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authorAndrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>2020-12-22 23:02:31 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-12-22 23:55:08 +0300
commitc696de9f12b7ddeddc05d378fc4dc0f66e9a8c95 (patch)
tree54b726194d683f26e26681e957ae3385d0cf471b /mm/kasan/common.c
parent29f080881601c90d39c8fa31c125ac70b8894b5e (diff)
downloadlinux-c696de9f12b7ddeddc05d378fc4dc0f66e9a8c95.tar.xz
kasan: simplify quarantine_put call site
Patch series "kasan: boot parameters for hardware tag-based mode", v4. === Overview Hardware tag-based KASAN mode [1] is intended to eventually be used in production as a security mitigation. Therefore there's a need for finer control over KASAN features and for an existence of a kill switch. This patchset adds a few boot parameters for hardware tag-based KASAN that allow to disable or otherwise control particular KASAN features, as well as provides some initial optimizations for running KASAN in production. There's another planned patchset what will further optimize hardware tag-based KASAN, provide proper benchmarking and tests, and will fully enable tag-based KASAN for production use. Hardware tag-based KASAN relies on arm64 Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) [2] to perform memory and pointer tagging. Please see [3] and [4] for detailed analysis of how MTE helps to fight memory safety problems. The features that can be controlled are: 1. Whether KASAN is enabled at all. 2. Whether KASAN collects and saves alloc/free stacks. 3. Whether KASAN panics on a detected bug or not. The patch titled "kasan: add and integrate kasan boot parameters" of this series adds a few new boot parameters. kasan.mode allows to choose one of three main modes: - kasan.mode=off - KASAN is disabled, no tag checks are performed - kasan.mode=prod - only essential production features are enabled - kasan.mode=full - all KASAN features are enabled The chosen mode provides default control values for the features mentioned above. However it's also possible to override the default values by providing: - kasan.stacktrace=off/on - enable stacks collection (default: on for mode=full, otherwise off) - kasan.fault=report/panic - only report tag fault or also panic (default: report) If kasan.mode parameter is not provided, it defaults to full when CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL is enabled, and to prod otherwise. It is essential that switching between these modes doesn't require rebuilding the kernel with different configs, as this is required by the Android GKI (Generic Kernel Image) initiative. === Benchmarks For now I've only performed a few simple benchmarks such as measuring kernel boot time and slab memory usage after boot. There's an upcoming patchset which will optimize KASAN further and include more detailed benchmarking results. The benchmarks were performed in QEMU and the results below exclude the slowdown caused by QEMU memory tagging emulation (as it's different from the slowdown that will be introduced by hardware and is therefore irrelevant). KASAN_HW_TAGS=y + kasan.mode=off introduces no performance or memory impact compared to KASAN_HW_TAGS=n. kasan.mode=prod (manually excluding tagging) introduces 3% of performance and no memory impact (except memory used by hardware to store tags) compared to kasan.mode=off. kasan.mode=full has about 40% performance and 30% memory impact over kasan.mode=prod. Both come from alloc/free stack collection. === Notes This patchset is available here: https://github.com/xairy/linux/tree/up-boot-mte-v4 This patchset is based on v11 of "kasan: add hardware tag-based mode for arm64" patchset [1]. For testing in QEMU hardware tag-based KASAN requires: 1. QEMU built from master [6] (use "-machine virt,mte=on -cpu max" arguments to run). 2. GCC version 10. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/cover.1606161801.git.andreyknvl@google.com/T/#t [2] https://community.arm.com/developer/ip-products/processors/b/processors-ip-blog/posts/enhancing-memory-safety [3] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.09517.pdf [4] https://github.com/microsoft/MSRC-Security-Research/blob/master/papers/2020/Security%20analysis%20of%20memory%20tagging.pdf [5] https://source.android.com/devices/architecture/kernel/generic-kernel-image [6] https://github.com/qemu/qemu === Tags Tested-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> This patch (of 19): Move get_free_info() call into quarantine_put() to simplify the call site. No functional changes. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1606162397.git.andreyknvl@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/312d0a3ef92cc6dc4fa5452cbc1714f9393ca239.1606162397.git.andreyknvl@google.com Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/Iab0f04e7ebf8d83247024b7190c67c3c34c7940f Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Tested-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Evgenii Stepanov <eugenis@google.com> Cc: Branislav Rankov <Branislav.Rankov@arm.com> Cc: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/kasan/common.c b/mm/kasan/common.c
index 02613883846e..34a9d4a8a5ff 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/common.c
+++ b/mm/kasan/common.c
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ static bool __kasan_slab_free(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object,
kasan_set_free_info(cache, object, tag);
- quarantine_put(get_free_info(cache, object), cache);
+ quarantine_put(cache, object);
return IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC);
}