On 1/15/19 2:34 AM, Qian Cai wrote:
> KASAN does not play well with the page poisoning
> (CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING). It triggers false positives in the allocation
> path,
>
> BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in memchr_inv+0x2ea/0x330
> Read of size 8 at addr ffff88881f800000 by task swapper/0
> CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.0.0-rc1+ #54
> Call Trace:
> dump_stack+0xe0/0x19a
> print_address_description.cold.2+0x9/0x28b
> kasan_report.cold.3+0x7a/0xb5
> __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x19/0x20
> memchr_inv+0x2ea/0x330
> kernel_poison_pages+0x103/0x3d5
> get_page_from_freelist+0x15e7/0x4d90
>
> because KASAN has not yet unpoisoned the shadow page for allocation
> before it checks memchr_inv() but only found a stale poison pattern.
>
> Also, false positives in free path,
>
> BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in kernel_poison_pages+0x29e/0x3d5
> Write of size 4096 at addr ffff8888112cc000 by task swapper/0/1
> CPU: 5 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.0.0-rc1+ #55
> Call Trace:
> dump_stack+0xe0/0x19a
> print_address_description.cold.2+0x9/0x28b
> kasan_report.cold.3+0x7a/0xb5
> check_memory_region+0x22d/0x250
> memset+0x28/0x40
> kernel_poison_pages+0x29e/0x3d5
> __free_pages_ok+0x75f/0x13e0
>
> due to KASAN adds poisoned redzones around slab objects, but the page
> poisoning needs to poison the whole page.
>
> Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <c...@lca.pw>
> ---
>
Acked-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabi...@virtuozzo.com>
