Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 2 authors, 2020-08-25

Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] kasan: add workqueue and timer stack for generic KASAN

From: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Date: 2020-08-24 11:50:27
Also in: linux-mediatek, linux-mm, lkml

On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 at 10:07, Walter Wu [off-list ref] wrote:
Syzbot reports many UAF issues for workqueue or timer, see [1] and [2].
In some of these access/allocation happened in process_one_work(),
we see the free stack is useless in KASAN report, it doesn't help
programmers to solve UAF on workqueue. The same may stand for times.

This patchset improves KASAN reports by making them to have workqueue
queueing stack and timer queueing stack information. It is useful for
programmers to solve use-after-free or double-free memory issue.

Generic KASAN will record the last two workqueue and timer stacks,
print them in KASAN report. It is only suitable for generic KASAN.

[1]https://groups.google.com/g/syzkaller-bugs/search?q=%22use-after-free%22+process_one_work
[2]https://groups.google.com/g/syzkaller-bugs/search?q=%22use-after-free%22%20expire_timers
[3]https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198437

Walter Wu (6):
timer: kasan: record timer stack
workqueue: kasan: record workqueue stack
kasan: print timer and workqueue stack
lib/test_kasan.c: add timer test case
lib/test_kasan.c: add workqueue test case
kasan: update documentation for generic kasan

---

Changes since v1:
- Thanks for Marco and Thomas suggestion.
- Remove unnecessary code and fix commit log
- reuse kasan_record_aux_stack() and aux_stack
  to record timer and workqueue stack.
- change the aux stack title for common name.
Much cleaner.

In general,

Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>

but I left some more comments. I'm a bit worried about the tests,
because of KASAN-test KUnit rework, but probably not much we can do
until these are added to -mm tree.

Thanks,
-- Marco

_______________________________________________
linux-arm-kernel mailing list
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel
Keyboard shortcuts
hback out one level
jnext message in thread
kprevious message in thread
ldrill in
Escclose help / fold thread tree
?toggle this help