linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 00/11] Kernel address sanitizer

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <546BE7F2.3070009@oracle.com>
Date:	Tue, 18 Nov 2014 19:44:34 -0500
From:	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
To:	Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@...il.com>
CC:	Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@...sung.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	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>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
	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" <x86@...nel.org>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/11] Kernel address sanitizer - runtime memory debugger.

On 11/18/2014 07:09 PM, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
> Yes with CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE you will get GPF instead of kasan report.
> For userspaces addresses we don't have shadow memory. In outline case
> I just check address itself before checking shadow. In inline case compiler
> just checks shadow, so there is no way to avoid GPF.
> 
> To be able to print report instead of GPF, I need to treat GPFs in a special
> way if inline instrumentation was enabled, but it's not done yet.

I went ahead and tested it with the test module, which worked perfectly. No
more complaints here...

>> > I remembered that one of the biggest changes in kasan was the introduction of
>> > inline instrumentation, so I went ahead to disable it and see if it helps. But
>> > the only result of that was having the boot process hang pretty early:
>> >
>> > [...]
>> > [    0.000000] IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 21, version 17, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
>> > [    0.000000] Processors: 20
>> > [    0.000000] smpboot: Allowing 24 CPUs, 4 hotplug CPUs
>> > [    0.000000] e820: [mem 0xd0000000-0xffffffff] available for PCI devices
>> > [    0.000000] Booting paravirtualized kernel on KVM
>> > [    0.000000] setup_percpu: NR_CPUS:8192 nr_cpumask_bits:24 nr_cpu_ids:24 nr_node_ids:1
>> > [    0.000000] PERCPU: Embedded 491 pages/cpu @ffff8808dce00000 s1971864 r8192 d31080 u2097152
>> > *HANG*
>> >
> This hang happens only with your error patch above or even without it?

It happens even without the patch.


Thanks,
Sasha
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/