linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5] kasan: add memory corruption identification for software tag-based mode

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Date:   Wed, 4 Sep 2019 11:41:06 +0800
From:   Walter Wu <walter-zh.wu@...iatek.com>
To:     Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
CC:     Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        "Alexander Potapenko" <glider@...gle.com>,
        kasan-dev <kasan-dev@...glegroups.com>,
        Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] kasan: add memory corruption identification for
 software tag-based mode

> >  const char *get_bug_type(struct kasan_access_info *info)
> >  {
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS_IDENTIFY
> > +       struct kasan_alloc_meta *alloc_meta;
> > +       struct kmem_cache *cache;
> > +       struct page *page;
> > +       const void *addr;
> > +       void *object;
> > +       u8 tag;
> > +       int i;
> > +
> > +       tag = get_tag(info->access_addr);
> > +       addr = reset_tag(info->access_addr);
> > +       page = kasan_addr_to_page(addr);
> > +       if (page && PageSlab(page)) {
> > +               cache = page->slab_cache;
> > +               object = nearest_obj(cache, page, (void *)addr);
> > +               alloc_meta = get_alloc_info(cache, object);
> > +
> > +               for (i = 0; i < KASAN_NR_FREE_STACKS; i++)
> > +                       if (alloc_meta->free_pointer_tag[i] == tag)
> > +                               return "use-after-free";
> > +               return "out-of-bounds";
> 
> I think we should keep the "invalid-access" bug type here if we failed
> to identify the bug as a "use-after-free" (and change the patch
> description accordingly).
> 
> Other than that:
> 
> Acked-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
> 
Thanks your suggestion.
If slab records is not found, it may be use-after-free or out-of-bounds.
Maybe We can think how to avoid the situation(check object range or
other?), if possible, I will send patch or adopt your suggestion
modification.

regards,
Walter