linux-kernel - [PATCH mm 04/11] kasan: clean up kasan_requires

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Message-Id: <8086623407095ac1c82377a2107dcc5845f99cfa.1703188911.git.andreyknvl@google.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2023 21:04:46 +0100
From: andrey.konovalov@...ux.dev
To: Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...il.com>,
	Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
	Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@...il.com>,
	kasan-dev@...glegroups.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH mm 04/11] kasan: clean up kasan_requires_meta

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

Currently, for Generic KASAN mode, kasan_requires_meta is defined to
return kasan_stack_collection_enabled.

Even though the Generic mode does not support disabling stack trace
collection, kasan_requires_meta was implemented in this way to make it
easier to implement the disabling for the Generic mode in the future.

However, for the Generic mode, the per-object metadata also stores the
quarantine link. So even if disabling stack collection is implemented,
the per-object metadata will still be required.

Fix kasan_requires_meta to return true for the Generic mode and update
the related comments.

This change does not fix any observable bugs but rather just brings the
code to a cleaner state.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
---
 mm/kasan/kasan.h | 18 +++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/kasan/kasan.h b/mm/kasan/kasan.h
index 0e209b823b2c..38af25b9c89c 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/kasan.h
+++ b/mm/kasan/kasan.h
@@ -101,21 +101,21 @@ static inline bool kasan_sample_page_alloc(unsigned int order)
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC
 
-/* Generic KASAN uses per-object metadata to store stack traces. */
+/*
+ * Generic KASAN uses per-object metadata to store alloc and free stack traces
+ * and the quarantine link.
+ */
 static inline bool kasan_requires_meta(void)
 {
-	/*
-	 * Technically, Generic KASAN always collects stack traces right now.
-	 * However, let's use kasan_stack_collection_enabled() in case the
-	 * kasan.stacktrace command-line argument is changed to affect
-	 * Generic KASAN.
-	 */
-	return kasan_stack_collection_enabled();
+	return true;
 }
 
 #else /* CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC */
 
-/* Tag-based KASAN modes do not use per-object metadata. */
+/*
+ * Tag-based KASAN modes do not use per-object metadata: they use the stack
+ * ring to store alloc and free stack traces and do not use qurantine.
+ */
 static inline bool kasan_requires_meta(void)
 {
 	return false;
-- 
2.25.1