[PATCH v3 0/6] kasan: add workqueue and timer stack for generic KASAN

[Marco Elver]

On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 at 03:57, Walter Wu <walter-zh.wu at mediatek.com> wrote:
>
> Syzbot reports many UAF issues for workqueue or timer, see [1] and [2].
> In some of these access/allocation happened in process_one_work(),
> we see the free stack is useless in KASAN report, it doesn't help
> programmers to solve UAF on workqueue. The same may stand for times.
>
> This patchset improves KASAN reports by making them to have workqueue
> queueing stack and timer stack information. It is useful for programmers
> to solve use-after-free or double-free memory issue.
>
> Generic KASAN also records the last two workqueue and timer stacks and
> prints them in KASAN report. It is only suitable for generic KASAN.
>
> [1]https://groups.google.com/g/syzkaller-bugs/search?q=%22use-after-free%22+process_one_work
> [2]https://groups.google.com/g/syzkaller-bugs/search?q=%22use-after-free%22%20expire_timers
> [3]https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198437
>
> Walter Wu (6):
> timer: kasan: record timer stack
> workqueue: kasan: record workqueue stack
> kasan: print timer and workqueue stack
> lib/test_kasan.c: add timer test case
> lib/test_kasan.c: add workqueue test case
> kasan: update documentation for generic kasan

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



> ---
>
> Changes since v2:
> - modify kasan document to be more readable.
>   Thanks for Marco suggestion.
>
> Changes since v1:
> - Thanks for Marco and Thomas suggestion.
> - Remove unnecessary code and fix commit log
> - reuse kasan_record_aux_stack() and aux_stack
>   to record timer and workqueue stack.
> - change the aux stack title for common name.
>
> ---
>
> Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst |  4 ++--
> kernel/time/timer.c               |  3 +++
> kernel/workqueue.c                |  3 +++
> lib/test_kasan.c                  | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> mm/kasan/report.c                 |  4 ++--
> 5 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
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