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authorAndrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>2015-03-13 02:26:11 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-03-13 04:46:08 +0300
commita5af5aa8b67dfdba36c853b70564fd2dfe73d478 (patch)
treed898e560802ef68b21280539040ccd19dc62678b /include/linux/vmalloc.h
parentb3c1030d50bad39383fcfa6721bd3c35463b3f3f (diff)
downloadlinux-a5af5aa8b67dfdba36c853b70564fd2dfe73d478.tar.xz
kasan, module, vmalloc: rework shadow allocation for modules
Current approach in handling shadow memory for modules is broken. Shadow memory could be freed only after memory shadow corresponds it is no longer used. vfree() called from interrupt context could use memory its freeing to store 'struct llist_node' in it: void vfree(const void *addr) { ... if (unlikely(in_interrupt())) { struct vfree_deferred *p = this_cpu_ptr(&vfree_deferred); if (llist_add((struct llist_node *)addr, &p->list)) schedule_work(&p->wq); Later this list node used in free_work() which actually frees memory. Currently module_memfree() called in interrupt context will free shadow before freeing module's memory which could provoke kernel crash. So shadow memory should be freed after module's memory. However, such deallocation order could race with kasan_module_alloc() in module_alloc(). Free shadow right before releasing vm area. At this point vfree()'d memory is not used anymore and yet not available for other allocations. New VM_KASAN flag used to indicate that vm area has dynamically allocated shadow memory so kasan frees shadow only if it was previously allocated. Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/include/linux/vmalloc.h b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
index 7d7acb35603d..0ec598381f97 100644
--- a/include/linux/vmalloc.h
+++ b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct; /* vma defining user mapping in mm_types.h */
#define VM_VPAGES 0x00000010 /* buffer for pages was vmalloc'ed */
#define VM_UNINITIALIZED 0x00000020 /* vm_struct is not fully initialized */
#define VM_NO_GUARD 0x00000040 /* don't add guard page */
+#define VM_KASAN 0x00000080 /* has allocated kasan shadow memory */
/* bits [20..32] reserved for arch specific ioremap internals */
/*