[PATCH v7 0/4] kasan: memorize and print call_rcu stack
Walter Wu
walter-zh.wu at mediatek.com
Tue Jun 23 04:08:52 EDT 2020
On Mon, 2020-06-01 at 13:08 +0800, Walter Wu wrote:
> This patchset improves KASAN reports by making them to have
> call_rcu() call stack information. It is useful for programmers
> to solve use-after-free or double-free memory issue.
>
> The KASAN report was as follows(cleaned up slightly):
>
> BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in kasan_rcu_reclaim+0x58/0x60
>
> Freed by task 0:
> kasan_save_stack+0x24/0x50
> kasan_set_track+0x24/0x38
> kasan_set_free_info+0x18/0x20
> __kasan_slab_free+0x10c/0x170
> kasan_slab_free+0x10/0x18
> kfree+0x98/0x270
> kasan_rcu_reclaim+0x1c/0x60
>
> Last call_rcu():
> kasan_save_stack+0x24/0x50
> kasan_record_aux_stack+0xbc/0xd0
> call_rcu+0x8c/0x580
> kasan_rcu_uaf+0xf4/0xf8
>
> Generic KASAN will record the last two call_rcu() call stacks and
> print up to 2 call_rcu() call stacks in KASAN report. it is only
> suitable for generic KASAN.
>
> This feature considers the size of struct kasan_alloc_meta and
> kasan_free_meta, we try to optimize the structure layout and size
> , lets it get better memory consumption.
>
> [1]https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198437
> [2]https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/kasan-dev/better$20stack$20traces$20for$20rcu%7Csort:date/kasan-dev/KQsjT_88hDE/7rNUZprRBgAJ
>
> Changes since v1:
> - remove new config option, default enable it in generic KASAN
> - test this feature in SLAB/SLUB, it is pass.
> - modify macro to be more clearly
> - modify documentation
>
> Changes since v2:
> - change recording from first/last to the last two call stacks
> - move free track into kasan free meta
> - init slab_free_meta on object slot creation
> - modify documentation
>
> Changes since v3:
> - change variable name to be more clearly
> - remove the redundant condition
> - remove init free meta-data and increasing object condition
>
> Changes since v4:
> - add a macro KASAN_KMALLOC_FREETRACK in order to check whether
> print free stack
> - change printing message
> - remove descriptions in Kocong.kasan
>
> Changes since v5:
> - reuse print_stack() in print_track()
>
> Changes since v6:
> - fix typo
> - renamed the variable name in testcase
>
> Walter Wu (4):
> rcu: kasan: record and print call_rcu() call stack
> kasan: record and print the free track
> kasan: add tests for call_rcu stack recording
> kasan: update documentation for generic kasan
>
Hi Andrew,
Would you tell me why don't pick up this patches?
Do I miss something?
I will want to implement another new patches, but it need to depend on
this patches.
Thanks for your helps.
Walter
> Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst | 3 +++
> include/linux/kasan.h | 2 ++
> kernel/rcu/tree.c | 2 ++
> lib/test_kasan.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> mm/kasan/common.c | 26 ++++----------------------
> mm/kasan/generic.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> mm/kasan/generic_report.c | 1 +
> mm/kasan/kasan.h | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++--
> mm/kasan/quarantine.c | 1 +
> mm/kasan/report.c | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------
> mm/kasan/tags.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 11 files changed, 171 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
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