Re: [PATCH v4] mm, kasan: switch SLUB to stackdepot, enable memory quarantine for SLUB

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Sat Jun 18 2016 - 11:33:26 EST


On 06/17/2016 10:27 AM, Alexander Potapenko wrote:
> For KASAN builds:
> - switch SLUB allocator to using stackdepot instead of storing the
> allocation/deallocation stacks in the objects;
> - define SLAB_RED_ZONE, SLAB_POISON, SLAB_STORE_USER to zero,
> effectively disabling these debug features, as they're redundant in
> the presence of KASAN;
> - change the freelist hook so that parts of the freelist can be put into
> the quarantine.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Alexander,

I was seeing a bunch of use-after-frees detected by kasan, such as:

BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in rb_next+0x117/0x1b0 at addr ffff8800b01d4f30
Read of size 8 by task syz-executor/31594
CPU: 2 PID: 31594 Comm: syz-executor Tainted: G W 4.7.0-rc2-sasha-00205-g2d8a14b #3117
1ffff10015450f0f 000000007b9351fc ffff8800aa287900 ffffffffa002778b
ffffffff00000002 fffffbfff5630d30 0000000041b58ab3 ffffffffaaad5648
ffffffffa002761c ffffffff9e006ab6 ffffffffa8439f65 ffffffffffffffff
Call Trace:
[<ffffffffa002778b>] dump_stack+0x16f/0x1d4
[<ffffffff9e79e8cf>] kasan_report_error+0x59f/0x8c0
[<ffffffff9e79ee06>] __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x66/0x90
[<ffffffffa003ccf7>] rb_next+0x117/0x1b0
[<ffffffff9e71627c>] validate_mm_rb+0xac/0xd0
[<ffffffff9e718594>] __vma_link_rb+0x2e4/0x310
[<ffffffff9e718650>] vma_link+0x90/0x1b0
[<ffffffff9e722870>] mmap_region+0x13a0/0x13c0
[<ffffffff9e7232b2>] do_mmap+0xa22/0xaf0
[<ffffffff9e6c86bf>] vm_mmap_pgoff+0x14f/0x1c0
[<ffffffff9e71ba8b>] SyS_mmap_pgoff+0x81b/0x910
[<ffffffff9e1bf966>] SyS_mmap+0x16/0x20
[<ffffffff9e006ab6>] do_syscall_64+0x2a6/0x490
[<ffffffffa8439f65>] entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25
Object at ffff8800b01d4f00, in cache vm_area_struct
Object allocated with size 192 bytes.
Allocation:
PID = 8855
(stack is not available)
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff8800b01d4e00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff8800b01d4e80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff8800b01d4f00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
^
ffff8800b01d4f80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
ffff8800b01d5000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

Or:

BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in validate_mm_rb+0x73/0xd0 at addr ffff8800b01d4f38
Read of size 8 by task syz-executor/31594
CPU: 2 PID: 31594 Comm: syz-executor Tainted: G B W 4.7.0-rc2-sasha-00205-g2d8a14b #3117
1ffff10015450f16 000000007b9351fc ffff8800aa287938 ffffffffa002778b
ffffffff00000002 fffffbfff5630d30 0000000041b58ab3 ffffffffaaad5648
ffffffffa002761c ffffffffa84399e8 0000000000000010 ffff8800b61e8000
Call Trace:
[<ffffffffa002778b>] dump_stack+0x16f/0x1d4
[<ffffffff9e79e8cf>] kasan_report_error+0x59f/0x8c0
[<ffffffff9e79ee06>] __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x66/0x90
[<ffffffff9e716243>] validate_mm_rb+0x73/0xd0
[<ffffffff9e718594>] __vma_link_rb+0x2e4/0x310
[<ffffffff9e718650>] vma_link+0x90/0x1b0
[<ffffffff9e722870>] mmap_region+0x13a0/0x13c0
[<ffffffff9e7232b2>] do_mmap+0xa22/0xaf0
[<ffffffff9e6c86bf>] vm_mmap_pgoff+0x14f/0x1c0
[<ffffffff9e71ba8b>] SyS_mmap_pgoff+0x81b/0x910
[<ffffffff9e1bf966>] SyS_mmap+0x16/0x20
[<ffffffff9e006ab6>] do_syscall_64+0x2a6/0x490
[<ffffffffa8439f65>] entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25
Object at ffff8800b01d4f00, in cache vm_area_struct
Object allocated with size 192 bytes.
Allocation:
PID = 8855
(stack is not available)
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff8800b01d4e00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff8800b01d4e80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff8800b01d4f00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
^
ffff8800b01d4f80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
ffff8800b01d5000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

And bisection pointed me to this commit. Now, I'm not sure how to
tell if this is memory quarantine catching something, or is just a
bug with the patch?


Thanks,
Sasha