[PATCHv2 2/3] sched/kasan: remove stale KASAN poison after hotplug

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Thu Mar 3 08:54:27 PST 2016


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

In the case of CPU hotplug, 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.

When a CPU is subsequently brought back into the kernel via a different
path, depending on stackframe, layout 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: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider at google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
---
 kernel/sched/core.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 9503d59..41f6b22 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
  *              Thomas Gleixner, Mike Kravetz
  */
 
+#include <linux/kasan.h>
 #include <linux/mm.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/nmi.h>
@@ -5096,6 +5097,8 @@ void init_idle(struct task_struct *idle, int cpu)
 	idle->state = TASK_RUNNING;
 	idle->se.exec_start = sched_clock();
 
+	kasan_unpoison_task_stack(idle);
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 	/*
 	 * Its possible that init_idle() gets called multiple times on a task,
-- 
1.9.1




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