Re: [PATCH v6 31/39] kasan, vmalloc: only tag normal vmalloc allocations

From: Vasily Gorbik
Date: Tue Mar 08 2022 - 10:17:46 EST


On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 07:05:05PM +0100, andrey.konovalov@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The kernel can use to allocate executable memory. The only supported way
> to do that is via __vmalloc_node_range() with the executable bit set in
> the prot argument. (vmap() resets the bit via pgprot_nx()).
>
> Once tag-based KASAN modes start tagging vmalloc allocations, executing
> code from such allocations will lead to the PC register getting a tag,
> which is not tolerated by the kernel.
>
> Only tag the allocations for normal kernel pages.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>

This breaks s390 and produce huge amount of false positives.
I haven't been testing linux-next with KASAN for while, now tried it with
next-20220308 and bisected false positives to this commit.

Any idea what is going wrong here?

I see 2 patterns:

[ 1.123723] BUG: KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds in ftrace_plt_init+0xb8/0xe0
[ 1.123740] Write of size 8 at addr 001bffff80000000 by task swapper/0/1
[ 1.123745]
[ 1.123749] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.17.0-rc7-118520-ga20d77ce812a #142
[ 1.123755] Hardware name: IBM 8561 T01 701 (KVM/Linux)
[ 1.123758] Call Trace:
[ 1.123761] [<000000000218e5fe>] dump_stack_lvl+0xc6/0xf8
[ 1.123782] [<0000000002176cb4>] print_address_description.constprop.0+0x64/0x2f0
[ 1.123793] [<000000000086fd3e>] kasan_report+0x15e/0x1c8
[ 1.123802] [<0000000000870f5c>] kasan_check_range+0x174/0x1c0
[ 1.123808] [<0000000000871988>] memcpy+0x58/0x88
[ 1.123813] [<000000000342cea8>] ftrace_plt_init+0xb8/0xe0
[ 1.123819] [<0000000000101522>] do_one_initcall+0xc2/0x468
[ 1.123825] [<000000000341ffc6>] do_initcalls+0x1be/0x1e8
[ 1.123830] [<0000000003420504>] kernel_init_freeable+0x494/0x4e8
[ 1.123834] [<0000000002196556>] kernel_init+0x2e/0x180
[ 1.123838] [<000000000010625a>] __ret_from_fork+0x8a/0xe8
[ 1.123843] [<00000000021b557a>] ret_from_fork+0xa/0x40
[ 1.123852]
[ 1.123854]
[ 1.123856] Memory state around the buggy address:
[ 1.123861] 001bffff7fffff00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[ 1.123865] 001bffff7fffff80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[ 1.123868] >001bffff80000000: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8
[ 1.123872] ^
[ 1.123874] 001bffff80000080: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8
[ 1.123878] 001bffff80000100: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8

$ cat /sys/kernel/debug/kernel_page_tables
---[ Modules Area Start ]---
0x001bffff80000000-0x001bffff80001000 4K PTE RO X
0x001bffff80001000-0x001bffff80002000 4K PTE I
0x001bffff80002000-0x001bffff80003000 4K PTE RO X
0x001bffff80003000-0x001bffff80004000 4K PTE I

[ 1.409146] BUG: KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds in bpf_jit_binary_alloc+0x138/0x170
[ 1.409154] Write of size 4 at addr 001bffff80002000 by task systemd/1
[ 1.409158]
[ 1.409160] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Tainted: G B W 5.17.0-rc7-118520-ga20d77ce812a #141
[ 1.409166] Hardware name: IBM 8561 T01 701 (KVM/Linux)
[ 1.409169] Call Trace:
[ 1.409171] [<000000000218e5fe>] dump_stack_lvl+0xc6/0xf8
[ 1.409176] [<0000000002176cb4>] print_address_description.constprop.0+0x64/0x2f0
[ 1.409183] [<000000000086fd3e>] kasan_report+0x15e/0x1c8
[ 1.409188] [<0000000000588860>] bpf_jit_binary_alloc+0x138/0x170
[ 1.409192] [<000000000019fa84>] bpf_int_jit_compile+0x814/0xca8
[ 1.409197] [<000000000058b60e>] bpf_prog_select_runtime+0x286/0x3e8
[ 1.409202] [<000000000059ac2e>] bpf_prog_load+0xe66/0x1a10
[ 1.409206] [<000000000059ebd4>] __sys_bpf+0x8bc/0x1088
[ 1.409211] [<000000000059f9e8>] __s390x_sys_bpf+0x98/0xc8
[ 1.409216] [<000000000010ce74>] do_syscall+0x22c/0x328
[ 1.409221] [<000000000219599c>] __do_syscall+0x94/0xf0
[ 1.409226] [<00000000021b5542>] system_call+0x82/0xb0
[ 1.409232]
[ 1.409234]
[ 1.409235] Memory state around the buggy address:
[ 1.409238] 001bffff80001f00: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8
[ 1.409242] 001bffff80001f80: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8
[ 1.409246] >001bffff80002000: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8
[ 1.409249] ^
[ 1.409251] 001bffff80002080: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8
[ 1.409255] 001bffff80002100: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8

