[PATCH v3 11/11] kasan: rework Kconfig settings

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Thu Jun 22 2017 - 13:16:16 EST


We get a lot of very large stack frames using gcc-7.0.1 with the default
-fsanitize-address-use-after-scope --param asan-stack=1 options, which
can easily cause an overflow of the kernel stack, e.g.

drivers/acpi/nfit/core.c:2686:1: warning: the frame size of 4080 bytes is larger than 2048 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/si.c:1756:1: warning: the frame size of 7304 bytes is larger than 2048 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/handlers.c:2200:1: warning: the frame size of 43752 bytes is larger than 2048 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c:952:1: warning: the frame size of 6032 bytes is larger than 2048 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
drivers/isdn/hardware/avm/b1.c:637:1: warning: the frame size of 13200 bytes is larger than 2048 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
drivers/media/dvb-frontends/stv090x.c:3089:1: warning: the frame size of 5880 bytes is larger than 2048 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
drivers/media/i2c/cx25840/cx25840-core.c:4964:1: warning: the frame size of 93992 bytes is larger than 2048 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2800lib.c:4994:1: warning: the frame size of 23928 bytes is larger than 2048 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_tty.c:2788:1: warning: the frame size of 7072 bytes is larger than 2048 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
fs/ntfs/mft.c:2762:1: warning: the frame size of 7432 bytes is larger than 2048 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
lib/atomic64_test.c:242:1: warning: the frame size of 12648 bytes is larger than 2048 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]

To reduce this risk, -fsanitize-address-use-after-scope is now split out
into a separate Kconfig option, vhich cannot be selected at the same
time as KMEMCHECK, leading to stack frames that are smaller than 2
kilobytes most of the time on x86_64. An earlier version of this
patch also prevented combining KASAN_EXTRA with KASAN_INLINE, but that
is no longer necessary with gcc-7.0.1.

A lot of warnings with KASAN_EXTRA go away if we disable KMEMCHECK,
as -fsanitize-address-use-after-scope seems to understand the builtin
memcpy, but adds checking code around an extern memcpy call. I had
to work around a circular dependency, as DEBUG_SLAB/SLUB depended
on !KMEMCHECK, while KASAN did it the other way round. Now we handle
both the same way.

All patches to get the frame size below 2048 bytes with CONFIG_KASAN=y
and CONFIG_KASAN_EXTRA=n have been submitted along with this patch,
so we can bring back that default now. KASAN_EXTRA=y still causes lots
of warnings but now defaults to !COMPILE_TEST to disable it in
allmodconfig, and it remains disabled in all other defconfigs since
it is a new option.

This reverts parts of commit commit 3f181b4 ("lib/Kconfig.debug:
disable -Wframe-larger-than warnings with KASAN=y").

I experimented a bit more with smaller stack frames and have another
follow-up series that reduces the warning limit for 64-bit architectures
to 1280 bytes and 1536 when CONFIG_KASAN (but not KASAN_EXTRA) is
enabled, this requires another ~25 patches to address the additional
warnings. I also have patches for all KASAN_EXTRA warnings, but we
should look at those separately and then decide whether to remove
it completely, leaving out -fsanitize-address-use-after-scope.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
---
lib/Kconfig.debug | 4 ++--
lib/Kconfig.kasan | 11 ++++++++++-
lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck | 1 +
scripts/Makefile.kasan | 3 +++
4 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index ddbef2cac189..02ec4a4da7b1 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ config ENABLE_MUST_CHECK
config FRAME_WARN
int "Warn for stack frames larger than (needs gcc 4.4)"
range 0 8192
- default 0 if KASAN
+ default 3072 if KASAN_EXTRA
default 2048 if GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY
default 1024 if !64BIT
default 2048 if 64BIT
@@ -500,7 +500,7 @@ config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT

config DEBUG_SLAB
bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
- depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB && !KMEMCHECK
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB && !KMEMCHECK && !KASAN
help
Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.kasan b/lib/Kconfig.kasan
index bd38aab05929..4d17a8f4742f 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.kasan
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.kasan
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ if HAVE_ARCH_KASAN

config KASAN
bool "KASan: runtime memory debugger"
- depends on SLUB || (SLAB && !DEBUG_SLAB)
+ depends on SLUB || SLAB
select CONSTRUCTORS
select STACKDEPOT
help
@@ -20,6 +20,15 @@ config KASAN
Currently CONFIG_KASAN doesn't work with CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB
(the resulting kernel does not boot).

+config KASAN_EXTRA
+ bool "KAsan: extra checks"
+ depends on KASAN && !COMPILE_TEST
+ help
+ This enables further checks in the kernel address sanitizer, for now
+ it only includes the address-use-after-scope check that can lead
+ to excessive kernel stack usage, frame size warnings and longer
+ compile time.
+
choice
prompt "Instrumentation type"
depends on KASAN
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck b/lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck
index 846e039a86b4..58b9f3f81dc8 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ menuconfig KMEMCHECK
bool "kmemcheck: trap use of uninitialized memory"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
depends on !X86_USE_3DNOW
+ depends on !KASAN
depends on SLUB || SLAB
depends on !CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
depends on !FUNCTION_TRACER
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.kasan b/scripts/Makefile.kasan
index 9576775a86f6..3b3148faf866 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.kasan
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.kasan
@@ -29,5 +29,8 @@ else
endif
endif

+ifdef CONFIG_KASAN_EXTRA
CFLAGS_KASAN += $(call cc-option, -fsanitize-address-use-after-scope)
endif
+
+endif
--
2.9.0