Re: [PATCH v2] kernel/memremap, kasan: Make ZONE_DEVICE with work with KASAN

[Andrew Morton]

On Fri, 29 Jun 2018 19:49:32 +0300 Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> KASAN learns about hot added memory via the memory hotplug notifier.
> The devm_memremap_pages() intentionally skips calling memory hotplug
> notifiers.

Why does it do that?

> So KASAN doesn't know anything about new memory added
> by devm_memremap_pages(). This causes to crash when KASAN tries to
> access non-existent shadow memory:
> 
>  BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffed0078000000
>  RIP: 0010:check_memory_region+0x82/0x1e0
>  Call Trace:
>   memcpy+0x1f/0x50
>   pmem_do_bvec+0x163/0x720
>   pmem_make_request+0x305/0xac0
>   generic_make_request+0x54f/0xcf0
>   submit_bio+0x9c/0x370
>   submit_bh_wbc+0x4c7/0x700
>   block_read_full_page+0x5ef/0x870
>   do_read_cache_page+0x2b8/0xb30
>   read_dev_sector+0xbd/0x3f0
>   read_lba.isra.0+0x277/0x670
>   efi_partition+0x41a/0x18f0
>   check_partition+0x30d/0x5e9
>   rescan_partitions+0x18c/0x840
>   __blkdev_get+0x859/0x1060
>   blkdev_get+0x23f/0x810
>   __device_add_disk+0x9c8/0xde0
>   pmem_attach_disk+0x9a8/0xf50
>   nvdimm_bus_probe+0xf3/0x3c0
>   driver_probe_device+0x493/0xbd0
>   bus_for_each_drv+0x118/0x1b0
>   __device_attach+0x1cd/0x2b0
>   bus_probe_device+0x1ac/0x260
>   device_add+0x90d/0x1380
>   nd_async_device_register+0xe/0x50
>   async_run_entry_fn+0xc3/0x5d0
>   process_one_work+0xa0a/0x1810
>   worker_thread+0x87/0xe80
>   kthread+0x2d7/0x390
>   ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50
> 
> Add kasan_add_zero_shadow()/kasan_remove_zero_shadow() - post mm_init()
> interface to map/unmap kasan_zero_page at requested virtual addresses.
> And use it to add/remove the shadow memory for hotpluged/unpluged
> device memory.
> 
> Reported-by: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>

No cc:stable? Which kernel version(s) do you believe need the fix?

>  include/linux/kasan.h |  13 ++-
>  kernel/memremap.c     |  10 ++
>  mm/kasan/kasan_init.c | 316 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---

It's a surprisingly large amount of ode to do something which KASAN
already does for hotplugged memory.  How come?