linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH mm v3 30/38] kasan, vmalloc: don't tag executable vmalloc allocations

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Message-ID: <CA+fCnZfP+j6ra4vExsOg96yVHTHQy_NB65-TT=S=9Gr1X62yiA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 14 Dec 2021 20:42:00 +0100
From:   Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...il.com>
To:     andrey.konovalov@...ux.dev
Cc:     Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@...il.com>,
        kasan-dev <kasan-dev@...glegroups.com>,
        Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Peter Collingbourne <pcc@...gle.com>,
        Evgenii Stepanov <eugenis@...gle.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH mm v3 30/38] kasan, vmalloc: don't tag executable vmalloc allocations

On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 10:54 PM <andrey.konovalov@...ux.dev> wrote:
>

[...]

> @@ -3133,10 +3133,14 @@ void *__vmalloc_node_range(unsigned long size, unsigned long align,
>          * (except for the should_skip_init() check) to make sure that memory
>          * is initialized under the same conditions regardless of the enabled
>          * KASAN mode.
> +        * Tag-based KASAN modes only assign tags to non-executable
> +        * allocations, see __kasan_unpoison_vmalloc().
>          */
>         kasan_flags = KASAN_VMALLOC_VM_ALLOC;
>         if (!want_init_on_free() && want_init_on_alloc(gfp_mask))
>                 kasan_flags |= KASAN_VMALLOC_INIT;
> +       if (pgprot_val(prot) == pgprot_val(pgprot_nx(prot)))

Can simply compare with PAGE_KERNEL here to match the check in
arch_vmalloc_pgprot_modify(). Will do in v4.

> +               kasan_flags |= KASAN_VMALLOC_NOEXEC;
>         addr = kasan_unpoison_vmalloc(addr, real_size, kasan_flags);
>
>         /*
> @@ -3844,7 +3848,7 @@ struct vm_struct **pcpu_get_vm_areas(const unsigned long *offsets,
>         for (area = 0; area < nr_vms; area++)
>                 vms[area]->addr = kasan_unpoison_vmalloc(vms[area]->addr,
>                                                          vms[area]->size,
> -                                                        KASAN_VMALLOC_NONE);
> +                                                        KASAN_VMALLOC_NOEXEC);
>
>         kfree(vas);
>         return vms;
> --
> 2.25.1
>