linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 0/6] kasan: add workqueue and timer stack for generic KASAN

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Date:   Tue, 01 Dec 2020 15:13:36 +0100
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Cc:     Walter Wu <walter-zh.wu@...iatek.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>,
        Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
        kasan-dev <kasan-dev@...glegroups.com>,
        Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        wsd_upstream <wsd_upstream@...iatek.com>,
        linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/6] kasan: add workqueue and timer stack for generic KASAN

On Tue, Dec 01 2020 at 08:59, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 5:29 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 24 2020 at 12:01, Walter Wu wrote:
>> > Syzbot reports many UAF issues for workqueue or timer, see [1] and [2].
>> > In some of these access/allocation happened in process_one_work(),
>> > we see the free stack is useless in KASAN report, it doesn't help
>> > programmers to solve UAF on workqueue. The same may stand for times.
>> >
>> > This patchset improves KASAN reports by making them to have workqueue
>> > queueing stack and timer stack information. It is useful for programmers
>> > to solve use-after-free or double-free memory issue.
>> >
>> > Generic KASAN also records the last two workqueue and timer stacks and
>> > prints them in KASAN report. It is only suitable for generic KASAN.
>
> Walter, did you mail v5?
> Checking statuses of KASAN issues and this seems to be not in linux-next.
>
>> > [1]https://groups.google.com/g/syzkaller-bugs/search?q=%22use-after-free%22+process_one_work
>> > [2]https://groups.google.com/g/syzkaller-bugs/search?q=%22use-after-free%22%20expire_timers
>>
>> How are these links useful for people who do not have a gurgle account?
>
> This is a public mailing list archive, so effectively the same way as
> lore links ;)

Just that it asked me to log in last time. That's why I wrote the
above. Today it does not, odd.

Thanks,

        tglx