Thread (18 messages) 18 messages, 2 authors, 2017-09-15

Re: [PATCH v8 10/11] arm64/kasan: explicitly zero kasan shadow memory

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From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Date: 2017-09-15 01:10:43
Also in: linux-arm-kernel, linux-mm, lkml, sparclinux
Subsystem: arm64 port (aarch64 architecture), kasan, the rest · Maintainers: Catalin Marinas, Will Deacon, Andrey Ryabinin, Linus Torvalds

On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 06:35:16PM -0400, Pavel Tatashin wrote:
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To optimize the performance of struct page initialization,
vmemmap_populate() will no longer zero memory.

We must explicitly zero the memory that is allocated by vmemmap_populate()
for kasan, as this memory does not go through struct page initialization
path.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Steven Sistare <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Bob Picco <redacted>
---
 arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c
index 81f03959a4ab..e78a9ecbb687 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c
@@ -135,6 +135,41 @@ static void __init clear_pgds(unsigned long start,
 		set_pgd(pgd_offset_k(start), __pgd(0));
 }
 
+/*
+ * Memory that was allocated by vmemmap_populate is not zeroed, so we must
+ * zero it here explicitly.
+ */
+static void
+zero_vmemmap_populated_memory(void)
+{
+	struct memblock_region *reg;
+	u64 start, end;
+
+	for_each_memblock(memory, reg) {
+		start = __phys_to_virt(reg->base);
+		end = __phys_to_virt(reg->base + reg->size);
+
+		if (start >= end)
+			break;
+
+		start = (u64)kasan_mem_to_shadow((void *)start);
+		end = (u64)kasan_mem_to_shadow((void *)end);
+
+		/* Round to the start end of the mapped pages */
+		start = round_down(start, SWAPPER_BLOCK_SIZE);
+		end = round_up(end, SWAPPER_BLOCK_SIZE);
+		memset((void *)start, 0, end - start);
+	}
+
+	start = (u64)kasan_mem_to_shadow(_text);
+	end = (u64)kasan_mem_to_shadow(_end);
+
+	/* Round to the start end of the mapped pages */
+	start = round_down(start, SWAPPER_BLOCK_SIZE);
+	end = round_up(end, SWAPPER_BLOCK_SIZE);
+	memset((void *)start, 0, end - start);
+}
I really don't see the need to duplicate the existing logic to iterate over
memblocks, calculate the addresses, etc.

Why can't we just have a zeroing wrapper? e.g. something like the below.

I really don't see why we couldn't have a generic function in core code to do
this, even if vmemmap_populate() doesn't.

Thanks,
Mark.

---->8----
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c
index 81f0395..698d065 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c
@@ -135,6 +135,17 @@ static void __init clear_pgds(unsigned long start,
                set_pgd(pgd_offset_k(start), __pgd(0));
 }
 
+void kasan_populate_shadow(unsigned long shadow_start, unsigned long shadow_end,
+                          nid_t nid)
+{
+       shadow_start = round_down(shadow_start, SWAPPER_BLOCK_SIZE);
+       shadow_end = round_up(shadow_end, SWAPPER_BLOCK_SIZE);
+
+       vmemmap_populate(shadow_start, shadow_end, nid);
+
+       memset((void *)shadow_start, 0, shadow_end - shadow_start);
+}
+
 void __init kasan_init(void)
 {
        u64 kimg_shadow_start, kimg_shadow_end;
@@ -161,8 +172,8 @@ void __init kasan_init(void)
 
        clear_pgds(KASAN_SHADOW_START, KASAN_SHADOW_END);
 
-       vmemmap_populate(kimg_shadow_start, kimg_shadow_end,
-                        pfn_to_nid(virt_to_pfn(lm_alias(_text))));
+       kasah_populate_shadow(kimg_shadow_start, kimg_shadow_end,
+                             pfn_to_nid(virt_to_pfn(lm_alias(_text))));
 
        /*
         * vmemmap_populate() has populated the shadow region that covers the
@@ -191,9 +202,9 @@ void __init kasan_init(void)
                if (start >= end)
                        break;
 
-               vmemmap_populate((unsigned long)kasan_mem_to_shadow(start),
-                               (unsigned long)kasan_mem_to_shadow(end),
-                               pfn_to_nid(virt_to_pfn(start)));
+               kasan_populate_shadow((unsigned long)kasan_mem_to_shadow(start),
+                                     (unsigned long)kasan_mem_to_shadow(end),
+                                     pfn_to_nid(virt_to_pfn(start)));
        }
 
        /*
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