Re: [PATCH v4 0/6] kasan: add workqueue and timer stack for generic KASAN

From: Dmitry Vyukov
Date: Tue Dec 01 2020 - 09:52:25 EST


On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 3:13 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > Syzbot reports many UAF issues for workqueue or timer, see [1] and [2].
> >> > In some of these access/allocation happened in process_one_work(),
> >> > we see the free stack is useless in KASAN report, it doesn't help
> >> > programmers to solve UAF on workqueue. The same may stand for times.
> >> >
> >> > This patchset improves KASAN reports by making them to have workqueue
> >> > queueing stack and timer stack information. It is useful for programmers
> >> > to solve use-after-free or double-free memory issue.
> >> >
> >> > Generic KASAN also records the last two workqueue and timer stacks and
> >> > prints them in KASAN report. It is only suitable for generic KASAN.
> >
> > Walter, did you mail v5?
> > Checking statuses of KASAN issues and this seems to be not in linux-next.
> >
> >> > [1]https://groups.google.com/g/syzkaller-bugs/search?q=%22use-after-free%22+process_one_work
> >> > [2]https://groups.google.com/g/syzkaller-bugs/search?q=%22use-after-free%22%20expire_timers
> >>
> >> How are these links useful for people who do not have a gurgle account?
> >
> > This is a public mailing list archive, so effectively the same way as
> > lore links ;)
>
> Just that it asked me to log in last time. That's why I wrote the
> above. Today it does not, odd.

Some random permissions settings changes were observed before, so I
can believe that.