[PATCH] arm64: Fix KASAN random tag seed initialization

Andrey Konovalov andreyknvl at gmail.com
Wed Aug 14 09:04:09 PDT 2024


On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 11:10 AM Samuel Holland
<samuel.holland at sifive.com> wrote:
>
> Currently, kasan_init_sw_tags() is called before setup_per_cpu_areas(),
> so per_cpu(prng_state, cpu) accesses the same address regardless of the
> value of "cpu", and the same seed value gets copied to the percpu area
> for every CPU. Fix this by moving the call to smp_prepare_boot_cpu(),
> which is the first architecture hook after setup_per_cpu_areas().
>
> Fixes: 3c9e3aa11094 ("kasan: add tag related helper functions")
> Fixes: 3f41b6093823 ("kasan: fix random seed generation for tag-based mode")
> Signed-off-by: Samuel Holland <samuel.holland at sifive.com>
> ---
>
>  arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c | 3 ---
>  arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c   | 2 ++
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c
> index a096e2451044..b22d28ec8028 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c
> @@ -355,9 +355,6 @@ void __init __no_sanitize_address setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
>         smp_init_cpus();
>         smp_build_mpidr_hash();
>
> -       /* Init percpu seeds for random tags after cpus are set up. */
> -       kasan_init_sw_tags();
> -
>  #ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_SW_TTBR0_PAN
>         /*
>          * Make sure init_thread_info.ttbr0 always generates translation
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
> index 5e18fbcee9a2..f01f0fd7b7fe 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
> @@ -467,6 +467,8 @@ void __init smp_prepare_boot_cpu(void)
>                 init_gic_priority_masking();
>
>         kasan_init_hw_tags();
> +       /* Init percpu seeds for random tags after cpus are set up. */
> +       kasan_init_sw_tags();
>  }
>
>  /*
> --
> 2.45.1
>

Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl at gmail.com>

Thank you!



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