linux-kernel - [PATCH] kfence: unpoison pool region before use

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Date:   Fri,  2 Apr 2021 22:13:25 -0700
From:   Peter Collingbourne <pcc@...gle.com>
To:     Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
Cc:     Peter Collingbourne <pcc@...gle.com>,
        Evgenii Stepanov <eugenis@...gle.com>,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...il.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] kfence: unpoison pool region before use

If the memory region allocated by KFENCE had previously been poisoned,
any validity checks done using kasan_byte_accessible() will fail. Fix
it by unpoisoning the memory before using it as the pool region.

Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/I0af99e9f1c25eaf7e1ec295836b5d148d76940c5
Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@...gle.com>
---
 mm/kfence/core.c | 12 +++++++++---
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/kfence/core.c b/mm/kfence/core.c
index d53c91f881a4..bb22b0cf77aa 100644
--- a/mm/kfence/core.c
+++ b/mm/kfence/core.c
@@ -633,13 +633,19 @@ static DECLARE_DELAYED_WORK(kfence_timer, toggle_allocation_gate);
 
 void __init kfence_alloc_pool(void)
 {
+	void *pool;
+
 	if (!kfence_sample_interval)
 		return;
 
-	__kfence_pool = memblock_alloc(KFENCE_POOL_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE);
-
-	if (!__kfence_pool)
+	pool = memblock_alloc(KFENCE_POOL_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE);
+	if (!pool) {
 		pr_err("failed to allocate pool\n");
+		return;
+	}
+
+	kasan_unpoison_range(pool, KFENCE_POOL_SIZE);
+	__kfence_pool = pool;
 }
 
 void __init kfence_init(void)
-- 
2.31.0.208.g409f899ff0-goog