linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] kernel/memremap, kasan: Make ZONE

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Date:   Fri, 29 Jun 2018 10:13:31 -0700
From:   Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:     Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        david <david@...morbit.com>, kasan-dev@...glegroups.com,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] kernel/memremap, kasan: Make ZONE_DEVICE with work
 with KASAN

On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 9:49 AM, Andrey Ryabinin
<aryabinin@...tuozzo.com> wrote:
> KASAN learns about hot added memory via the memory hotplug notifier.
> The devm_memremap_pages() intentionally skips calling memory hotplug
> notifiers. So KASAN doesn't know anything about new memory added
> by devm_memremap_pages(). This causes to crash when KASAN tries to
> access non-existent shadow memory:
>
>  BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffed0078000000
>  RIP: 0010:check_memory_region+0x82/0x1e0
>  Call Trace:
>   memcpy+0x1f/0x50
>   pmem_do_bvec+0x163/0x720
>   pmem_make_request+0x305/0xac0
>   generic_make_request+0x54f/0xcf0
>   submit_bio+0x9c/0x370
>   submit_bh_wbc+0x4c7/0x700
>   block_read_full_page+0x5ef/0x870
>   do_read_cache_page+0x2b8/0xb30
>   read_dev_sector+0xbd/0x3f0
>   read_lba.isra.0+0x277/0x670
>   efi_partition+0x41a/0x18f0
>   check_partition+0x30d/0x5e9
>   rescan_partitions+0x18c/0x840
>   __blkdev_get+0x859/0x1060
>   blkdev_get+0x23f/0x810
>   __device_add_disk+0x9c8/0xde0
>   pmem_attach_disk+0x9a8/0xf50
>   nvdimm_bus_probe+0xf3/0x3c0
>   driver_probe_device+0x493/0xbd0
>   bus_for_each_drv+0x118/0x1b0
>   __device_attach+0x1cd/0x2b0
>   bus_probe_device+0x1ac/0x260
>   device_add+0x90d/0x1380
>   nd_async_device_register+0xe/0x50
>   async_run_entry_fn+0xc3/0x5d0
>   process_one_work+0xa0a/0x1810
>   worker_thread+0x87/0xe80
>   kthread+0x2d7/0x390
>   ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50
>
> Add kasan_add_zero_shadow()/kasan_remove_zero_shadow() - post mm_init()
> interface to map/unmap kasan_zero_page at requested virtual addresses.
> And use it to add/remove the shadow memory for hotpluged/unpluged
> device memory.
>
> Reported-by: Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>

Reviewed-and-tested-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>