[PATCH 01/12] kasan, mm: don't save alloc stacks twice

Marco Elver elver at google.com
Tue Feb 2 11:06:21 EST 2021


On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 08:43PM +0100, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> Currently KASAN saves allocation stacks in both kasan_slab_alloc() and
> kasan_kmalloc() annotations. This patch changes KASAN to save allocation
> stacks for slab objects from kmalloc caches in kasan_kmalloc() only,
> and stacks for other slab objects in kasan_slab_alloc() only.
> 
> This change requires ____kasan_kmalloc() knowing whether the object
> belongs to a kmalloc cache. This is implemented by adding a flag field
> to the kasan_info structure. That flag is only set for kmalloc caches
> via a new kasan_cache_create_kmalloc() annotation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl at google.com>

Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver at google.com>

> ---
>  include/linux/kasan.h |  9 +++++++++
>  mm/kasan/common.c     | 18 ++++++++++++++----
>  mm/slab_common.c      |  1 +
>  3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/kasan.h b/include/linux/kasan.h
> index 6d8f3227c264..2d5de4092185 100644
> --- a/include/linux/kasan.h
> +++ b/include/linux/kasan.h
> @@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ static inline void kasan_disable_current(void) {}
>  struct kasan_cache {
>  	int alloc_meta_offset;
>  	int free_meta_offset;
> +	bool is_kmalloc;
>  };
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_KASAN_HW_TAGS
> @@ -143,6 +144,13 @@ static __always_inline void kasan_cache_create(struct kmem_cache *cache,
>  		__kasan_cache_create(cache, size, flags);
>  }
>  
> +void __kasan_cache_create_kmalloc(struct kmem_cache *cache);
> +static __always_inline void kasan_cache_create_kmalloc(struct kmem_cache *cache)
> +{
> +	if (kasan_enabled())
> +		__kasan_cache_create_kmalloc(cache);
> +}
> +
>  size_t __kasan_metadata_size(struct kmem_cache *cache);
>  static __always_inline size_t kasan_metadata_size(struct kmem_cache *cache)
>  {
> @@ -278,6 +286,7 @@ static inline void kasan_free_pages(struct page *page, unsigned int order) {}
>  static inline void kasan_cache_create(struct kmem_cache *cache,
>  				      unsigned int *size,
>  				      slab_flags_t *flags) {}
> +static inline void kasan_cache_create_kmalloc(struct kmem_cache *cache) {}
>  static inline size_t kasan_metadata_size(struct kmem_cache *cache) { return 0; }
>  static inline void kasan_poison_slab(struct page *page) {}
>  static inline void kasan_unpoison_object_data(struct kmem_cache *cache,
> diff --git a/mm/kasan/common.c b/mm/kasan/common.c
> index fe852f3cfa42..374049564ea3 100644
> --- a/mm/kasan/common.c
> +++ b/mm/kasan/common.c
> @@ -210,6 +210,11 @@ void __kasan_cache_create(struct kmem_cache *cache, unsigned int *size,
>  		*size = optimal_size;
>  }
>  
> +void __kasan_cache_create_kmalloc(struct kmem_cache *cache)
> +{
> +	cache->kasan_info.is_kmalloc = true;
> +}
> +
>  size_t __kasan_metadata_size(struct kmem_cache *cache)
>  {
>  	if (!kasan_stack_collection_enabled())
> @@ -394,17 +399,22 @@ void __kasan_slab_free_mempool(void *ptr, unsigned long ip)
>  	}
>  }
>  
> -static void set_alloc_info(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object, gfp_t flags)
> +static void set_alloc_info(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object,
> +				gfp_t flags, bool kmalloc)
>  {
>  	struct kasan_alloc_meta *alloc_meta;
>  
> +	/* Don't save alloc info for kmalloc caches in kasan_slab_alloc(). */
> +	if (cache->kasan_info.is_kmalloc && !kmalloc)
> +		return;
> +
>  	alloc_meta = kasan_get_alloc_meta(cache, object);
>  	if (alloc_meta)
>  		kasan_set_track(&alloc_meta->alloc_track, flags);
>  }
>  
>  static void *____kasan_kmalloc(struct kmem_cache *cache, const void *object,
> -				size_t size, gfp_t flags, bool keep_tag)
> +				size_t size, gfp_t flags, bool kmalloc)
>  {
>  	unsigned long redzone_start;
>  	unsigned long redzone_end;
> @@ -423,7 +433,7 @@ static void *____kasan_kmalloc(struct kmem_cache *cache, const void *object,
>  				KASAN_GRANULE_SIZE);
>  	redzone_end = round_up((unsigned long)object + cache->object_size,
>  				KASAN_GRANULE_SIZE);
> -	tag = assign_tag(cache, object, false, keep_tag);
> +	tag = assign_tag(cache, object, false, kmalloc);
>  
>  	/* Tag is ignored in set_tag without CONFIG_KASAN_SW/HW_TAGS */
>  	kasan_unpoison(set_tag(object, tag), size);
> @@ -431,7 +441,7 @@ static void *____kasan_kmalloc(struct kmem_cache *cache, const void *object,
>  			   KASAN_KMALLOC_REDZONE);
>  
>  	if (kasan_stack_collection_enabled())
> -		set_alloc_info(cache, (void *)object, flags);
> +		set_alloc_info(cache, (void *)object, flags, kmalloc);

It doesn't bother me too much, but: 'bool kmalloc' shadows function
'kmalloc' so this is technically fine, but using 'kmalloc' as the
variable name here might be confusing and there is a small chance it
might cause problems in a future refactor.

>  	return set_tag(object, tag);
>  }
> diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c
> index 9aa3d2fe4c55..39d1a8ff9bb8 100644
> --- a/mm/slab_common.c
> +++ b/mm/slab_common.c
> @@ -647,6 +647,7 @@ struct kmem_cache *__init create_kmalloc_cache(const char *name,
>  		panic("Out of memory when creating slab %s\n", name);
>  
>  	create_boot_cache(s, name, size, flags, useroffset, usersize);
> +	kasan_cache_create_kmalloc(s);
>  	list_add(&s->list, &slab_caches);
>  	s->refcount = 1;
>  	return s;
> -- 
> 2.30.0.365.g02bc693789-goog
> 



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