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Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 22:46:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To: Qun-Wei Lin <qun-wei.lin@...iatek.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: krealloc: Fix MTE false alarm in __do_krealloc
On Fri, 25 Oct 2024, Qun-Wei Lin wrote:
> This patch addresses an issue introduced by commit 1a83a716ec233 ("mm:
> krealloc: consider spare memory for __GFP_ZERO") which causes MTE
> (Memory Tagging Extension) to falsely report a slab-out-of-bounds error.
>
> The problem occurs when zeroing out spare memory in __do_krealloc. The
> original code only considered software-based KASAN and did not account
> for MTE. It does not reset the KASAN tag before calling memset, leading
> to a mismatch between the pointer tag and the memory tag, resulting
> in a false positive.
>
> Example of the error:
> ==================================================================
> swapper/0: BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in __memset+0x84/0x188
> swapper/0: Write at addr f4ffff8005f0fdf0 by task swapper/0/1
> swapper/0: Pointer tag: [f4], memory tag: [fe]
> swapper/0:
> swapper/0: CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.12.
> swapper/0: Hardware name: MT6991(ENG) (DT)
> swapper/0: Call trace:
> swapper/0: dump_backtrace+0xfc/0x17c
> swapper/0: show_stack+0x18/0x28
> swapper/0: dump_stack_lvl+0x40/0xa0
> swapper/0: print_report+0x1b8/0x71c
> swapper/0: kasan_report+0xec/0x14c
> swapper/0: __do_kernel_fault+0x60/0x29c
> swapper/0: do_bad_area+0x30/0xdc
> swapper/0: do_tag_check_fault+0x20/0x34
> swapper/0: do_mem_abort+0x58/0x104
> swapper/0: el1_abort+0x3c/0x5c
> swapper/0: el1h_64_sync_handler+0x80/0xcc
> swapper/0: el1h_64_sync+0x68/0x6c
> swapper/0: __memset+0x84/0x188
> swapper/0: btf_populate_kfunc_set+0x280/0x3d8
> swapper/0: __register_btf_kfunc_id_set+0x43c/0x468
> swapper/0: register_btf_kfunc_id_set+0x48/0x60
> swapper/0: register_nf_nat_bpf+0x1c/0x40
> swapper/0: nf_nat_init+0xc0/0x128
> swapper/0: do_one_initcall+0x184/0x464
> swapper/0: do_initcall_level+0xdc/0x1b0
> swapper/0: do_initcalls+0x70/0xc0
> swapper/0: do_basic_setup+0x1c/0x28
> swapper/0: kernel_init_freeable+0x144/0x1b8
> swapper/0: kernel_init+0x20/0x1a8
> swapper/0: ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
> ==================================================================
>
> Fixes: 1a83a716ec233 ("mm: krealloc: consider spare memory for
> __GFP_ZERO")
> Signed-off-by: Qun-Wei Lin <qun-wei.lin@...iatek.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
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