Re: [PATCH 1/2] kasan: fix invalid-free test crashing the kernel

[Andrey Konovalov]

On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 6:15 PM, Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When an invalid-free is triggered by one of the KASAN tests, the object
> doesn't actually get freed. This later leads to a BUG failure in
> kmem_cache_destroy that checks that there are no allocated objects in the
> cache that is being destroyed. Fix this by calling kmem_cache_free with
> the proper object address after the call that triggers invalid-free.

Note, that for this patch to fix the issue, it is supposed to go on
top of the "kasan, slub: fix handling of kasan_slab_free hook" patch I
sent recently.

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10238179/

>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  lib/test_kasan.c | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/lib/test_kasan.c b/lib/test_kasan.c
> index 98854a64b014..ec657105edbf 100644
> --- a/lib/test_kasan.c
> +++ b/lib/test_kasan.c
> @@ -567,7 +567,15 @@ static noinline void __init kmem_cache_invalid_free(void)
>                 return;
>         }
>
> +       /* Trigger invalid free, the object doesn't get freed */
>         kmem_cache_free(cache, p + 1);
> +
> +       /*
> +        * Properly free the object to prevent the "Objects remaining in
> +        * test_cache on __kmem_cache_shutdown" BUG failure.
> +        */
> +       kmem_cache_free(cache, p);
> +
>         kmem_cache_destroy(cache);
>  }
>
> --
> 2.16.2.395.g2e18187dfd-goog
>