Re: [PATCH] kasan: fix kasan_check_read/write definitions

From: Nathan Chancellor
Date: Mon Jan 07 2019 - 21:27:08 EST


On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 02:34:35PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Building little-endian allmodconfig kernels on arm64 started failing
> with the generated atomic.h implementation, since we now try to call
> kasan helpers from the EFI stub:
>
> aarch64-linux-gnu-ld: drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm-stub.stub.o: in function `atomic_set':
> include/generated/atomic-instrumented.h:44: undefined reference to `__efistub_kasan_check_write'
>
> I suspect that we get similar problems in other files that explicitly
> disable KASAN for some reason but call atomic_t based helper functions.
>
> We can fix this by checking the predefined __SANITIZE_ADDRESS__ macro
> that the compiler sets instead of checking CONFIG_KASAN, but this in turn
> requires a small hack in mm/kasan/common.c so we do see the extern
> declaration there instead of the inline function.
>
> Fixes: b1864b828644 ("locking/atomics: build atomic headers as required")
> Reported-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/kasan-checks.h | 2 +-
> mm/kasan/common.c | 2 ++
> 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/kasan-checks.h b/include/linux/kasan-checks.h
> index d314150658a4..a61dc075e2ce 100644
> --- a/include/linux/kasan-checks.h
> +++ b/include/linux/kasan-checks.h
> @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
> #ifndef _LINUX_KASAN_CHECKS_H
> #define _LINUX_KASAN_CHECKS_H
>
> -#ifdef CONFIG_KASAN
> +#if defined(__SANITIZE_ADDRESS__) || defined(__KASAN_INTERNAL)
> void kasan_check_read(const volatile void *p, unsigned int size);
> void kasan_check_write(const volatile void *p, unsigned int size);
> #else
> diff --git a/mm/kasan/common.c b/mm/kasan/common.c
> index 03d5d1374ca7..51a7932c33a3 100644
> --- a/mm/kasan/common.c
> +++ b/mm/kasan/common.c
> @@ -14,6 +14,8 @@
> *
> */
>
> +#define __KASAN_INTERNAL
> +
> #include <linux/export.h>
> #include <linux/interrupt.h>
> #include <linux/init.h>
> --
> 2.20.0
>

Hi all,

Was there any other movement on this patch? I am noticing this fail as
well and I have applied this patch in the meantime; it would be nice for
it to be merged so I could drop it from my stack.

Thanks,
Nathan