linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] mm/kasan: dump alloc/free stack for page allocator

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:   Tue, 10 Sep 2019 20:45:49 +0800
From:   Walter Wu <walter-zh.wu@...iatek.com>
To:     Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
CC:     Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Martin Schwidefsky" <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        "Andrey Konovalov" <andreyknvl@...gle.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        "Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>, Qian Cai <cai@....pw>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <kasan-dev@...glegroups.com>,
        <linux-mm@...ck.org>, <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        <linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org>, <wsd_upstream@...iatek.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] mm/kasan: dump alloc/free stack for page
 allocator

On Tue, 2019-09-10 at 13:53 +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 9/10/19 12:50 PM, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > For slab objects we memorize both alloc and free stacks. You'll never know in advance what information will be usefull
> > to fix an issue, so it usually better to provide more information. I don't think we should do anything different for pages.
> 
> Exactly, thanks.
> 
> > Given that we already have the page_owner responsible for providing alloc/free stacks for pages, all that we should in KASAN do is to
> > enable the feature by default. Free stack saving should be decoupled from debug_pagealloc into separate option so that it can be enabled
> > by KASAN and/or debug_pagealloc.
> 
> Right. Walter, can you do it that way, or should I?
> 
> Thanks,
> Vlastimil

I will send new patch v3.