[PATCH v2 0/7] KASan for arm

Florian Fainelli f.fainelli at gmail.com
Sun Mar 18 12:13:50 PDT 2018


Hi Abbott,

On 03/18/2018 05:53 AM, Abbott Liu wrote:
> Changelog:
> v2 - v1
> - Fixed some compiling error which happens on changing kernel compression
>   mode to lzma/xz/lzo/lz4.
>   ---Reported by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com>,
> 	     Russell King - ARM Linux <linux at armlinux.org.uk>
> - Fixed a compiling error cause by some older arm instruction set(armv4t)
>   don't suppory movw/movt which is reported by kbuild.
> - Changed the pte flag from _L_PTE_DEFAULT | L_PTE_DIRTY | L_PTE_XN to
>   pgprot_val(PAGE_KERNEL).
>   ---Reported by: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux at armlinux.org.uk>
> - Moved Enable KASan patch as the last one.
>   ---Reported by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com>,
>      Russell King - ARM Linux <linux at armlinux.org.uk>
> - Moved the definitions of cp15 registers from 
>   arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_hyp.h to arch/arm/include/asm/cp15.h.
>   ---Asked by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
> - Merge the following commits into the commit
>   Define the virtual space of KASan's shadow region:
>   1) Define the virtual space of KASan's shadow region;
>   2) Avoid cleaning the KASan shadow area's mapping table;
>   3) Add KASan layout;
> - Merge the following commits into the commit
>   Initialize the mapping of KASan shadow memory:
>   1) Initialize the mapping of KASan shadow memory;
>   2) Add support arm LPAE;
>   3) Don't need to map the shadow of KASan's shadow memory;
>      ---Reported by: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux at armlinux.org.uk>
>   4) Change mapping of kasan_zero_page int readonly.

Thanks for posting these patches! Just FWIW, you cannot quite add
someone's Tested-by for a patch series that was just resubmitted given
the differences with v1. I just gave it a spin on a Cortex-A5 (no LPAE)
and it looks like test_kasan.ko is passing, great job!

> 
> Hi,all:
>    These patches add arch specific code for kernel address sanitizer
> (see Documentation/kasan.txt).
> 
>    1/8 of kernel addresses reserved for shadow memory. There was no
> big enough hole for this, so virtual addresses for shadow were
> stolen from user space.
> 
>    At early boot stage the whole shadow region populated with just
> one physical page (kasan_zero_page). Later, this page reused
> as readonly zero shadow for some memory that KASan currently
> don't track (vmalloc).
> 
>   After mapping the physical memory, pages for shadow memory are
> allocated and mapped.
>   
>   KASan's stack instrumentation significantly increases stack's
> consumption, so CONFIG_KASAN doubles THREAD_SIZE.
> 
>   Functions like memset/memmove/memcpy do a lot of memory accesses.
> If bad pointer passed to one of these function it is important
> to catch this. Compiler's instrumentation cannot do this since
> these functions are written in assembly.
> 
>   KASan replaces memory functions with manually instrumented variants.
> Original functions declared as weak symbols so strong definitions
> in mm/kasan/kasan.c could replace them. Original functions have aliases
> with '__' prefix in name, so we could call non-instrumented variant
> if needed.
> 
>   Some files built without kasan instrumentation (e.g. mm/slub.c).
> Original mem* function replaced (via #define) with prefixed variants
> to disable memory access checks for such files.
> 
>   On arm LPAE architecture,  the mapping table of KASan shadow memory(if
> PAGE_OFFSET is 0xc0000000, the KASan shadow memory's virtual space is
> 0xb6e000000~0xbf000000) can't be filled in do_translation_fault function,
> because kasan instrumentation maybe cause do_translation_fault function
> accessing KASan shadow memory. The accessing of KASan shadow memory in
> do_translation_fault function maybe cause dead circle. So the mapping table
> of KASan shadow memory need be copyed in pgd_alloc function.
> 
> 
> Most of the code comes from:
> https://github.com/aryabinin/linux/commit/0b54f17e70ff50a902c4af05bb92716eb95acefe
> 
> These patches are tested on vexpress-ca15, vexpress-ca9
> 
> 
> 
> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin at samsung.com>
> Tested-by: Abbott Liu <liuwenliang at huawei.com>
> Signed-off-by: Abbott Liu <liuwenliang at huawei.com>
> 
> Abbott Liu (3):
>   2 1-byte checks more safer for memory_is_poisoned_16
>   Add TTBR operator for kasan_init
>   Define the virtual space of KASan's shadow region
> 
> Andrey Ryabinin (4):
>   Disable instrumentation for some code
>   Replace memory function for kasan
>   Initialize the mapping of KASan shadow memory
>   Enable KASan for arm
> 
>  arch/arm/Kconfig                      |   1 +
>  arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile     |   1 +
>  arch/arm/boot/compressed/decompress.c |   2 +
>  arch/arm/boot/compressed/libfdt_env.h |   2 +
>  arch/arm/include/asm/cp15.h           | 104 ++++++++++++
>  arch/arm/include/asm/kasan.h          |  23 +++
>  arch/arm/include/asm/kasan_def.h      |  52 ++++++
>  arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_hyp.h        |  52 ------
>  arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h         |   5 +
>  arch/arm/include/asm/pgalloc.h        |   7 +-
>  arch/arm/include/asm/string.h         |  17 ++
>  arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h    |   4 +
>  arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S          |   5 +-
>  arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S        |   6 +-
>  arch/arm/kernel/head-common.S         |   7 +-
>  arch/arm/kernel/setup.c               |   2 +
>  arch/arm/kernel/unwind.c              |   3 +-
>  arch/arm/kvm/hyp/cp15-sr.c            |  12 +-
>  arch/arm/kvm/hyp/switch.c             |   6 +-
>  arch/arm/lib/memcpy.S                 |   3 +
>  arch/arm/lib/memmove.S                |   5 +-
>  arch/arm/lib/memset.S                 |   3 +
>  arch/arm/mm/Makefile                  |   3 +
>  arch/arm/mm/init.c                    |   6 +
>  arch/arm/mm/kasan_init.c              | 290 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/arm/mm/mmu.c                     |   7 +-
>  arch/arm/mm/pgd.c                     |  14 ++
>  arch/arm/vdso/Makefile                |   2 +
>  mm/kasan/kasan.c                      |  24 ++-
>  29 files changed, 588 insertions(+), 80 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/include/asm/kasan.h
>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/include/asm/kasan_def.h
>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/mm/kasan_init.c
> 

-- 
Florian



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