Re: [PATCH] lkdtm: Add kfence read after free crash type

[Stephen Boyd]

Adding kfence folks (will add on v2).

Quoting Kees Cook (2023-11-29 12:22:27)
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 03:49:45PM -0800, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > Add the ability to allocate memory from kfence and trigger a read after
> > free on that memory to validate that kfence is working properly. This is
> > used by ChromeOS integration tests to validate that kfence errors can be
> > collected on user devices and parsed properly.
>
> This looks really good; thanks for adding this!
>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/misc/lkdtm/heap.c | 64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 64 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/heap.c b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/heap.c
> > index 0ce4cbf6abda..608872bcc7e0 100644
> > --- a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/heap.c
> > +++ b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/heap.c
> > @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
> >   * page allocation and slab allocations.
> >   */
> >  #include "lkdtm.h"
> > +#include <linux/kfence.h>
> >  #include <linux/slab.h>
> >  #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
> >  #include <linux/sched.h>
> > @@ -132,6 +133,66 @@ static void lkdtm_READ_AFTER_FREE(void)
> >       kfree(val);
> >  }
> >
> > +#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KFENCE)
>
> I really try hard to avoid having tests disappear depending on configs,
> and instead report the expected failure case (as you have). Can this be
> built without the IS_ENABLED() tests?
>

We need IS_ENABLED() for the kfence_sample_interval variable. I suppose
if the config isn't set that variable can be assumed as zero and then
the timeout would hit immediately. We can either define the name
'kfence_sample_interval' as 0 in the header, or put an ifdef in the
function.

---8<---
diff --git a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/heap.c b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/heap.c
index 4f467d3972a6..574d0aa726dc 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/heap.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/heap.c
@@ -138,6 +138,14 @@ static void lkdtm_KFENCE_READ_AFTER_FREE(void)
 	int *base, val, saw;
 	unsigned long timeout, resched_after;
 	size_t len = 1024;
+	unsigned long interval;
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_KFENCE
+	interval = kfence_sample_interval;
+#else
+	interval = 0;
+#endif
+
 	/*
 	 * The slub allocator will use the either the first word or
 	 * the middle of the allocation to store the free pointer,
@@ -150,13 +158,13 @@ static void lkdtm_KFENCE_READ_AFTER_FREE(void)
 	 * 100x the sample interval should be more than enough to ensure we get
 	 * a KFENCE allocation eventually.
 	 */
-	timeout = jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(100 * kfence_sample_interval);
+	timeout = jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(100 * interval);
 	/*
 	 * Especially for non-preemption kernels, ensure the allocation-gate
 	 * timer can catch up: after @resched_after, every failed allocation
 	 * attempt yields, to ensure the allocation-gate timer is scheduled.
 	 */
-	resched_after = jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(kfence_sample_interval);
+	resched_after = jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(interval);
 	do {
 		base = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!base) {

---8<----
diff --git a/include/linux/kfence.h b/include/linux/kfence.h
index 401af4757514..88100cc9caba 100644
--- a/include/linux/kfence.h
+++ b/include/linux/kfence.h
@@ -223,6 +223,8 @@ bool __kfence_obj_info(struct kmem_obj_info *kpp,
void *object, struct slab *sla

 #else /* CONFIG_KFENCE */

+#define kfence_sample_interval	(0)
+
 static inline bool is_kfence_address(const void *addr) { return false; }
 static inline void kfence_alloc_pool_and_metadata(void) { }
 static inline void kfence_init(void) { }