RISC-V Linux kernel not booting up with KASAN enabled

[Chathura Rajapaksha]

Hi Alex/All,

Kernel is booting now but I get the following KASAN failure in the
bootup itself.
I didn't see this bug was reported before anywhere.

[    0.000000] Memory: 63436K/129024K available (20385K kernel code,
7120K rwdata, 4096K rodata, 2138K init, 476K bss, 65588K reserved, 0K
cma-reserved)
[    0.000000] ==================================================================
[    0.000000] BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in walk_stackframe+0x1b2/0x1e2
[    0.000000] Read of size 8 at addr ffffffff81e07c40 by task swapper/0
[    0.000000]
[    0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted
6.2.0-gae3419fbac84-dirty #7
[    0.000000] Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
[    0.000000] Call Trace:
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff8000ab9e>] walk_stackframe+0x0/0x1e2
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff80108508>] init_param_lock+0x26/0x2a
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff8000ad4c>] walk_stackframe+0x1ae/0x1e2
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff813d86e0>] dump_stack_lvl+0x22/0x36
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff813bd17a>] print_report+0x198/0x4a8
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff80108508>] init_param_lock+0x26/0x2a
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff8000ad4c>] walk_stackframe+0x1ae/0x1e2
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff8023bd52>] kasan_report+0x9a/0xc8
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff8000ad4c>] walk_stackframe+0x1ae/0x1e2
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff8000ad4c>] walk_stackframe+0x1ae/0x1e2
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff80108748>] stack_trace_save+0x88/0xa6
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff801086bc>] filter_irq_stacks+0x8a/0x8e
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff800b65e2>] devkmsg_read+0x3f8/0x3fc
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff8023b2de>] kasan_save_stack+0x2c/0x56
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff80108744>] stack_trace_save+0x84/0xa6
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff8023b31a>] kasan_set_track+0x12/0x20
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff8023b8f6>] __kasan_slab_alloc+0x58/0x5e
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff8023aeae>] __kmem_cache_create+0x21e/0x39a
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff8141623e>] create_boot_cache+0x70/0x9c
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff8141b5f6>] kmem_cache_init+0x6c/0x11e
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff8140125a>] mm_init+0xd8/0xfe
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff8140145c>] start_kernel+0x190/0x3ca
[    0.000000]
[    0.000000] The buggy address belongs to stack of task swapper/0
[    0.000000]  and is located at offset 0 in frame:
[    0.000000]  stack_trace_save+0x0/0xa6
[    0.000000]
[    0.000000] This frame has 1 object:
[    0.000000]  [32, 56) 'c'
[    0.000000]
[    0.000000] The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
[    0.000000] page:(____ptrval____) refcount:1 mapcount:0
mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x82007
[    0.000000] flags: 0x1000(reserved|zone=0)
[    0.000000] raw: 0000000000001000 ff60000007ca5090 ff60000007ca5090
0000000000000000
[    0.000000] raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000001ffffffff
[    0.000000] page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
[    0.000000]
[    0.000000] Memory state around the buggy address:
[    0.000000]  ffffffff81e07b00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00
[    0.000000]  ffffffff81e07b80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00
[    0.000000] >ffffffff81e07c00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f1 f1 f1 f1
00 00 00 f3
[    0.000000]                                            ^
[    0.000000]  ffffffff81e07c80: f3 f3 f3 f3 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00
[    0.000000]  ffffffff81e07d00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00
[    0.000000] ==================================================================

Best,
Chath

On Thu, Mar 2, 2023 at 11:25 AM Chathura Rajapaksha
<chathura.abeyrathne.lk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Alex,
>
> Thank you very much, kernel booted up with the patches you mentioned.
> Bootup was pretty slow compared to before though (on a dev board).
> I guess that is kind of expected with KASAN enabled.
> Thanks again.
>
> Regards,
> Chath
>
> On Thu, Mar 2, 2023 at 2:50 AM Alexandre Ghiti <alex at ghiti.fr> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Chatura,
> >
> > On 3/2/23 04:13, Chathura Rajapaksha wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > I observed that RISC-V Linux hangs when I enable KASAN.
> > > Without KASAN it works fine with QEMU.
> > > I am using the commit ae3419fbac845b4d3f3a9fae4cc80c68d82cdf6e
> > >
> > > When KASAN is enabled, QEMU hangs after OpenSBI prints.
> > >
> > > I noticed a similar issue was reported before in
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CACT4Y+ZmuOpyf_0vHTT4t3wkmJuW8Ezvcg7v6yDVd8YOViS=GA@mail.gmail.com/t/
> > > But I believe I have the patch mentioned in that thread.
> >
> >
> > I proposed a series that will be included in 6.3 regarding KASAN issues
> > here: https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-riscv/list/?series=718458
> >
> > Can you give it a try and tell me if it works better?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Alex
> >
> >
> > >
> > > My kernel config:
> > > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j9nU7f9MxCc_i-UHUCTvo7o6nDrcUz0w/view?usp=sharing
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Chath
> > >
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-- 
Chathura Rajapaksha
Ph.D. Candidate, Boston University