linux-kernel - Re: [patch V2 09/29] mm/kasan: Simplify stacktrace handling

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]

Date:   Thu, 18 Apr 2019 13:39:45 +0300
From:   Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>, kasan-dev@...glegroups.com,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>,
        iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
        Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>, Chris Mason <clm@...com>,
        Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>,
        linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, dm-devel@...hat.com,
        Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>,
        Alasdair Kergon <agk@...hat.com>,
        intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@...el.com>,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch V2 09/29] mm/kasan: Simplify stacktrace handling

On 4/18/19 11:41 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Replace the indirection through struct stack_trace by using the storage
> array based interfaces.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> Acked-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>
> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
> Cc: kasan-dev@...glegroups.com
> Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org

Acked-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>

>  
>  static inline depot_stack_handle_t save_stack(gfp_t flags)
>  {
>  	unsigned long entries[KASAN_STACK_DEPTH];
> -	struct stack_trace trace = {
> -		.nr_entries = 0,
> -		.entries = entries,
> -		.max_entries = KASAN_STACK_DEPTH,
> -		.skip = 0
> -	};
> +	unsigned int nr_entries;
>  
> -	save_stack_trace(&trace);
> -	filter_irq_stacks(&trace);
> -
> -	return depot_save_stack(&trace, flags);
> +	nr_entries = stack_trace_save(entries, ARRAY_SIZE(entries), 0);
> +	nr_entries = filter_irq_stacks(entries, nr_entries);
> +	return stack_depot_save(entries, nr_entries, flags);

Suggestion for further improvement:

stack_trace_save() shouldn't unwind beyond irq entry point so we wouldn't need filter_irq_stacks().
Probably all call sites doesn't care about random stack above irq entry point, so it doesn't
make sense to spend resources on unwinding non-irq stack from interrupt first an filtering out it later.

It would improve performance of stack_trace_save() called from interrupt and fix page_owner which feed unfiltered
stack to stack_depot_save(). Random non-irq part kills the benefit of using the stack_deopt_save().