[PATCH 4/5 v16] ARM: Initialize the mapping of KASan shadow memory

Mike Rapoport rppt at linux.ibm.com
Mon Oct 19 06:04:58 EDT 2020


On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 11:42:44AM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 at 11:37, Mike Rapoport <rppt at linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 10:41:39AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> > > This patch initializes KASan shadow region's page table and memory.
> > > There are two stage for KASan initializing:
> > >
> > > 1. At early boot stage the whole shadow region is mapped to just
> > >    one physical page (kasan_zero_page). It is finished by the function
> > >    kasan_early_init which is called by __mmap_switched(arch/arm/kernel/
> > >    head-common.S)
> > >
> > > 2. After the calling of paging_init, we use kasan_zero_page as zero
> > >    shadow for some memory that KASan does not need to track, and we
> > >    allocate a new shadow space for the other memory that KASan need to
> > >    track. These issues are finished by the function kasan_init which is
> > >    call by setup_arch.
> > >
> > > When using KASan we also need to increase the THREAD_SIZE_ORDER
> > > from 1 to 2 as the extra calls for shadow memory uses quite a bit
> > > of stack.
> > >
> > > As we need to make a temporary copy of the PGD when setting up
> > > shadow memory we create a helpful PGD_SIZE definition for both
> > > LPAE and non-LPAE setups.
> > >
> > > The KASan core code unconditionally calls pud_populate() so this
> > > needs to be changed from BUG() to do {} while (0) when building
> > > with KASan enabled.
> > >
> > > After the initial development by Andre Ryabinin several modifications
> > > have been made to this code:
> > >
> > > Abbott Liu <liuwenliang at huawei.com>
> > > - Add support ARM LPAE: If LPAE is enabled, KASan shadow region's
> > >   mapping table need be copied in the pgd_alloc() function.
> > > - Change kasan_pte_populate,kasan_pmd_populate,kasan_pud_populate,
> > >   kasan_pgd_populate from .meminit.text section to .init.text section.
> > >   Reported by Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com>
> > >
> > > Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>:
> > > - Drop the custom mainpulation of TTBR0 and just use
> > >   cpu_switch_mm() to switch the pgd table.
> > > - Adopt to handle 4th level page tabel folding.
> > > - Rewrite the entire page directory and page entry initialization
> > >   sequence to be recursive based on ARM64:s kasan_init.c.
> > >
> > > Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>:
> > > - Necessary underlying fixes.
> > > - Crucial bug fixes to the memory set-up code.
> > >
> > > Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider at google.com>
> > > Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov at google.com>
> > > Cc: kasan-dev at googlegroups.com
> > > Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt at linux.ibm.com>
> > > Co-developed-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin at virtuozzo.com>
> > > Co-developed-by: Abbott Liu <liuwenliang at huawei.com>
> > > Co-developed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
> > > Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt at linux.ibm.com>
> > > Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
> > > Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org> # QEMU/KVM/mach-virt/LPAE/8G
> > > Tested-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com> # Brahma SoCs
> > > Tested-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at pengutronix.de> # i.MX6Q
> > > Reported-by: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux at armlinux.org.uk>
> > > Reported-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin at virtuozzo.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Abbott Liu <liuwenliang at huawei.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
> > > Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
> > > ---
> >
> > ...
> >
> > > +     cpu_switch_mm(tmp_pgd_table, &init_mm);
> > > +     local_flush_tlb_all();
> > > +
> > > +     clear_pgds(KASAN_SHADOW_START, KASAN_SHADOW_END);
> > > +
> > > +     kasan_populate_early_shadow(kasan_mem_to_shadow((void *)VMALLOC_START),
> > > +                                 kasan_mem_to_shadow((void *)-1UL) + 1);
> > > +
> > > +     for_each_memblock(memory, reg) {
> > > +             void *start = __va(reg->base);
> > > +             void *end = __va(reg->base + reg->size);
> > > +
> >
> > I've killed for_each_memblock() recently and we have now
> >
> >         for_each_mem_range(idx, &pa_start, &pa_end)
> >
> > instead.
> >
> 
> Will the enumeration include NOMAP regions as well? We could actually
> omit them here, since they don't need KASAN shadow.

The NOMAP regions are omitted.

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.



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