[PATCH v16 2/4] kasan: allow architectures to provide an outline readiness check

From: Daniel Axtens
Date: Wed Jun 23 2021 - 23:41:09 EST


Allow architectures to define a kasan_arch_is_ready() hook that bails
out of any function that's about to touch the shadow unless the arch
says that it is ready for the memory to be accessed. This is fairly
uninvasive and should have a negligible performance penalty.

This will only work in outline mode, so an arch must specify
ARCH_DISABLE_KASAN_INLINE if it requires this.

Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@xxxxxxxxxx>

--

Both previous RFCs for ppc64 - by 2 different people - have
needed this trick! See:
- https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/592820/ # ppc64 hash series
- https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/795211/ # ppc radix series

Build tested on arm64 with SW_TAGS and x86 with INLINE: the error fires
if I add a kasan_arch_is_ready define.
---
mm/kasan/common.c | 3 +++
mm/kasan/generic.c | 3 +++
mm/kasan/kasan.h | 6 ++++++
mm/kasan/shadow.c | 6 ++++++
4 files changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/kasan/common.c b/mm/kasan/common.c
index 10177cc26d06..2baf121fb8c5 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/common.c
+++ b/mm/kasan/common.c
@@ -331,6 +331,9 @@ static inline bool ____kasan_slab_free(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object,
u8 tag;
void *tagged_object;

+ if (!kasan_arch_is_ready())
+ return false;
+
tag = get_tag(object);
tagged_object = object;
object = kasan_reset_tag(object);
diff --git a/mm/kasan/generic.c b/mm/kasan/generic.c
index 53cbf28859b5..c3f5ba7a294a 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/generic.c
+++ b/mm/kasan/generic.c
@@ -163,6 +163,9 @@ static __always_inline bool check_region_inline(unsigned long addr,
size_t size, bool write,
unsigned long ret_ip)
{
+ if (!kasan_arch_is_ready())
+ return true;
+
if (unlikely(size == 0))
return true;

diff --git a/mm/kasan/kasan.h b/mm/kasan/kasan.h
index 8f450bc28045..4dbc8def64f4 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/kasan.h
+++ b/mm/kasan/kasan.h
@@ -449,6 +449,12 @@ static inline void kasan_poison_last_granule(const void *address, size_t size) {

#endif /* CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC */

+#ifndef kasan_arch_is_ready
+static inline bool kasan_arch_is_ready(void) { return true; }
+#elif !defined(CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC) || !defined(CONFIG_KASAN_OUTLINE)
+#error kasan_arch_is_ready only works in KASAN generic outline mode!
+#endif
+
/*
* Exported functions for interfaces called from assembly or from generated
* code. Declarations here to avoid warning about missing declarations.
diff --git a/mm/kasan/shadow.c b/mm/kasan/shadow.c
index 082ee5b6d9a1..8d95ee52d019 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/shadow.c
+++ b/mm/kasan/shadow.c
@@ -73,6 +73,9 @@ void kasan_poison(const void *addr, size_t size, u8 value, bool init)
{
void *shadow_start, *shadow_end;

+ if (!kasan_arch_is_ready())
+ return;
+
/*
* Perform shadow offset calculation based on untagged address, as
* some of the callers (e.g. kasan_poison_object_data) pass tagged
@@ -99,6 +102,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kasan_poison);
#ifdef CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC
void kasan_poison_last_granule(const void *addr, size_t size)
{
+ if (!kasan_arch_is_ready())
+ return;
+
if (size & KASAN_GRANULE_MASK) {
u8 *shadow = (u8 *)kasan_mem_to_shadow(addr + size);
*shadow = size & KASAN_GRANULE_MASK;
--
2.30.2