[PATCH v2] kasan: infer the requested size by scanning shadow memory

Kuan-Ying Lee (李冠穎) Kuan-Ying.Lee at mediatek.com
Sat Jan 28 06:58:30 PST 2023


On Mon, 2023-01-23 at 22:46 +0100, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 10:39 AM Kuan-Ying Lee
> <Kuan-Ying.Lee at mediatek.com> wrote:
> > 
> > We scan the shadow memory to infer the requested size instead of
> > printing cache->object_size directly.
> > 
> > This patch will fix the confusing kasan slab-out-of-bounds
> > report like below. [1]
> > Report shows "cache kmalloc-192 of size 192", but user
> > actually kmalloc(184).
> > 
> > ==================================================================
> > BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in _find_next_bit+0x143/0x160
> > lib/find_bit.c:109
> > Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880175766b8 by task kworker/1:1/26
> > ...
> > The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888017576600
> >  which belongs to the cache kmalloc-192 of size 192
> > The buggy address is located 184 bytes inside of
> >  192-byte region [ffff888017576600, ffff8880175766c0)
> > ...
> > Memory state around the buggy address:
> >  ffff888017576580: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
> >  ffff888017576600: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> > > ffff888017576680: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
> > 
> >                                         ^
> >  ffff888017576700: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
> >  ffff888017576780: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
> > ==================================================================
> > 
> > After this patch, slab-out-of-bounds report will show as below.
> > ==================================================================
> > ...
> > The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888017576600
> >  which belongs to the cache kmalloc-192 of size 192
> > The buggy address is located 0 bytes right of
> >  allocated 184-byte region [ffff888017576600, ffff8880175766b8)
> > ...
> > ==================================================================
> > 
> > Link: 
> > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216457__;!!CTRNKA9wMg0ARbw!iEOOICl7DzhvfYobmQ8MsNFAWmbqicXdjd0LYWw9uBOqwj8lai7oEODVdRJyWUEXr11A3-m7wbIX2cdpxLwiW6Tm$
> > $   [1]
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Kuan-Ying Lee <Kuan-Ying.Lee at mediatek.com>
> > ---
> > V1 -> V2:
> >  - Implement getting allocated size of object for tag-based kasan.
> >  - Refine the kasan report.
> >  - Check if it is slab-out-of-bounds report type.
> >  - Thanks for Andrey and Dmitry suggestion.
> 
> Hi Kuan-Ying,
> 
> I came up with a few more things to fix while testing your patch and
> decided to address them myself. Please check the v3 here:
> 
> 
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://github.com/xairy/linux/commit/012a584a9f11ba08a6051b075f7fd0a0eb54c719__;!!CTRNKA9wMg0ARbw!iEOOICl7DzhvfYobmQ8MsNFAWmbqicXdjd0LYWw9uBOqwj8lai7oEODVdRJyWUEXr11A3-m7wbIX2cdpxNwCtfpJ$ 
>  
> 
> The significant changes are to print "freed" for a slab-use-after-
> free
> and only print the region state for the Generic mode (printing it for
> Tag-Based modes doesn't work properly atm, see the comment in the
> code). The rest is clean-ups and a few added comments. See the full
> list of changes in the commit message.
> 
> Please check whether this v3 looks good to you, and then feel free to
> submit it.

It looks good to me.
I will send the v3.
Thank you.

> Thank you!


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