linux-kernel - Re: [RFC/PATCH v2 01/10] Add kernel address sanitizer infrastructure.

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Date:	Mon, 15 Sep 2014 19:28:14 +0400
From:	Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@...sung.com>
To:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
	Konstantin Serebryany <kcc@...gle.com>,
	Dmitry Chernenkov <dmitryc@...gle.com>,
	Andrey Konovalov <adech.fo@...il.com>,
	Yuri Gribov <tetra2005@...il.com>,
	Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@...il.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH v2 01/10] Add kernel address sanitizer infrastructure.

On 09/14/2014 05:35 AM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> Following sentence is confusing.  I'm not sure how to fix it.
> 


Perhaps rephrase is like this:

Do not use slub poisoning with KASan if user tracking enabled (iow slub_debug=PU).
User tracking info (allocation/free stacktraces) are stored inside slub object's metadata.
Slub poisoning overwrites slub object and it's metadata with poison value on freeing.
So if KASan will detect use after free, allocation/free stacktraces will be overwritten
and KASan won't be able to print them.


>> +Please don't use slab poisoning with KASan (slub_debug=P), beacuse if KASan will
> 
>                                                                          drop: will
> 
>> +detects use after free allocation and free stacktraces will be overwritten by
> 
> maybe:     use after free,
> 
>> +poison bytes, and KASan won't be able to print this backtraces.
> 
>                                                        backtrace.
> 
>> +
>> +Each shadow byte corresponds to 8 bytes of the main memory. We use the
>> +following encoding for each shadow byte: 0 means that all 8 bytes of the
>> +corresponding memory region are addressable; k (1 <= k <= 7) means that
>> +the first k bytes are addressable, and other (8 - k) bytes are not;
>> +any negative value indicates that the entire 8-byte word is unaddressable.
>> +We use different negative values to distinguish between different kinds of
>> +unaddressable memory (redzones, freed memory) (see mm/kasan/kasan.h).
>> +
> 
> Is there any need for something similar to k (1 <= k <= 7) but meaning that the
> *last* k bytes are addressable instead of the first k bytes?
> 

There is no need for that. Slub allocations are always 8 byte aligned (at least on 64bit systems).
Now I realized that it could be a problem for 32bit systems. Anyway, the best way to deal
with that would be align allocation to 8 bytes.

>> +Poisoning or unpoisoning a byte in the main memory means writing some special
>> +value into the corresponding shadow memory. This value indicates whether the
>> +byte is addressable or not.
>> +
> 


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