[PATCH 3/4] arm64/kasan: don't allocate extra shadow memory

On 06/01/2017 07:52 PM, Mark Rutland wrote:

On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 06:45:32PM +0200, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:

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On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 6:34 PM, Mark Rutland [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 07:23:37PM +0300, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:

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We used to read several bytes of the shadow memory in advance.
Therefore additional shadow memory mapped to prevent crash if
speculative load would happen near the end of the mapped shadow memory.

Now we don't have such speculative loads, so we no longer need to map
additional shadow memory.

I see that patch 1 fixed up the Linux helpers for outline
instrumentation.

Just to check, is it also true that the inline instrumentation never
performs unaligned accesses to the shadow memory?

Correct, inline instrumentation assumes that all accesses are properly aligned as it
required by C standard. I knew that the kernel violates this rule in many places,
therefore I decided to add checks for unaligned accesses in outline case.

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Inline instrumentation generally accesses only a single byte.

Sorry to be a little pedantic, but does that mean we'll never access the
additional shadow, or does that mean it's very unlikely that we will?

I'm guessing/hoping it's the former!

Outline will never access additional shadow byte: https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki/AddressSanitizerAlgorithm#unaligned-accesses

Thanks,
Mark.