[PATCHv2 3/3] arm64: kasan: clear stale stack poison

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Thu Mar 3 08:54:28 PST 2016


Functions which the compiler has instrumented for ASAN place poison on
the stack shadow upon entry and remove this poison prior to returning.

In the case of cpuidle, CPUs exit the kernel a number of levels deep
in C code. Any instrumented functions on this critical path will leave
portions of the stack shadow poisoned.

If CPUs lose context and return to the kernel via a cold path, we
restore a prior context saved in __cpu_suspend_enter are forgotten, and
we never remove the poison they placed in the stack shadow area by
functions calls between this and the actual exit of the kernel.

Thus, (depending on stackframe layout) subsequent calls to instrumented
functions may hit this stale poison, resulting in (spurious) KASAN
splats to the console.

To avoid this, clear any stale poison from the idle thread for a CPU
prior to bringing a CPU online.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin at virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider at google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/sleep.S | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/sleep.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/sleep.S
index e33fe33..fd10eb6 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/sleep.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/sleep.S
@@ -145,6 +145,10 @@ ENTRY(cpu_resume_mmu)
 ENDPROC(cpu_resume_mmu)
 	.popsection
 cpu_resume_after_mmu:
+#ifdef CONFIG_KASAN
+	mov	x0, sp
+	bl	kasan_unpoison_remaining_stack
+#endif
 	mov	x0, #0			// return zero on success
 	ldp	x19, x20, [sp, #16]
 	ldp	x21, x22, [sp, #32]
-- 
1.9.1




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