linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v3] UML: add support for KASAN under x86

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Date:   Fri, 27 May 2022 15:27:23 +0200
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:     Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Cc:     David Gow <davidgow@...gle.com>,
        Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@...s.com>,
        Patricia Alfonso <trishalfonso@...gle.com>,
        Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        anton.ivanov@...bridgegreys.com,
        Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@...gle.com>,
        kasan-dev <kasan-dev@...glegroups.com>,
        linux-um@...ts.infradead.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3] UML: add support for KASAN under x86_64

On Fri, 2022-05-27 at 15:18 +0200, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> On Fri, 27 May 2022 at 15:15, Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net> wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 2022-05-27 at 15:09 +0200, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> > > > I did note (this is more for kasan-dev@) that the "freed by" is fairly
> > > > much useless when using kfree_rcu(), it might be worthwhile to annotate
> > > > that somehow, so the stack trace is recorded by kfree_rcu() already,
> > > > rather than just showing the RCU callback used for that.
> > > 
> > > KASAN is doing it for several years now, see e.g.:
> > > https://groups.google.com/g/syzkaller-bugs/c/eTW9zom4O2o/m/_v7cOo2RFwAJ
> > > 
> > 
> > Hm. It didn't for me:
> 
> Please post a full report with line numbers and kernel version.

That was basically it, apart from a few lines snipped from the stack
traces. Kernel version was admittedly a little older - 5.18.0-rc1 + a
few UML fixes + this KASAN patch (+ the fixes I pointed out earlier)

I guess it doesn't really matter that much, just had to dig a bit to
understand why it was freed.

johannes