[PATCH locking 06/11] locking/lockdep: Add kasan_check_byte() check in lock_acquire()

From: Boqun Feng
Date: Fri Mar 07 2025 - 18:30:20 EST


From: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx>

KASAN instrumentation of lockdep has been disabled as we don't need
KASAN to check the validity of lockdep internal data structures and
incur unnecessary performance overhead. However, the lockdep_map pointer
passed in externally may not be valid (e.g. use-after-free) and we run
the risk of using garbage data resulting in false lockdep reports.

Add kasan_check_byte() call in lock_acquire() for non kernel core data
object to catch invalid lockdep_map and print out a KASAN report before
any lockdep splat, if any.

Suggested-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250214195242.2480920-1-longman@xxxxxxxxxx
---
kernel/locking/lockdep.c | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
index 8436f017c74d..b15757e63626 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@
#include <linux/lockdep.h>
#include <linux/context_tracking.h>
#include <linux/console.h>
+#include <linux/kasan.h>

#include <asm/sections.h>

@@ -5830,6 +5831,14 @@ void lock_acquire(struct lockdep_map *lock, unsigned int subclass,
if (!debug_locks)
return;

+ /*
+ * As KASAN instrumentation is disabled and lock_acquire() is usually
+ * the first lockdep call when a task tries to acquire a lock, add
+ * kasan_check_byte() here to check for use-after-free and other
+ * memory errors.
+ */
+ kasan_check_byte(lock);
+
if (unlikely(!lockdep_enabled())) {
/* XXX allow trylock from NMI ?!? */
if (lockdep_nmi() && !trylock) {
--
2.47.1