[PATCH 1/4] kasan: don't tag stacks allocated with pagealloc

From: Andrey Konovalov
Date: Fri Jul 31 2020 - 09:20:55 EST


This patch prepares Software Tag-Based KASAN for stack tagging support.

With Tag-Based KASAN when kernel stacks are allocated via pagealloc
(which happens when CONFIG_VMAP_STACK is not enabled), they get tagged.
KASAN instrumentation doesn't expect the sp register to be tagged, and
this leads to false-positive reports.

Fix by resetting the tag of kernel stack pointers after allocation.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/fork.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index d03c9586d342..9cea2265e677 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ static unsigned long *alloc_thread_stack_node(struct task_struct *tsk, int node)
THREAD_SIZE_ORDER);

if (likely(page)) {
- tsk->stack = page_address(page);
+ tsk->stack = kasan_reset_tag(page_address(page));
return tsk->stack;
}
return NULL;
@@ -302,6 +302,7 @@ static unsigned long *alloc_thread_stack_node(struct task_struct *tsk,
{
unsigned long *stack;
stack = kmem_cache_alloc_node(thread_stack_cache, THREADINFO_GFP, node);
+ stack = kasan_reset_tag(stack);
tsk->stack = stack;
return stack;
}
--
2.28.0.163.g6104cc2f0b6-goog