Re: KASAN poisoning for skb linear data

[Dmitry Vyukov]

On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 3:15 PM, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As far as I understand pskb_may_pull() plays important role in packet
> parsing for all protocols. And we did custom fragmentation of packets
> emitted via tun (IFF_NAPI_FRAGS). However, it seems that it does not
> give any results (bugs found), and I think the reason for this is that
> linear data is rounded up and is usually quite large. So if a parsing
> function does pskb_may_pull(1), or does not do it at all, it can
> usually access more and it will go unnoticed. KASAN has an ability to
> do custom poisoning: it can poison/unpoison any memory range, and then
> detect any reads/writes to that range. What do you think about adding
> custom KASAN poisoning to pskb_may_pull() and switching it to
> non-eager mode (pull only what was requested) under KASAN? Do you
> think it has potential for finding important bugs? What amount of work
> is this?

Filed https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199055 for this so
it's not get lost.