[PATCH mm v10 31/42] kasan, mm: untag page address in free_reserved_area

[Alexander Potapenko]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 11:17 PM Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl at google.com> wrote:
>
> From: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino at arm.com>
>
> free_reserved_area() memsets the pages belonging to a given memory area.
> As that memory hasn't been allocated via page_alloc, the KASAN tags that
> those pages have are 0x00. As the result the memset might result in a tag
> mismatch.
>
> Untag the address to avoid spurious faults.
>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino at arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl at google.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider at google.com>

> ---
> Change-Id: If12b4944383575b8bbd7d971decbd7f04be6748b
> ---
>  mm/page_alloc.c | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 855627e52f81..4a69fef13ac7 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -7653,6 +7653,11 @@ unsigned long free_reserved_area(void *start, void *end, int poison, const char
>                  * alias for the memset().
>                  */
>                 direct_map_addr = page_address(page);
> +               /*
> +                * Perform a kasan-unchecked memset() since this memory
> +                * has not been initialized.
> +                */
> +               direct_map_addr = kasan_reset_tag(direct_map_addr);
>                 if ((unsigned int)poison <= 0xFF)
>                         memset(direct_map_addr, poison, PAGE_SIZE);
>
> --
> 2.29.2.299.gdc1121823c-goog
>


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