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authorMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>2016-03-09 14:08:15 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-03-09 15:43:42 -0800
commite3ae116339f9a0c77523abc95e338fa405946e07 (patch)
treebed5cc5707d632e6221341b8fee1913749e80684 /mm/kasan
parent5f29a77cd95771edebbf41e5800fdd557c69302a (diff)
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kasan: add functions to clear stack poison
Functions which the compiler has instrumented for ASAN place poison on the stack shadow upon entry and remove this poison prior to returning. In some cases (e.g. hotplug and idle), CPUs may exit the kernel a number of levels deep in C code. If there are any instrumented functions on this critical path, these will leave portions of the idle thread stack shadow poisoned. If a CPU returns to the kernel via a different path (e.g. a cold entry), then depending on stack frame layout subsequent calls to instrumented functions may use regions of the stack with stale poison, resulting in (spurious) KASAN splats to the console. Contemporary GCCs always add stack shadow poisoning when ASAN is enabled, even when asked to not instrument a function [1], so we can't simply annotate functions on the critical path to avoid poisoning. Instead, this series explicitly removes any stale poison before it can be hit. In the common hotplug case we clear the entire stack shadow in common code, before a CPU is brought online. On architectures which perform a cold return as part of cpu idle may retain an architecture-specific amount of stack contents. To retain the poison for this retained context, the arch code must call the core KASAN code, passing a "watermark" stack pointer value beyond which shadow will be cleared. Architectures which don't perform a cold return as part of idle do not need any additional code. This patch (of 3): Functions which the compiler has instrumented for KASAN place poison on the stack shadow upon entry and remove this poision prior to returning. In some cases (e.g. hotplug and idle), CPUs may exit the kernel a number of levels deep in C code. If there are any instrumented functions on this critical path, these will leave portions of the stack shadow poisoned. If a CPU returns to the kernel via a different path (e.g. a cold entry), then depending on stack frame layout subsequent calls to instrumented functions may use regions of the stack with stale poison, resulting in (spurious) KASAN splats to the console. To avoid this, we must clear stale poison from the stack prior to instrumented functions being called. This patch adds functions to the KASAN core for removing poison from (portions of) a task's stack. These will be used by subsequent patches to avoid problems with hotplug and idle. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/kasan')
-rw-r--r--mm/kasan/kasan.c20
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/kasan/kasan.c b/mm/kasan/kasan.c
index bc0a8d8b8f42..1ad20ade8c91 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/kasan.c
+++ b/mm/kasan/kasan.c
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/kmemleak.h>
+#include <linux/linkage.h>
#include <linux/memblock.h>
#include <linux/memory.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>
@@ -60,6 +61,25 @@ void kasan_unpoison_shadow(const void *address, size_t size)
}
}
+static void __kasan_unpoison_stack(struct task_struct *task, void *sp)
+{
+ void *base = task_stack_page(task);
+ size_t size = sp - base;
+
+ kasan_unpoison_shadow(base, size);
+}
+
+/* Unpoison the entire stack for a task. */
+void kasan_unpoison_task_stack(struct task_struct *task)
+{
+ __kasan_unpoison_stack(task, task_stack_page(task) + THREAD_SIZE);
+}
+
+/* Unpoison the stack for the current task beyond a watermark sp value. */
+asmlinkage void kasan_unpoison_remaining_stack(void *sp)
+{
+ __kasan_unpoison_stack(current, sp);
+}
/*
* All functions below always inlined so compiler could