linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] LoongArch: Add kernel address sanitizer support

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Message-ID: <2360000f-7292-9da8-d6b5-94b125c5f2b0@loongson.cn>
Date:   Thu, 30 Mar 2023 12:32:53 +0800
From:   Qing Zhang <zhangqing@...ngson.cn>
To:     Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...il.com>
Cc:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com>,
        WANG Xuerui <kernel@...0n.name>,
        Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@...goat.com>,
        kasan-dev@...glegroups.com, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, loongarch@...ts.linux.dev,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] LoongArch: Add kernel address sanitizer support



On 2023/3/30 上午10:55, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 4:06 AM Qing Zhang <zhangqing@...ngson.cn> wrote:
>>
>>> But I don't think you need this check here at all: addr_has_metadata
>>> already checks that shadow exists.
>>>
>> On LongArch, there's a lot of holes between different segments, so kasan
>> shadow area is some different type of memory that we concatenate, we
>> can't use if (unlikely((void *)addr <
>> kasan_shadow_to_mem((void *)KASAN_SHADOW_START))) to determine the
>> validity, and in arch/loongarch/include/asm/kasan.h I construct invalid
>> NULL.
> 
> I get that, but you already added a special case for
> __HAVE_ARCH_SHADOW_MAP to addr_has_metadata, so you can just call it?
> 
ok, all the changes are going to be in v2.

Thanks,
-Qing
>> This is because in pagetable_init on loongarch/mips, we populate pmd/pud
>> with invalid_pmd_table/invalid_pud_table,
> 
> I see. Please add this into the patch description for v2.
> 
>> So pmd_init/pud_init(p) is required, perhaps we define them as __weak in
>> mm/kasan/init.c, like mm/sparse-vmemmap.c.
> 
> Yes, this makes sense to do, so that KASAN doesn't depend on
> definitions from sparse-vmemmap.c.
> 
> Thank you!
>