Thread (6 messages) 6 messages, 3 authors, 2025-01-30

Re: [PATCH v2] kasan, mempool: don't store free stacktrace in io_alloc_cache objects.

From: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Date: 2025-01-28 01:03:36
Also in: io-uring, linux-mm, lkml, stable

On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM Andrey Ryabinin [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Running the testcase liburing/accept-reust.t with CONFIG_KASAN=y and
CONFIG_KASAN_EXTRA_INFO=y leads to the following crash:

    Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00000c6455008008
    ...
    pc : __kasan_mempool_unpoison_object+0x38/0x170
    lr : io_netmsg_cache_free+0x8c/0x180
    ...
    Call trace:
     __kasan_mempool_unpoison_object+0x38/0x170 (P)
     io_netmsg_cache_free+0x8c/0x180
     io_ring_exit_work+0xd4c/0x13a0
     process_one_work+0x52c/0x1000
     worker_thread+0x830/0xdc0
     kthread+0x2bc/0x348
     ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

Since the commit b556a462eb8d ("kasan: save free stack traces for slab mempools")
kasan_mempool_poison_object() stores some info inside an object.
It was expected that the object must be reinitialized after
kasan_mempool_unpoison_object() call, and this is what happens in the
most of use cases.

However io_uring code expects that io_alloc_cache_put/get doesn't modify
the object, so kasan_mempool_poison_object() end up corrupting it leading
to crash later.

Add @notrack argument to kasan_mempool_poison_object() call to tell
KASAN to avoid storing info in objects for io_uring use case.

Reported-by: lizetao <redacted>
Closes: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ec2a6ca08c614c10853fbb1270296ac4@huawei.com
Fixes: b556a462eb8d ("kasan: save free stack traces for slab mempools")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
---
 - Changes since v1:
    s/true/false @notrack in __kasan_slab_free() per @andreyknvl

 include/linux/kasan.h  | 13 +++++++------
 io_uring/alloc_cache.h |  2 +-
 io_uring/net.c         |  2 +-
 io_uring/rw.c          |  2 +-
 mm/kasan/common.c      | 11 ++++++-----
 mm/mempool.c           |  2 +-
 net/core/skbuff.c      |  2 +-
 7 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/kasan.h b/include/linux/kasan.h
index 890011071f2b..4d0bf4af399d 100644
--- a/include/linux/kasan.h
+++ b/include/linux/kasan.h
@@ -328,18 +328,19 @@ static __always_inline void kasan_mempool_unpoison_pages(struct page *page,
                __kasan_mempool_unpoison_pages(page, order, _RET_IP_);
 }

-bool __kasan_mempool_poison_object(void *ptr, unsigned long ip);
+bool __kasan_mempool_poison_object(void *ptr, bool notrack, unsigned long ip);
 /**
  * kasan_mempool_poison_object - Check and poison a mempool slab allocation.
  * @ptr: Pointer to the slab allocation.
+ * @notrack: Don't record stack trace of this call in the object.
  *
  * This function is intended for kernel subsystems that cache slab allocations
  * to reuse them instead of freeing them back to the slab allocator (e.g.
  * mempool).
  *
  * This function poisons a slab allocation and saves a free stack trace for it
- * without initializing the allocation's memory and without putting it into the
- * quarantine (for the Generic mode).
+ * (if @notrack == false) without initializing the allocation's memory and
+ * without putting it into the quarantine (for the Generic mode).
  *
  * This function also performs checks to detect double-free and invalid-free
  * bugs and reports them. The caller can use the return value of this function
@@ -354,10 +355,10 @@ bool __kasan_mempool_poison_object(void *ptr, unsigned long ip);
  *
  * Return: true if the allocation can be safely reused; false otherwise.
  */
-static __always_inline bool kasan_mempool_poison_object(void *ptr)
+static __always_inline bool kasan_mempool_poison_object(void *ptr, bool notrack)
 {
        if (kasan_enabled())
-               return __kasan_mempool_poison_object(ptr, _RET_IP_);
+               return __kasan_mempool_poison_object(ptr, notrack, _RET_IP_);
        return true;
 }
@@ -456,7 +457,7 @@ static inline bool kasan_mempool_poison_pages(struct page *page, unsigned int or
        return true;
 }
 static inline void kasan_mempool_unpoison_pages(struct page *page, unsigned int order) {}
-static inline bool kasan_mempool_poison_object(void *ptr)
+static inline bool kasan_mempool_poison_object(void *ptr, bool notrack)
 {
        return true;
 }
diff --git a/io_uring/alloc_cache.h b/io_uring/alloc_cache.h
index a3a8cfec32ce..dd508dddea33 100644
--- a/io_uring/alloc_cache.h
+++ b/io_uring/alloc_cache.h
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ static inline bool io_alloc_cache_put(struct io_alloc_cache *cache,
                                      void *entry)
 {
        if (cache->nr_cached < cache->max_cached) {
-               if (!kasan_mempool_poison_object(entry))
+               if (!kasan_mempool_poison_object(entry, true))
                        return false;
                cache->entries[cache->nr_cached++] = entry;
                return true;
diff --git a/io_uring/net.c b/io_uring/net.c
index 85f55fbc25c9..a954e37c7fd3 100644
--- a/io_uring/net.c
+++ b/io_uring/net.c
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ static void io_netmsg_recycle(struct io_kiocb *req, unsigned int issue_flags)
        iov = hdr->free_iov;
        if (io_alloc_cache_put(&req->ctx->netmsg_cache, hdr)) {
                if (iov)
-                       kasan_mempool_poison_object(iov);
+                       kasan_mempool_poison_object(iov, true);
                req->async_data = NULL;
                req->flags &= ~REQ_F_ASYNC_DATA;
        }
diff --git a/io_uring/rw.c b/io_uring/rw.c
index a9a2733be842..cba475003ba7 100644
--- a/io_uring/rw.c
+++ b/io_uring/rw.c
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ static void io_rw_recycle(struct io_kiocb *req, unsigned int issue_flags)
        iov = rw->free_iovec;
        if (io_alloc_cache_put(&req->ctx->rw_cache, rw)) {
                if (iov)
-                       kasan_mempool_poison_object(iov);
+                       kasan_mempool_poison_object(iov, true);
                req->async_data = NULL;
                req->flags &= ~REQ_F_ASYNC_DATA;
        }
diff --git a/mm/kasan/common.c b/mm/kasan/common.c
index ed4873e18c75..f08752dcd50b 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/common.c
+++ b/mm/kasan/common.c
@@ -230,7 +230,8 @@ static bool check_slab_allocation(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object,
 }

