linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v10 3/5] fork: support VMAP_STACK with KASAN

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Message-ID: <6dd97cbd-b3ac-3f53-36d6-489c45ddaf92@virtuozzo.com>
Date:   Tue, 29 Oct 2019 20:07:09 +0300
From:   Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>
To:     Daniel Axtens <dja@...ens.net>, kasan-dev@...glegroups.com,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, x86@...nel.org, glider@...gle.com,
        luto@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        mark.rutland@....com, dvyukov@...gle.com, christophe.leroy@....fr
Cc:     linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, gor@...ux.ibm.com,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 3/5] fork: support VMAP_STACK with KASAN_VMALLOC



On 10/29/19 7:20 AM, Daniel Axtens wrote:
> Supporting VMAP_STACK with KASAN_VMALLOC is straightforward:
> 
>  - clear the shadow region of vmapped stacks when swapping them in
>  - tweak Kconfig to allow VMAP_STACK to be turned on with KASAN
> 
> Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@...ens.net>
> ---

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

>
> diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
> index 954e875e72b1..a6e5249ad74b 100644
> --- a/kernel/fork.c
> +++ b/kernel/fork.c
> @@ -94,6 +94,7 @@
>  #include <linux/livepatch.h>
>  #include <linux/thread_info.h>
>  #include <linux/stackleak.h>
> +#include <linux/kasan.h>
>  
>  #include <asm/pgtable.h>
>  #include <asm/pgalloc.h>
> @@ -224,6 +225,9 @@ static unsigned long *alloc_thread_stack_node(struct task_struct *tsk, int node)
>  		if (!s)
>  			continue;
>  
> +		/* Clear the KASAN shadow of the stack. */
> +		kasan_unpoison_shadow(s->addr, THREAD_SIZE);
> +


Just sharing the thought. We could possibly add poisoning in free_thread_stack()
to catch possible usage of freed cached stack. But it might be a bad idea because cached
stacks supposed to be reused very quickly. So it might just add overhead without much gain.



>  		/* Clear stale pointers from reused stack. */
>  		memset(s->addr, 0, THREAD_SIZE);
>  
>