Re: [PATCH v7 0/4] KASAN for arm64

From: Andrey Ryabinin
Date: Mon Nov 16 2015 - 10:34:03 EST


On 11/16/2015 02:16 PM, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote:
> On 13/10/15 09:34, Catalin Marinas wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 06:52:56PM +0300, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
>>> Andrey Ryabinin (3):
>>> arm64: move PGD_SIZE definition to pgalloc.h
>>> arm64: add KASAN support
>>> Documentation/features/KASAN: arm64 supports KASAN now
>>>
>>> Linus Walleij (1):
>>> ARM64: kasan: print memory assignment
>>
>> Patches queued for 4.4. Thanks.
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> I get the following failure with KASAN + 16K_PAGES + 48BIT_VA, with 4.4-rc1:
>
>
> arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c: In function ‘kasan_early_init’:
> include/linux/compiler.h:484:38: error: call to ‘__compiletime_assert_95’ declared with attribute error: BUILD_BUG_ON failed: !IS_ALIGNED(KASAN_SHADOW_END, PGDIR_SIZE)
> _compiletime_assert(condition, msg, __compiletime_assert_, __LINE__)
> ^
> include/linux/compiler.h:467:4: note: in definition of macro ‘__compiletime_assert’
> prefix ## suffix(); \
> ^
> include/linux/compiler.h:484:2: note: in expansion of macro ‘_compiletime_assert’
> _compiletime_assert(condition, msg, __compiletime_assert_, __LINE__)
> ^
> include/linux/bug.h:50:37: note: in expansion of macro ‘compiletime_assert’
> #define BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG(cond, msg) compiletime_assert(!(cond), msg)
> ^
> include/linux/bug.h:74:2: note: in expansion of macro ‘BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG’
> BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG(condition, "BUILD_BUG_ON failed: " #condition)
> ^
> arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c:95:2: note: in expansion of macro ‘BUILD_BUG_ON’
> BUILD_BUG_ON(!IS_ALIGNED(KASAN_SHADOW_END, PGDIR_SIZE));
>
>
> ---
>
> The problem is that the PGDIR_SIZE is (1UL << 47) with 16K+48bit, which makes
> the KASAN_SHADOW_END unaligned(which is aligned to (1UL << (48 - 3)) ). Is the
> alignment really needed ? Thoughts on how best we could fix this ?
>

Yes, it's really needed, because some code relies on this (e.g. clear_pgs() and kasan_init()).
But it should be possible to get rid of this requirement.

At first we need to rework clear_pgs().
The purpose of clear_pgs() is to remove kasan shadow from swapper_pg_dir.
So clear_pgs() should clear the top most kasan_zero_* entries from page tables.
Previously it was enough to clear PGDs, in case of 16K_PAGES + 48BIT_VA we probably need to clear PMDs


We also have to change following part of kasan_init()
...
/*
* We are going to perform proper setup of shadow memory.
* At first we should unmap early shadow (clear_pgds() call bellow).
* However, instrumented code couldn't execute without shadow memory.
* tmp_pg_dir used to keep early shadow mapped until full shadow
* setup will be finished.
*/
memcpy(tmp_pg_dir, swapper_pg_dir, sizeof(tmp_pg_dir));


Besides tmp_pg_dir we will need one more temporary page table to store those entries
which later will be removed from swapper_pg_dir by clear_pgds().



> Cheers
> Suzuki
>
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