte of
kernel pointers may lead to subtle bugs that are difficult to discover.
To address this concern deliberate testing has been performed.

It doesn't seem feasible to do some kind of static checking to find
potential issues with pointer tagging, so a dynamic approach was taken.
All pointer comparisons/subtractions have been instrumented in an LLVM
compiler pass and a kernel module that would print a bug report whenever
two pointers with different tags are being compared/subtracted (ignoring
comparisons with NULL pointers and with pointers obtained by casting an
error code to a pointer type) has been used.  Then the kernel has been
booted in QEMU and on an Odroid C2 board and syzkaller has been run.

This yielded the following results.

The two places that look interesting are:

is_vmalloc_addr in include/linux/mm.h
is_kernel_rodata in mm/util.c

Here we compare a pointer with some fixed untagged values to make sure
that the pointer lies in a particular part of the kernel address space.
Since tag-based KASAN doesn't add tags to pointers that belong to rodata
or vmalloc regions, this should work as is.  To make sure debug checks to
those two functions that check that the result doesn't change whether we
operate on pointers with or without untagging has been added.

A few other cases that don't look that interesting:

Comparing pointers to achieve unique sorting order of pointee objects
(e.g. sorting locks addresses before performing a double lock):

tty_ldisc_lock_pair_timeout in drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c
pipe_double_lock in fs/pipe.c
unix_state_double_lock in net/unix/af_unix.c
lock_two_nondirectories in fs/inode.c
mutex_lock_double in kernel/events/core.c

ep_cmp_ffd in fs/eventpoll.c
fsnotify_compare_groups fs/notify/mark.c

Nothing needs to be done here, since the tags embedded into pointers
don't change, so the sorting order would still be unique.

Checks that a pointer belongs to some particular allocation:

is_sibling_entry in lib/radix-tree.c
object_is_on_stack in include/linux/sched/task_stack.h

Nothing needs to be done here either, since two pointers can only belong
to the same allocation if they have the same tag.

Overall, since the kernel boots and works, there are no critical bugs.
As for the rest, the traditional kernel testing way (use until fails) is
the only one that looks feasible.

Another point here is that tag-based KASAN is available under a separate
config option that needs to be deliberately enabled. Even though it might
be used in a "near-production" environment to find bugs that are not found
during fuzzing or running tests, it is still a debug tool.

====== Benchmarks

The following numbers were collected on Odroid C2 board. Both generic and
tag-based KASAN were used in inline instrumentation mode.

Boot time [1]:
* ~1.7 sec for clean kernel
* ~5.0 sec for generic KASAN
* ~5.0 sec for tag-based KASAN

Network performance [2]:
* 8.33 Gbits/sec for clean kernel
* 3.17 Gbits/sec for generic KASAN
* 2.85 Gbits/sec for tag-based KASAN

Slab memory usage after boot [3]:
* ~40 kb for clean kernel
* ~105 kb (~260% overhead) for generic KASAN
* ~47 kb (~20% overhead) for tag-based KASAN

KASAN memory overhead consists of three main parts:
1. Increased slab memory usage due to redzones.
2. Shadow memory (the whole reserved once during boot).
3. Quaratine (grows gradually until some preset limit; the more the limit,
   the more the chance to detect a use-after-free).

Comparing tag-based vs generic KASAN for each of these points:
1. 20% vs 260% overhead.
2. 1/16th vs 1/8th of physical memory.
3. Tag-based KASAN doesn't require quarantine.

[1] Time before the ext4 driver is initialized.
[2] Measured as `iperf -s &amp; iperf -c 127.0.0.1 -t 30`.
[3] Measured as `cat /proc/meminfo | grep Slab`.

====== Some notes

A few notes:

1. The patchset can be found here:
   https://github.com/xairy/kasan-prototype/tree/khwasan

2. Building requires a recent Clang version (7.0.0 or later).

3. Stack instrumentation is not supported yet and will be added later.

This patch (of 25):

Tag-based KASAN changes the value of the top byte of pointers returned
from the kernel allocation functions (such as kmalloc).  This patch
updates KASAN hooks signatures and their usage in SLAB and SLUB code to
reflect that.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/aec2b5e3973781ff8a6bb6760f8543643202c451.1544099024.git.andreyknvl@google.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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