linux-kernel - [Question] race during kasan_populate_vmalloc

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Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 14:40:22 +0800
From: Wupeng Ma <mawupeng1@...wei.com>
To: <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, <ryabinin.a.a@...il.com>,
	<glider@...gle.com>, <andreyknvl@...il.com>, <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
	<vincenzo.frascino@....com>
CC: <mawupeng1@...wei.com>, <kasan-dev@...glegroups.com>,
	<linux-mm@...ck.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [Question] race during kasan_populate_vmalloc_pte

Hi maintainers,

During our testing, we discovered that kasan vmalloc may trigger a false
vmalloc-out-of-bounds warning due to a race between kasan_populate_vmalloc_pte
and kasan_depopulate_vmalloc_pte.

cpu0				cpu1				cpu2
  kasan_populate_vmalloc_pte	kasan_populate_vmalloc_pte	kasan_depopulate_vmalloc_pte
								spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
  pte_none(ptep_get(ptep))
  // pte is valid here, return here
								pte_clear(&init_mm, addr, ptep);
				pte_none(ptep_get(ptep))
				// pte is none here try alloc new pages
								spin_lock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
kasan_poison
// memset kasan shadow region to 0
				page = __get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL);
				__memset((void *)page, KASAN_VMALLOC_INVALID, PAGE_SIZE);
				pte = pfn_pte(PFN_DOWN(__pa(page)), PAGE_KERNEL);
				spin_lock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
				set_pte_at(&init_mm, addr, ptep, pte);
				spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);

Since kasan shadow memory in cpu0 is set to 0xf0 which means it is not
initialized after the race in cpu1. Consequently, a false vmalloc-out-of-bounds
warning is triggered when a user attempts to access this memory region.

The root cause of this problem is the pte valid check at the start of
kasan_populate_vmalloc_pte should be removed since it is not protected by
page_table_lock. However, this may result in severe performance degradation
since pages will be frequently allocated and freed.

Is there have any thoughts on how to solve this issue?

Thank you.