[PATCH 1/2] kmsan: do not wipe out origin when doing partial unpoisoning

From: Alexander Potapenko
Date: Tue May 28 2024 - 06:48:23 EST


As noticed by Brian, KMSAN should not be zeroing the origin when
unpoisoning parts of a four-byte uninitialized value, e.g.:

char a[4];
kmsan_unpoison_memory(a, 1);

This led to false negatives, as certain poisoned values could receive zero
origins, preventing those values from being reported.

To fix the problem, check that kmsan_internal_set_shadow_origin() writes
zero origins only to slots which have zero shadow.

Reported-by: Brian Johannesmeyer <bjohannesmeyer@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240524232804.1984355-1-bjohannesmeyer@xxxxxxxxx/T/
Fixes: f80be4571b19 ("kmsan: add KMSAN runtime core")
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/kmsan/core.c | 15 +++++++++++----
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/kmsan/core.c b/mm/kmsan/core.c
index cf2d70e9c9a5f..95f859e38c533 100644
--- a/mm/kmsan/core.c
+++ b/mm/kmsan/core.c
@@ -196,8 +196,7 @@ void kmsan_internal_set_shadow_origin(void *addr, size_t size, int b,
u32 origin, bool checked)
{
u64 address = (u64)addr;
- void *shadow_start;
- u32 *origin_start;
+ u32 *shadow_start, *origin_start;
size_t pad = 0;

KMSAN_WARN_ON(!kmsan_metadata_is_contiguous(addr, size));
@@ -225,8 +224,16 @@ void kmsan_internal_set_shadow_origin(void *addr, size_t size, int b,
origin_start =
(u32 *)kmsan_get_metadata((void *)address, KMSAN_META_ORIGIN);

- for (int i = 0; i < size / KMSAN_ORIGIN_SIZE; i++)
- origin_start[i] = origin;
+ /*
+ * If the new origin is non-zero, assume that the shadow byte is also non-zero,
+ * and unconditionally overwrite the old origin slot.
+ * If the new origin is zero, overwrite the old origin slot iff the
+ * corresponding shadow slot is zero.
+ */
+ for (int i = 0; i < size / KMSAN_ORIGIN_SIZE; i++) {
+ if (origin || !shadow_start[i])
+ origin_start[i] = origin;
+ }
}

struct page *kmsan_vmalloc_to_page_or_null(void *vaddr)
--
2.45.1.288.g0e0cd299f1-goog