Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2021-09-30

Re: [PATCH] kfence: shorten critical sections of alloc/free

From: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Date: 2021-09-30 15:40:25
Also in: lkml

On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 5:37 PM Marco Elver [off-list ref] wrote:
Initializing memory and setting/checking the canary bytes is relatively
expensive, and doing so in the meta->lock critical sections extends the
duration with preemption and interrupts disabled unnecessarily.

Any reads to meta->addr and meta->size in kfence_guarded_alloc() and
kfence_guarded_free() don't require locking meta->lock as long as the
object is removed from the freelist: only kfence_guarded_alloc() sets
meta->addr and meta->size after removing it from the freelist,  which
requires a preceding kfence_guarded_free() returning it to the list or
the initial state.

Therefore move reads to meta->addr and meta->size, including expensive
memory initialization using them, out of meta->lock critical sections.

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Acked-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 mm/kfence/core.c | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/kfence/core.c b/mm/kfence/core.c
index b61ef93d9f98..802905b1c89b 100644
--- a/mm/kfence/core.c
+++ b/mm/kfence/core.c
@@ -309,12 +309,19 @@ static inline bool set_canary_byte(u8 *addr)
 /* Check canary byte at @addr. */
 static inline bool check_canary_byte(u8 *addr)
 {
+       struct kfence_metadata *meta;
+       unsigned long flags;
+
        if (likely(*addr == KFENCE_CANARY_PATTERN(addr)))
                return true;

        atomic_long_inc(&counters[KFENCE_COUNTER_BUGS]);
-       kfence_report_error((unsigned long)addr, false, NULL, addr_to_metadata((unsigned long)addr),
-                           KFENCE_ERROR_CORRUPTION);
+
+       meta = addr_to_metadata((unsigned long)addr);
+       raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&meta->lock, flags);
+       kfence_report_error((unsigned long)addr, false, NULL, meta, KFENCE_ERROR_CORRUPTION);
+       raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&meta->lock, flags);
+
        return false;
 }
@@ -324,8 +331,6 @@ static __always_inline void for_each_canary(const struct kfence_metadata *meta,
        const unsigned long pageaddr = ALIGN_DOWN(meta->addr, PAGE_SIZE);
        unsigned long addr;

-       lockdep_assert_held(&meta->lock);
-
        /*
         * We'll iterate over each canary byte per-side until fn() returns
         * false. However, we'll still iterate over the canary bytes to the
@@ -414,8 +419,9 @@ static void *kfence_guarded_alloc(struct kmem_cache *cache, size_t size, gfp_t g
        WRITE_ONCE(meta->cache, cache);
        meta->size = size;
        meta->alloc_stack_hash = alloc_stack_hash;
+       raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&meta->lock, flags);

-       for_each_canary(meta, set_canary_byte);
+       alloc_covered_add(alloc_stack_hash, 1);

        /* Set required struct page fields. */
        page = virt_to_page(meta->addr);
@@ -425,11 +431,8 @@ static void *kfence_guarded_alloc(struct kmem_cache *cache, size_t size, gfp_t g
        if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SLAB))
                page->s_mem = addr;

-       raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&meta->lock, flags);
-
-       alloc_covered_add(alloc_stack_hash, 1);
-
        /* Memory initialization. */
+       for_each_canary(meta, set_canary_byte);

        /*
         * We check slab_want_init_on_alloc() ourselves, rather than letting
@@ -454,6 +457,7 @@ static void kfence_guarded_free(void *addr, struct kfence_metadata *meta, bool z
 {
        struct kcsan_scoped_access assert_page_exclusive;
        unsigned long flags;
+       bool init;

        raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&meta->lock, flags);
@@ -481,6 +485,13 @@ static void kfence_guarded_free(void *addr, struct kfence_metadata *meta, bool z
                meta->unprotected_page = 0;
        }

+       /* Mark the object as freed. */
+       metadata_update_state(meta, KFENCE_OBJECT_FREED, NULL, 0);
+       init = slab_want_init_on_free(meta->cache);
+       raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&meta->lock, flags);
+
+       alloc_covered_add(meta->alloc_stack_hash, -1);
+
        /* Check canary bytes for memory corruption. */
        for_each_canary(meta, check_canary_byte);
@@ -489,16 +500,9 @@ static void kfence_guarded_free(void *addr, struct kfence_metadata *meta, bool z
         * data is still there, and after a use-after-free is detected, we
         * unprotect the page, so the data is still accessible.
         */
-       if (!zombie && unlikely(slab_want_init_on_free(meta->cache)))
+       if (!zombie && unlikely(init))
                memzero_explicit(addr, meta->size);

-       /* Mark the object as freed. */
-       metadata_update_state(meta, KFENCE_OBJECT_FREED, NULL, 0);
-
-       raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&meta->lock, flags);
-
-       alloc_covered_add(meta->alloc_stack_hash, -1);
-
        /* Protect to detect use-after-frees. */
        kfence_protect((unsigned long)addr);

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2.33.0.685.g46640cef36-goog

-- 
Alexander Potapenko
Software Engineer

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