linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 07/31] kasan: only apply __GFP

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Date:   Thu, 2 Dec 2021 16:40:21 +0100
From:   Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
To:     andrey.konovalov@...ux.dev
Cc:     Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>,
        Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Peter Collingbourne <pcc@...gle.com>,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...il.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>,
        kasan-dev@...glegroups.com,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Evgenii Stepanov <eugenis@...gle.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/31] kasan: only apply __GFP_ZEROTAGS when memory is zeroed

On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 10:41 PM <andrey.konovalov@...ux.dev> wrote:
>
> From: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
>
> __GFP_ZEROTAGS should only be effective if memory is being zeroed.
> Currently, hardware tag-based KASAN violates this requirement.
>
> Fix by including an initialization check along with checking for
> __GFP_ZEROTAGS.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>

> ---
>  mm/kasan/hw_tags.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/kasan/hw_tags.c b/mm/kasan/hw_tags.c
> index 0b8225add2e4..c643740b8599 100644
> --- a/mm/kasan/hw_tags.c
> +++ b/mm/kasan/hw_tags.c
> @@ -199,11 +199,12 @@ void kasan_alloc_pages(struct page *page, unsigned int order, gfp_t flags)
>          * page_alloc.c.
>          */
>         bool init = !want_init_on_free() && want_init_on_alloc(flags);
> +       bool init_tags = init && (flags & __GFP_ZEROTAGS);
>
>         if (flags & __GFP_SKIP_KASAN_POISON)
>                 SetPageSkipKASanPoison(page);
>
> -       if (flags & __GFP_ZEROTAGS) {
> +       if (init_tags) {
>                 int i;
>
>                 for (i = 0; i != 1 << order; ++i)
> --
> 2.25.1
>


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