[PATCH v3 mm 00/13] kasan: optimizations and fixes for HW_TAGS

Andrey Konovalov andreyknvl at google.com
Fri Feb 5 12:34:34 EST 2021


This patchset makes the HW_TAGS mode more efficient, mostly by reworking
poisoning approaches and simplifying/inlining some internal helpers.

With this change, the overhead of HW_TAGS annotations excluding setting
and checking memory tags is ~3%. The performance impact caused by tags
will be unknown until we have hardware that supports MTE.

As a side-effect, this patchset speeds up generic KASAN by ~15%.

Changes v2->v3:
- Rebased onto mm.
- Add documentation update patch.

Changes v1->v2:
- Use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() for arm64 symbols.
- Rename kmalloc bool flag argument to is_kmalloc.
- Make empty mte_set_mem_tag_range() return void.
- Fix build warning in 32-bit systems by using unsigned long instead
  of u64 in WARN_ON() checks.
- Minor changes in comments and commit descriptions.
- Use kfence_ksize() before __ksize() to avoid crashes with KFENCE.
- Use inline instead of __always_inline.

Andrey Konovalov (13):
  kasan, mm: don't save alloc stacks twice
  kasan, mm: optimize kmalloc poisoning
  kasan: optimize large kmalloc poisoning
  kasan: clean up setting free info in kasan_slab_free
  kasan: unify large kfree checks
  kasan: rework krealloc tests
  kasan, mm: fail krealloc on freed objects
  kasan, mm: optimize krealloc poisoning
  kasan: ensure poisoning size alignment
  arm64: kasan: simplify and inline MTE functions
  kasan: inline HW_TAGS helper functions
  arm64: kasan: export MTE symbols for KASAN tests
  kasan: clarify that only first bug is reported in HW_TAGS

 Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst  |   8 +-
 arch/arm64/include/asm/cache.h     |   1 -
 arch/arm64/include/asm/kasan.h     |   1 +
 arch/arm64/include/asm/mte-def.h   |   2 +
 arch/arm64/include/asm/mte-kasan.h |  65 ++++++++--
 arch/arm64/include/asm/mte.h       |   2 -
 arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c            |  48 +-------
 arch/arm64/lib/mte.S               |  16 ---
 include/linux/kasan.h              |  25 ++--
 lib/test_kasan.c                   | 111 +++++++++++++++--
 mm/kasan/common.c                  | 187 ++++++++++++++++++++---------
 mm/kasan/hw_tags.c                 |   2 +-
 mm/kasan/kasan.h                   |  72 +++++++++--
 mm/kasan/shadow.c                  |  53 ++++----
 mm/slab_common.c                   |  18 ++-
 mm/slub.c                          |   3 +-
 16 files changed, 425 insertions(+), 189 deletions(-)

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