linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kasan: avoid overflowing quarantine size on low memory systems

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Date:	Tue, 2 Aug 2016 12:15:25 +0200
From:	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
To:	Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
Cc:	Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>,
	Kostya Serebryany <kcc@...gle.com>,
	Andrey Konovalov <adech.fo@...il.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Joonsoo Kim <js1304@...il.com>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
	Kuthonuzo Luruo <kuthonuzo.luruo@....com>,
	kasan-dev <kasan-dev@...glegroups.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kasan: avoid overflowing quarantine size on low memory systems

On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 12:07 PM, Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 12:05 PM, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 12:00 PM, Andrey Ryabinin
>> <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 08/01/2016 05:59 PM, Alexander Potapenko wrote:
>>>> If the total amount of memory assigned to quarantine is less than the
>>>> amount of memory assigned to per-cpu quarantines, |new_quarantine_size|
>>>> may overflow. Instead, set it to zero.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Just curious, how did find this?
>>> Overflow is possible if system has more than 32 cpus per GB of memory. AFIAK this quite unusual.
>>
>> I was reading code for unrelated reason.
>>
>>>> Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
>>>> Fixes: 55834c59098d ("mm: kasan: initial memory quarantine
>>>> implementation")
>>>> Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>  mm/kasan/quarantine.c | 12 ++++++++++--
>>>>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/mm/kasan/quarantine.c b/mm/kasan/quarantine.c
>>>> index 65793f1..416d3b0 100644
>>>> --- a/mm/kasan/quarantine.c
>>>> +++ b/mm/kasan/quarantine.c
>>>> @@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ void quarantine_put(struct kasan_free_meta *info, struct kmem_cache *cache)
>>>>
>>>>  void quarantine_reduce(void)
>>>>  {
>>>> -     size_t new_quarantine_size;
>>>> +     size_t new_quarantine_size, percpu_quarantines;
>>>>       unsigned long flags;
>>>>       struct qlist_head to_free = QLIST_INIT;
>>>>       size_t size_to_free = 0;
>>>> @@ -214,7 +214,15 @@ void quarantine_reduce(void)
>>>>        */
>>>>       new_quarantine_size = (READ_ONCE(totalram_pages) << PAGE_SHIFT) /
>>>>               QUARANTINE_FRACTION;
>>>> -     new_quarantine_size -= QUARANTINE_PERCPU_SIZE * num_online_cpus();
>>>> +     percpu_quarantines = QUARANTINE_PERCPU_SIZE * num_online_cpus();
>>>> +     if (new_quarantine_size < percpu_quarantines) {
>>>> +             WARN_ONCE(1,
>>>> +                     "Too little memory, disabling global KASAN quarantine.\n",
>>>> +             );
>>>
>>> Why WARN? I'd suggest pr_warn_once();
>>
>>
>> I would suggest to just do something useful. Setting quarantine
>> new_quarantine_size to 0 looks fine.
>> What would user do with this warning? Number of CPUs and amount of
>> memory are generally fixed. Why is it an issue for end user at all? We
>> still have some quarantine per-cpu. A WARNING means a [non-critical]
>> kernel bug. E.g. syzkaller will catch each and every boot of such
>> system as a bug.
> How about printk_once then?
> Silently setting the quarantine size to zero may puzzle the user.


We still have per-cpu quarantine.
new_quarantine_size==0 is not radically different from
new_quarantine_size==1. Both limit KASAN ability to detect UAF. Why do
we WARN in the former case but not in the latter?
We can print per-cpu/global quarantine sizes to console. Then if we
got any complaints we can figure out what happens from the log.



>>>> +             new_quarantine_size = 0;
>>>> +     } else {
>>>> +             new_quarantine_size -= percpu_quarantines;
>>>> +     }
>>>>       WRITE_ONCE(quarantine_size, new_quarantine_size);
>>>>
>>>>       last = global_quarantine.head;
>>>>
>
>
>
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