[PATCH v2] arm64: disable kasan when accessing frame->fp in unwind_frame

Yang Shi yang.shi at linaro.org
Mon Feb 8 09:13:09 PST 2016


When boot arm64 kernel with KASAN enabled, the below error is reported by
kasan:

BUG: KASAN: out-of-bounds in unwind_frame+0xec/0x260 at addr ffffffc064d57ba0
Read of size 8 by task pidof/499
page:ffffffbdc39355c0 count:0 mapcount:0 mapping:          (null) index:0x0
flags: 0x0()
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
CPU: 2 PID: 499 Comm: pidof Not tainted 4.5.0-rc1 #119
Hardware name: Freescale Layerscape 2085a RDB Board (DT)
Call trace:
[<ffffffc00008d078>] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x290
[<ffffffc00008d32c>] show_stack+0x24/0x30
[<ffffffc0006a981c>] dump_stack+0x8c/0xd8
[<ffffffc0002e4400>] kasan_report_error+0x558/0x588
[<ffffffc0002e4958>] kasan_report+0x60/0x70
[<ffffffc0002e3188>] __asan_load8+0x60/0x78
[<ffffffc00008c92c>] unwind_frame+0xec/0x260
[<ffffffc000087e60>] get_wchan+0x110/0x160
[<ffffffc0003b647c>] do_task_stat+0xb44/0xb68
[<ffffffc0003b7730>] proc_tgid_stat+0x40/0x50
[<ffffffc0003ac840>] proc_single_show+0x88/0xd8
[<ffffffc000345be8>] seq_read+0x370/0x770
[<ffffffc00030aba0>] __vfs_read+0xc8/0x1d8
[<ffffffc00030c0ec>] vfs_read+0x94/0x168
[<ffffffc00030d458>] SyS_read+0xb8/0x128
[<ffffffc000086530>] el0_svc_naked+0x24/0x28
Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffffffc064d57a80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f1 f1 f1 f1 00 00 f4 f4
 ffffffc064d57b00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>ffffffc064d57b80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
                                  ^
 ffffffc064d57c00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 ffffffc064d57c80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

Since the shadow byte pointed by the report is 0, so it may mean it is just hit
oob in non-current task. So, disable the instrumentation to silence these
warnings.

Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi at linaro.org>
---
v1 --> v2:
 * Replace kasan_disable{enable}_current to READ_ONCE_NOCHECK.
 * Cover the following statement too.

 arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c
index 4fad978..12a18cb 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c
@@ -64,8 +64,8 @@ int notrace unwind_frame(struct task_struct *tsk, struct stackframe *frame)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	frame->sp = fp + 0x10;
-	frame->fp = *(unsigned long *)(fp);
-	frame->pc = *(unsigned long *)(fp + 8);
+	frame->fp = READ_ONCE_NOCHECK(*(unsigned long *)(fp));
+	frame->pc = READ_ONCE_NOCHECK(*(unsigned long *)(fp + 8));
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
 	if (tsk && tsk->ret_stack &&
-- 
2.0.2




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