linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 1/2] arm64: kasan: do not instrument stacktrace.c

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Date:   Mon, 23 May 2022 16:51:51 +0200
From:   andrey.konovalov@...ux.dev
To:     Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc:     Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...il.com>,
        Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@...il.com>,
        kasan-dev@...glegroups.com,
        Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/2] arm64: kasan: do not instrument stacktrace.c

From: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>

Disable KASAN instrumentation of arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c.

This speeds up Generic KASAN by 5-20%.

As a side-effect, KASAN is now unable to detect bugs in the stack trace
collection code. This is taken as an acceptable downside.

Also replace READ_ONCE_NOCHECK() with READ_ONCE() in stacktrace.c.
As the file is now not instrumented, there is no need to use the
NOCHECK version of READ_ONCE().

Suggested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>

---

Changes v1->v2:
- Updated the comment in Makefile as suggested by Mark.

---
 arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile     | 5 +++++
 arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile b/arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile
index fa7981d0d917..7075a9c6a4a6 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile
@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ CFLAGS_REMOVE_return_address.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)
 CFLAGS_REMOVE_syscall.o	 = -fstack-protector -fstack-protector-strong
 CFLAGS_syscall.o	+= -fno-stack-protector
 
+# When KASAN is enabled, a stack trace is recorded for every alloc/free, which
+# can significantly impact performance. Avoid instrumenting the stack trace
+# collection code to minimize this impact.
+KASAN_SANITIZE_stacktrace.o := n
+
 # It's not safe to invoke KCOV when portions of the kernel environment aren't
 # available or are out-of-sync with HW state. Since `noinstr` doesn't always
 # inhibit KCOV instrumentation, disable it for the entire compilation unit.
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c
index e4103e085681..33e96ae4b15f 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c
@@ -110,8 +110,8 @@ static int notrace unwind_frame(struct task_struct *tsk,
 	 * Record this frame record's values and location. The prev_fp and
 	 * prev_type are only meaningful to the next unwind_frame() invocation.
 	 */
-	frame->fp = READ_ONCE_NOCHECK(*(unsigned long *)(fp));
-	frame->pc = READ_ONCE_NOCHECK(*(unsigned long *)(fp + 8));
+	frame->fp = READ_ONCE(*(unsigned long *)(fp));
+	frame->pc = READ_ONCE(*(unsigned long *)(fp + 8));
 	frame->prev_fp = fp;
 	frame->prev_type = info.type;
 
-- 
2.25.1