linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kcsan: Fix 0-sized checks

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Message-ID: <20200205153735.GY2935@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72>
Date:   Wed, 5 Feb 2020 07:37:35 -0800
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
To:     Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>
Cc:     andreyknvl@...gle.com, glider@...gle.com, dvyukov@...gle.com,
        kasan-dev@...glegroups.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kcsan: Fix 0-sized checks

On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 11:14:19AM +0100, Marco Elver wrote:
> Instrumentation of arbitrary memory-copy functions, such as user-copies,
> may be called with size of 0, which could lead to false positives.
> 
> To avoid this, add a comparison in check_access() for size==0, which
> will be optimized out for constant sized instrumentation
> (__tsan_{read,write}N), and therefore not affect the common-case
> fast-path.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>

Queued, thank you!

							Thanx, Paul

> ---
>  kernel/kcsan/core.c |  7 +++++++
>  kernel/kcsan/test.c | 10 ++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 17 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/kcsan/core.c b/kernel/kcsan/core.c
> index e3c7d8f34f2ff..82c2bef827d42 100644
> --- a/kernel/kcsan/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/kcsan/core.c
> @@ -455,6 +455,13 @@ static __always_inline void check_access(const volatile void *ptr, size_t size,
>  	atomic_long_t *watchpoint;
>  	long encoded_watchpoint;
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * Do nothing for 0 sized check; this comparison will be optimized out
> +	 * for constant sized instrumentation (__tsan_{read,write}N).
> +	 */
> +	if (unlikely(size == 0))
> +		return;
> +
>  	/*
>  	 * Avoid user_access_save in fast-path: find_watchpoint is safe without
>  	 * user_access_save, as the address that ptr points to is only used to
> diff --git a/kernel/kcsan/test.c b/kernel/kcsan/test.c
> index cc6000239dc01..d26a052d33838 100644
> --- a/kernel/kcsan/test.c
> +++ b/kernel/kcsan/test.c
> @@ -92,6 +92,16 @@ static bool test_matching_access(void)
>  		return false;
>  	if (WARN_ON(matching_access(9, 1, 10, 1)))
>  		return false;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * An access of size 0 could match another access, as demonstrated here.
> +	 * Rather than add more comparisons to 'matching_access()', which would
> +	 * end up in the fast-path for *all* checks, check_access() simply
> +	 * returns for all accesses of size 0.
> +	 */
> +	if (WARN_ON(!matching_access(8, 8, 12, 0)))
> +		return false;
> +
>  	return true;
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 2.25.0.341.g760bfbb309-goog
>