Re: [PATCH v5 3/4] mm: kasan: Add free_meta size info in struct kasan_cache

[Feng Tang]

On Sun, Sep 11, 2022 at 07:51:54PM +0800, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 11, 2022 at 5:57 AM Feng Tang <feng.tang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Andrey,
> >
> > Thanks for reviewing this series!
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 11, 2022 at 07:14:55AM +0800, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> > > On Wed, Sep 7, 2022 at 9:11 AM Feng Tang <feng.tang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > When kasan is enabled for slab/slub, it may save kasan' free_meta
> > > > data in the former part of slab object data area in slab object
> > > > free path, which works fine.
> > > >
> > > > There is ongoing effort to extend slub's debug function which will
> > > > redzone the latter part of kmalloc object area, and when both of
> > > > the debug are enabled, there is possible conflict, especially when
> > > > the kmalloc object has small size, as caught by 0Day bot [1]
> > > >
> > > > For better information for slab/slub, add free_meta's data size
> > > > into 'struct kasan_cache', so that its users can take right action
> > > > to avoid data conflict.
> > > >
> > > > [1]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YuYm3dWwpZwH58Hu@xsang-OptiPlex-9020/
> > > > Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Acked-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > >  include/linux/kasan.h | 2 ++
> > > >  mm/kasan/common.c     | 2 ++
> > > >  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/include/linux/kasan.h b/include/linux/kasan.h
> > > > index b092277bf48d..293bdaa0ba09 100644
> > > > --- a/include/linux/kasan.h
> > > > +++ b/include/linux/kasan.h
> > > > @@ -100,6 +100,8 @@ static inline bool kasan_has_integrated_init(void)
> > > >  struct kasan_cache {
> > > >         int alloc_meta_offset;
> > > >         int free_meta_offset;
> > > > +       /* size of free_meta data saved in object's data area */
> > > > +       int free_meta_size_in_object;
> > >
> > > I thinks calling this field free_meta_size is clear enough. Thanks!
> >
> > Yes, the name does look long. The "in_object" was added to make it
> > also a flag for whether the free meta is saved inside object's data
> > area.
> >
> > For 'free_meta_size', the code logic in slub should be:
> >
> >   if (info->free_meta_offset == 0 &&
> >         info->free_meta_size >= ...)
> 
> I'd say you can keep the current logic and just rename the field to
> make it shorter. But up to you, I'm fine with either approach. Thanks!

OK, I don't have strong opinion either. As the comment for that
member clearly stats it's for inside-data size info, we could use
the shorter name.

Thanks,
Feng