Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm/kasan: dump alloc/free stack for page allocator

From: Andrey Konovalov
Date: Wed Sep 04 2019 - 09:44:51 EST


On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 8:51 AM Walter Wu <walter-zh.wu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This patch is KASAN report adds the alloc/free stacks for page allocator
> in order to help programmer to see memory corruption caused by page.
>
> By default, KASAN doesn't record alloc/free stack for page allocator.
> It is difficult to fix up page use-after-free issue.
>
> This feature depends on page owner to record the last stack of pages.
> It is very helpful for solving the page use-after-free or out-of-bound.
>
> KASAN report will show the last stack of page, it may be:
> a) If page is in-use state, then it prints alloc stack.
> It is useful to fix up page out-of-bound issue.
>
> BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in kmalloc_pagealloc_oob_right+0x88/0x90
> Write of size 1 at addr ffffffc0d64ea00a by task cat/115
> ...
> Allocation stack of page:
> prep_new_page+0x1a0/0x1d8
> get_page_from_freelist+0xd78/0x2748
> __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x1d4/0x1978
> kmalloc_order+0x28/0x58
> kmalloc_order_trace+0x28/0xe0
> kmalloc_pagealloc_oob_right+0x2c/0x90
>
> b) If page is freed state, then it prints free stack.
> It is useful to fix up page use-after-free issue.
>
> BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in kmalloc_pagealloc_uaf+0x70/0x80
> Write of size 1 at addr ffffffc0d651c000 by task cat/115
> ...
> Free stack of page:
> kasan_free_pages+0x68/0x70
> __free_pages_ok+0x3c0/0x1328
> __free_pages+0x50/0x78
> kfree+0x1c4/0x250
> kmalloc_pagealloc_uaf+0x38/0x80
>
>
> This has been discussed, please refer below link.
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203967
>
> Signed-off-by: Walter Wu <walter-zh.wu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> lib/Kconfig.kasan | 9 +++++++++
> mm/kasan/common.c | 6 ++++++
> 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.kasan b/lib/Kconfig.kasan
> index 4fafba1a923b..ba17f706b5f8 100644
> --- a/lib/Kconfig.kasan
> +++ b/lib/Kconfig.kasan
> @@ -135,6 +135,15 @@ config KASAN_S390_4_LEVEL_PAGING
> to 3TB of RAM with KASan enabled). This options allows to force
> 4-level paging instead.
>
> +config KASAN_DUMP_PAGE
> + bool "Dump the page last stack information"
> + depends on KASAN && PAGE_OWNER
> + help
> + By default, KASAN doesn't record alloc/free stack for page allocator.
> + It is difficult to fix up page use-after-free issue.
> + This feature depends on page owner to record the last stack of page.
> + It is very helpful for solving the page use-after-free or out-of-bound.

I'm not sure if we need a separate config for this. Is there any
reason to not have this enabled by default?

> +
> config TEST_KASAN
> tristate "Module for testing KASAN for bug detection"
> depends on m && KASAN
> diff --git a/mm/kasan/common.c b/mm/kasan/common.c
> index 2277b82902d8..2a32474efa74 100644
> --- a/mm/kasan/common.c
> +++ b/mm/kasan/common.c
> @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
> #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
> #include <linux/bug.h>
> #include <linux/uaccess.h>
> +#include <linux/page_owner.h>
>
> #include "kasan.h"
> #include "../slab.h"
> @@ -227,6 +228,11 @@ void kasan_alloc_pages(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
>
> void kasan_free_pages(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
> {
> +#ifdef CONFIG_KASAN_DUMP_PAGE
> + gfp_t gfp_flags = GFP_KERNEL;
> +
> + set_page_owner(page, order, gfp_flags);
> +#endif
> if (likely(!PageHighMem(page)))
> kasan_poison_shadow(page_address(page),
> PAGE_SIZE << order,
> --
> 2.18.0
>
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