$ git bisect log
git bisect start
# good: [ea4424be16887a37735d6550cfd0611528dbe5d9] Merge tag 'mtd/fixes-for-5.17-rc8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux
git bisect good ea4424be16887a37735d6550cfd0611528dbe5d9
# bad: [cb153b68ff91cbc434f3de70ac549e110543e1bb] Add linux-next specific files for 20220308
git bisect bad cb153b68ff91cbc434f3de70ac549e110543e1bb
# good: [1ce7aac49a7b73abbd691c6e6a1577a449d90bad] Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/cryptodev-2.6.git
git bisect good 1ce7aac49a7b73abbd691c6e6a1577a449d90bad
# good: [08688e100b1b07ce178c1d3c6b9983e00cd85413] Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace.git
git bisect good 08688e100b1b07ce178c1d3c6b9983e00cd85413
# good: [82a204646439657e5c2f94da5cad7ba96de10414] Merge branch 'togreg' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jic23/iio.git
git bisect good 82a204646439657e5c2f94da5cad7ba96de10414
# good: [ac82bf337c937458bf4f75985857bf3a68cd7c16] Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cxl/cxl.git
git bisect good ac82bf337c937458bf4f75985857bf3a68cd7c16
# good: [a36f330518af9bd205451bedb4eb22a5245cf010] ipc/mqueue: use get_tree_nodev() in mqueue_get_tree()
git bisect good a36f330518af9bd205451bedb4eb22a5245cf010
# good: [339c1d0fb400ab3acd2da2d9990242f654689f6e] Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/pagecache.git
git bisect good 339c1d0fb400ab3acd2da2d9990242f654689f6e
# good: [b8a58fecbd4982211f528d405a9ded00ddc7d646] kasan: only apply __GFP_ZEROTAGS when memory is zeroed
git bisect good b8a58fecbd4982211f528d405a9ded00ddc7d646
# bad: [141e05389762bee5fb0eb54af9c4d5266ce11d26] kasan: drop addr check from describe_object_addr
git bisect bad 141e05389762bee5fb0eb54af9c4d5266ce11d26
# good: [97fedbc9a6bccd508c392b0e177380313dd9fcd2] kasan, page_alloc: allow skipping unpoisoning for HW_TAGS
git bisect good 97fedbc9a6bccd508c392b0e177380313dd9fcd2
# bad: [606c2ee3fabbf66594f39998be9b5a21c2bf5dff] arm64: select KASAN_VMALLOC for SW/HW_TAGS modes
git bisect bad 606c2ee3fabbf66594f39998be9b5a21c2bf5dff
# bad: [bd2c296805cff9572080bf56807c16d1dd382260] kasan, scs: support tagged vmalloc mappings
git bisect bad bd2c296805cff9572080bf56807c16d1dd382260
# good: [7b80fa947b3a3ee746115395d1c5f7157119b7d2] kasan, vmalloc: add vmalloc tagging for HW_TAGS
git bisect good 7b80fa947b3a3ee746115395d1c5f7157119b7d2
# bad: [f51c09448ea124622f8ebcfb41d06c809ee01bca] fix for "kasan, vmalloc: only tag normal vmalloc allocations"
git bisect bad f51c09448ea124622f8ebcfb41d06c809ee01bca
# bad: [a20d77ce812a3e11b3cf2cb4f411904bb5c6edaa] kasan, vmalloc: only tag normal vmalloc allocations
git bisect bad a20d77ce812a3e11b3cf2cb4f411904bb5c6edaa
# first bad commit: [a20d77ce812a3e11b3cf2cb4f411904bb5c6edaa] kasan, vmalloc: only tag normal vmalloc allocations