linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] kasan, arm64: fix pointer tags in KASAN reports

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Message-ID: <20210115165558.GF16707@gaia>
Date:   Fri, 15 Jan 2021 16:55:59 +0000
From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:     Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
Cc:     Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>,
        Peter Collingbourne <pcc@...gle.com>,
        Evgenii Stepanov <eugenis@...gle.com>,
        Branislav Rankov <Branislav.Rankov@....com>,
        Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@....com>,
        kasan-dev <kasan-dev@...glegroups.com>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] kasan, arm64: fix pointer tags in KASAN reports

On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 05:30:40PM +0100, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 5:54 PM Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 05:03:30PM +0100, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> > > As of the "arm64: expose FAR_EL1 tag bits in siginfo" patch, the address
> > > that is passed to report_tag_fault has pointer tags in the format of 0x0X,
> > > while KASAN uses 0xFX format (note the difference in the top 4 bits).
> > >
> > > Fix up the pointer tag before calling kasan_report.
> > >
> > > Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/I9ced973866036d8679e8f4ae325de547eb969649
> > > Fixes: dceec3ff7807 ("arm64: expose FAR_EL1 tag bits in siginfo")
> > > Fixes: 4291e9ee6189 ("kasan, arm64: print report from tag fault handler")
> > > Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
> > > ---
> > >  arch/arm64/mm/fault.c | 2 ++
> > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
> > > index 3c40da479899..a218f6f2fdc8 100644
> > > --- a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
> > > +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
> > > @@ -304,6 +304,8 @@ static void report_tag_fault(unsigned long addr, unsigned int esr,
> > >  {
> > >       bool is_write  = ((esr & ESR_ELx_WNR) >> ESR_ELx_WNR_SHIFT) != 0;
> > >
> > > +     /* The format of KASAN tags is 0xF<x>. */
> > > +     addr |= (0xF0UL << MTE_TAG_SHIFT);
> >
> > Ah, I see, that top 4 bits are zeroed by do_tag_check_fault(). When this
> > was added, the only tag faults were generated for user addresses.
> >
> > Anyway, I'd rather fix it in there based on bit 55, something like (only
> > compile-tested):
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
> > index 3c40da479899..2b71079d2d32 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
> > @@ -709,10 +709,11 @@ static int do_tag_check_fault(unsigned long far, unsigned int esr,
> >                               struct pt_regs *regs)
> >  {
> >         /*
> > -        * The architecture specifies that bits 63:60 of FAR_EL1 are UNKNOWN for tag
> > -        * check faults. Mask them out now so that userspace doesn't see them.
> > +        * The architecture specifies that bits 63:60 of FAR_EL1 are UNKNOWN
> > +        * for tag check faults. Set them to the corresponding bits in the
> > +        * untagged address.
> >          */
> > -       far &= (1UL << 60) - 1;
> > +       far = (untagged_addr(far) & ~MTE_TAG_MASK) | (far & MTE_TAG_MASK) ;
> >         do_bad_area(far, esr, regs);
> >         return 0;
> >  }
> 
> BTW, we can do "untagged_addr(far) | (far & MTE_TAG_MASK)" here, as
> untagged_addr() doesn't change kernel pointers.

untagged_addr() does change tagged kernel pointers, it sign-extends from
bit 55. So the top byte becomes 0xff and you can no longer or the tag
bits in.

-- 
Catalin