[PATCH] kasan: fix random seed generation for tag-based mode

From: Andrey Konovalov
Date: Wed Feb 20 2019 - 10:55:26 EST


There are two issues with assigning random percpu seeds right now:

1. We use for_each_possible_cpu() to iterate over cpus, but cpumask is
not set up yet at the moment of kasan_init(), and thus we only set
the seed for cpu #0.

2. A call to get_random_u32() always returns the same number and produces
a message in dmesg, since the random subsystem is not yet initialized.

Fix 1 by calling kasan_init_tags() after cpumask is set up.

Fix 2 by using get_cycles() instead of get_random_u32(). This gives us
lower quality random numbers, but it's good enough, as KASAN is meant to
be used as a debugging tool and not a mitigation.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c | 3 +++
arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c | 2 --
mm/kasan/tags.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c
index d09ec76f08cf..009849328289 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c
@@ -339,6 +339,9 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
smp_init_cpus();
smp_build_mpidr_hash();

+ /* Init percpu seeds for random tags after cpus are set up. */
+ kasan_init_tags();
+
#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_SW_TTBR0_PAN
/*
* Make sure init_thread_info.ttbr0 always generates translation
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c
index 4b55b15707a3..f37a86d2a69d 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c
@@ -252,8 +252,6 @@ void __init kasan_init(void)
memset(kasan_early_shadow_page, KASAN_SHADOW_INIT, PAGE_SIZE);
cpu_replace_ttbr1(lm_alias(swapper_pg_dir));

- kasan_init_tags();
-
/* At this point kasan is fully initialized. Enable error messages */
init_task.kasan_depth = 0;
pr_info("KernelAddressSanitizer initialized\n");
diff --git a/mm/kasan/tags.c b/mm/kasan/tags.c
index 0777649e07c4..63fca3172659 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/tags.c
+++ b/mm/kasan/tags.c
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ void kasan_init_tags(void)
int cpu;

for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
- per_cpu(prng_state, cpu) = get_random_u32();
+ per_cpu(prng_state, cpu) = (u32)get_cycles();
}

/*
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