Why KASAN doesn't detect this stack oob fault?

From: richard clark
Date: Sat Aug 22 2020 - 23:08:36 EST


Hi guys,

I ins a kmod with below code in a KASAN enabled kernel (
5.7.0,
CONFIG_KASAN=y
CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC=y
CONFIG_KASAN_OUTLINE=y):

static int kmod_init(void)
{
int i;
int arr[4];

for (i = 0; i < 20; i++) {
arr[i] = i;
printk("arr[%d] = %d\n", i, arr[i]);
}
return 0;
}

The output is after insmod:

[ 1511.800683] arr[0] = 0
[ 1511.800685] arr[1] = 1
[ 1511.800686] arr[2] = 2
[ 1511.800687] arr[3] = 3
[ 1511.800688] arr[4] = 4
[ 1511.800690] arr[5] = 5
[ 1511.800691] arr[6] = 6
[ 1511.800692] arr[7] = 7
[ 1511.800693] arr[8] = 8
[ 1511.800694] arr[9] = 9
[ 1511.800695] arr[10] = 10
[ 1511.800696] arr[11] = 11
[ 1511.800697] arr[12] = 12
[ 1511.800699] arr[13] = 13
[ 1511.800700] arr[14] = 14
[ 1511.800701] arr[15] = 15
[ 1511.800702] arr[16] = 16
[ 1511.800704] arr[17] = 17
[ 1511.800705] arr[18] = 18
[ 1511.800706] arr[19] = 19

The kernel is not tainted and the gcc version is 7.5 used to build the kernel.
The question is:
1. Why the stack out-of-bound can work?
2. Why the KASAN doesn't detect this?