[PATCH v4 0/6] kasan: add workqueue and timer stack for generic KASAN

Thomas Gleixner tglx at linutronix.de
Tue Dec 1 09:13:36 EST 2020


On Tue, Dec 01 2020 at 08:59, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 5:29 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de> wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 24 2020 at 12:01, Walter Wu 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.
>
> Walter, did you mail v5?
> Checking statuses of KASAN issues and this seems to be not in linux-next.
>
>> > [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
>>
>> How are these links useful for people who do not have a gurgle account?
>
> This is a public mailing list archive, so effectively the same way as
> lore links ;)

Just that it asked me to log in last time. That's why I wrote the
above. Today it does not, odd.

Thanks,

        tglx





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