linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] kasan: add memory corruption identification for hardware tag-based mode

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Date:   Wed, 2 Jun 2021 15:24:34 +0300
From:   Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...il.com>
To:     Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>
Cc:     Kuan-Ying Lee <kylee0686026@...il.com>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@...il.com>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        kasan-dev <kasan-dev@...glegroups.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Walter Wu <walter-zh.wu@...iatek.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] kasan: add memory corruption identification for
 hardware tag-based mode

On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 11:50 AM Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, May 30, 2021 at 12:47PM +0800, Kuan-Ying Lee wrote:
> > Add memory corruption identification at bug report for hardware tag-based
> > mode. The report shows whether it is "use-after-free" or "out-of-bound"
> > error instead of "invalid-access" error. This will make it easier for
> > programmers to see the memory corruption problem.
> >
> > We extend the slab to store five old free pointer tag and free backtrace,
> > we can check if the tagged address is in the slab record and make a good
> > guess if the object is more like "use-after-free" or "out-of-bound".
> > therefore every slab memory corruption can be identified whether it's
> > "use-after-free" or "out-of-bound".
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kuan-Ying Lee <kylee0686026@...il.com>
>
> On a whole this makes sense because SW_TAGS mode supports this, too.
>
> My main complaints are the copy-paste of the SW_TAGS code.
>
> Does it make sense to refactor per my suggestions below?
>
> This is also a question to KASAN maintainers (Andrey, any preference?).

All of your comments are valid. Thank you, Marco.