Re: [PATCH v2 08/34] kasan: only apply __GFP_ZEROTAGS when memory is zeroed

[Andrey Konovalov]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 6:48 PM Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 06, 2021 at 10:43:45PM +0100, andrey.konovalov@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > __GFP_ZEROTAGS should only be effective if memory is being zeroed.
> > Currently, hardware tag-based KASAN violates this requirement.
> >
> > Fix by including an initialization check along with checking for
> > __GFP_ZEROTAGS.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  mm/kasan/hw_tags.c | 3 ++-
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/kasan/hw_tags.c b/mm/kasan/hw_tags.c
> > index 0b8225add2e4..c643740b8599 100644
> > --- a/mm/kasan/hw_tags.c
> > +++ b/mm/kasan/hw_tags.c
> > @@ -199,11 +199,12 @@ void kasan_alloc_pages(struct page *page, unsigned int order, gfp_t flags)
> >        * page_alloc.c.
> >        */
> >       bool init = !want_init_on_free() && want_init_on_alloc(flags);
> > +     bool init_tags = init && (flags & __GFP_ZEROTAGS);
> >
> >       if (flags & __GFP_SKIP_KASAN_POISON)
> >               SetPageSkipKASanPoison(page);
> >
> > -     if (flags & __GFP_ZEROTAGS) {
> > +     if (init_tags) {
>
> You can probably leave this unchanged but add a WARN_ON_ONCE() if !init.
> AFAICT there's only a single place where __GFP_ZEROTAGS is passed.

Yes, there's only one such place.

In a later patch, I implement handling __GFP_ZEROTAGS in regardless of
having __GFP_ZERO present or not, so adding WARN_ON() here and then
removing it probably doesn't make much sense.

As per what you said in the other message, I've left this unchanged.

Thanks!