Re: [PATCH v11 0/4] kasan: support backing vmalloc space with real shadow memory

[Christophe Leroy]

Le 31/10/2019 Ã 10:39, Daniel Axtens a ÃcritÂ:
> Currently, vmalloc space is backed by the early shadow page. This
> means that kasan is incompatible with VMAP_STACK.
>
> This series provides a mechanism to back vmalloc space with real,
> dynamically allocated memory. I have only wired up x86, because that's
> the only currently supported arch I can work with easily, but it's
> very easy to wire up other architectures, and it appears that there is
> some work-in-progress code to do this on arm64 and s390.

There is also work for providing VMAP_STACK on powerpc32. There is a 
series waiting to be merged at 
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/list/?series=145109

Christophe

> This has been discussed before in the context of VMAP_STACK:
>   - https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202009
>   - https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/7/22/198
>   - https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/7/19/822
>
> In terms of implementation details:
>
> Most mappings in vmalloc space are small, requiring less than a full
> page of shadow space. Allocating a full shadow page per mapping would
> therefore be wasteful. Furthermore, to ensure that different mappings
> use different shadow pages, mappings would have to be aligned to
> KASAN_SHADOW_SCALE_SIZE * PAGE_SIZE.
>
> Instead, share backing space across multiple mappings. Allocate a
> backing page when a mapping in vmalloc space uses a particular page of
> the shadow region. This page can be shared by other vmalloc mappings
> later on.
>
> We hook in to the vmap infrastructure to lazily clean up unused shadow
> memory.
>
> Testing with test_vmalloc.sh on an x86 VM with 2 vCPUs shows that:
>
>   - Turning on KASAN, inline instrumentation, without vmalloc, introuduces
>     a 4.1x-4.2x slowdown in vmalloc operations.
>
>   - Turning this on introduces the following slowdowns over KASAN:
>       * ~1.76x slower single-threaded (test_vmalloc.sh performance)
>       * ~2.18x slower when both cpus are performing operations
>         simultaneously (test_vmalloc.sh sequential_test_order=1)
>
> This is unfortunate but given that this is a debug feature only, not
> the end of the world. The benchmarks are also a stress-test for the
> vmalloc subsystem: they're not indicative of an overall 2x slowdown!
>
>
> v1: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20190725055503.19507-1-dja@xxxxxxxxxx/
> v2: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20190729142108.23343-1-dja@xxxxxxxxxx/
>   Address review comments:
>   - Patch 1: use kasan_unpoison_shadow's built-in handling of
>              ranges that do not align to a full shadow byte
>   - Patch 3: prepopulate pgds rather than faulting things in
> v3: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20190731071550.31814-1-dja@xxxxxxxxxx/
>   Address comments from Mark Rutland:
>   - kasan_populate_vmalloc is a better name
>   - handle concurrency correctly
>   - various nits and cleanups
>   - relax module alignment in KASAN_VMALLOC case
> v4: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20190815001636.12235-1-dja@xxxxxxxxxx/
>   Changes to patch 1 only:
>   - Integrate Mark's rework, thanks Mark!
>   - handle the case where kasan_populate_shadow might fail
>   - poision shadow on free, allowing the alloc path to just
>       unpoision memory that it uses
> v5: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20190830003821.10737-1-dja@xxxxxxxxxx/
>   Address comments from Christophe Leroy:
>   - Fix some issues with my descriptions in commit messages and docs
>   - Dynamically free unused shadow pages by hooking into the vmap book-keeping
>   - Split out the test into a separate patch
>   - Optional patch to track the number of pages allocated
>   - minor checkpatch cleanups
> v6: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20190902112028.23773-1-dja@xxxxxxxxxx/
>   Properly guard freeing pages in patch 1, drop debugging code.
> v7: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20190903145536.3390-1-dja@xxxxxxxxxx/
>      Add a TLB flush on freeing, thanks Mark Rutland.
>      Explain more clearly how I think freeing is concurrency-safe.
> v8: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20191001065834.8880-1-dja@xxxxxxxxxx/
>      rename kasan_vmalloc/shadow_pages to kasan/vmalloc_shadow_pages
> v9: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20191017012506.28503-1-dja@xxxxxxxxxx/
>      (attempt to) address a number of review comments for patch 1.
> v10: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20191029042059.28541-1-dja@xxxxxxxxxx/
>       - rebase on linux-next, pulling in Vlad's new work on splitting the
>         vmalloc locks.
>       - after much discussion of barriers, document where I think they
>         are needed and why. Thanks Mark and Andrey.
>       - clean up some TLB flushing and checkpatch bits
> v11: Address review comments from Andrey and Vlad, drop patch 5, add benchmarking
>       results.
>
> Daniel Axtens (4):
>    kasan: support backing vmalloc space with real shadow memory
>    kasan: add test for vmalloc
>    fork: support VMAP_STACK with KASAN_VMALLOC
>    x86/kasan: support KASAN_VMALLOC
>
>   Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst |  63 ++++++++
>   arch/Kconfig                      |   9 +-
>   arch/x86/Kconfig                  |   1 +
>   arch/x86/mm/kasan_init_64.c       |  61 ++++++++
>   include/linux/kasan.h             |  31 ++++
>   include/linux/moduleloader.h      |   2 +-
>   include/linux/vmalloc.h           |  12 ++
>   kernel/fork.c                     |   4 +
>   lib/Kconfig.kasan                 |  16 +++
>   lib/test_kasan.c                  |  26 ++++
>   mm/kasan/common.c                 | 231 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   mm/kasan/generic_report.c         |   3 +
>   mm/kasan/kasan.h                  |   1 +
>   mm/vmalloc.c                      |  53 +++++--
>   14 files changed, 500 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)