 static inline void poison_slab_object(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object,
-                                     bool init, bool still_accessible)
+                                     bool init, bool still_accessible,
+                                     bool notrack)
 {
        void *tagged_object = object;
@@ -243,7 +244,7 @@ static inline void poison_slab_object(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object,
        kasan_poison(object, round_up(cache->object_size, KASAN_GRANULE_SIZE),
                        KASAN_SLAB_FREE, init);

-       if (kasan_stack_collection_enabled())
+       if (kasan_stack_collection_enabled() && !notrack)
                kasan_save_free_info(cache, tagged_object);
 }
@@ -261,7 +262,7 @@ bool __kasan_slab_free(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object, bool init,
        if (!kasan_arch_is_ready() || is_kfence_address(object))
                return false;

-       poison_slab_object(cache, object, init, still_accessible);
+       poison_slab_object(cache, object, init, still_accessible, false);

        /*
         * If the object is put into quarantine, do not let slab put the object
@@ -495,7 +496,7 @@ void __kasan_mempool_unpoison_pages(struct page *page, unsigned int order,
        __kasan_unpoison_pages(page, order, false);
 }

-bool __kasan_mempool_poison_object(void *ptr, unsigned long ip)
+bool __kasan_mempool_poison_object(void *ptr, bool notrack, unsigned long ip)
 {
        struct folio *folio = virt_to_folio(ptr);
        struct slab *slab;
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@ bool __kasan_mempool_poison_object(void *ptr, unsigned long ip)
        if (check_slab_allocation(slab->slab_cache, ptr, ip))
                return false;

-       poison_slab_object(slab->slab_cache, ptr, false, false);
+       poison_slab_object(slab->slab_cache, ptr, false, false, notrack);
        return true;
 }
diff --git a/mm/mempool.c b/mm/mempool.c
index 3223337135d0..283df5d2b995 100644
--- a/mm/mempool.c
+++ b/mm/mempool.c
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ static inline void poison_element(mempool_t *pool, void *element)
 static __always_inline bool kasan_poison_element(mempool_t *pool, void *element)
 {
        if (pool->alloc == mempool_alloc_slab || pool->alloc == mempool_kmalloc)
-               return kasan_mempool_poison_object(element);
+               return kasan_mempool_poison_object(element, false);
        else if (pool->alloc == mempool_alloc_pages)
                return kasan_mempool_poison_pages(element,
                                                (unsigned long)pool->pool_data);
diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index a441613a1e6c..c9f58a698bb7 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -1457,7 +1457,7 @@ static void napi_skb_cache_put(struct sk_buff *skb)
        struct napi_alloc_cache *nc = this_cpu_ptr(&napi_alloc_cache);
        u32 i;

-       if (!kasan_mempool_poison_object(skb))
+       if (!kasan_mempool_poison_object(skb, false))
                return;

        local_lock_nested_bh(&napi_alloc_cache.bh_lock);
--
2.45.3
Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>

Thank you!
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