linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] kasan, arm64: don't instrument functions that enable kasan

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Message-ID: <20200731142126.GE29569@gaia>
Date:   Fri, 31 Jul 2020 15:21:27 +0100
From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:     Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>, kasan-dev@...glegroups.com,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Walter Wu <walter-zh.wu@...iatek.com>,
        Elena Petrova <lenaptr@...gle.com>,
        Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] kasan, arm64: don't instrument functions that enable
 kasan

On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 03:20:39PM +0200, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> This patch prepares Software Tag-Based KASAN for stack tagging support.
> 
> With stack tagging enabled, KASAN tags stack variable in each function
> in its prologue. In start_kernel() stack variables get tagged before KASAN
> is enabled via setup_arch()->kasan_init(). As the result the tags for
> start_kernel()'s stack variables end up in the temporary shadow memory.
> Later when KASAN gets enabled, switched to normal shadow, and starts
> checking tags, this leads to false-positive reports, as proper tags are
> missing in normal shadow.
> 
> Disable KASAN instrumentation for start_kernel(). Also disable it for
> arm64's setup_arch() as a precaution (it doesn't have any stack variables
> right now).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>

For arm64:

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>