[merged mm-hotfixes-stable] kasan-guard-release_free_meta-shadow-access-with-kasan_arch_is_ready.patch removed from -mm tree

[merged mm-hotfixes-stable] kasan-guard-release_free_meta-shadow-access-with-kasan_arch_is_ready.patch removed from -mm tree

[Andrew Morton]

The quilt patch titled
     Subject: kasan: guard release_free_meta() shadow access with kasan_arch_is_ready()
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     kasan-guard-release_free_meta-shadow-access-with-kasan_arch_is_ready.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-hotfixes-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Benjamin Gray <bgray@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: kasan: guard release_free_meta() shadow access with kasan_arch_is_ready()
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2024 14:39:58 +1100

release_free_meta() accesses the shadow directly through the path

  kasan_slab_free
    __kasan_slab_free
      kasan_release_object_meta
        release_free_meta
          kasan_mem_to_shadow

There are no kasan_arch_is_ready() guards here, allowing an oops when the
shadow is not initialized.  The oops can be seen on a Power8 KVM guest.

This patch adds the guard to release_free_meta(), as it's the first level
that specifically requires the shadow.

It is safe to put the guard at the start of this function, before the
stack put: only kasan_save_free_info() can initialize the saved stack,
which itself is guarded with kasan_arch_is_ready() by its caller
poison_slab_object().  If the arch becomes ready before
release_free_meta() then we will not observe KASAN_SLAB_FREE_META in the
object's shadow, so we will not put an uninitialized stack either.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240213033958.139383-1-bgray@linux.ibm.com
Fixes: 63b85ac56a64 ("kasan: stop leaking stack trace handles")
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gray <bgray@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/kasan/generic.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/mm/kasan/generic.c~kasan-guard-release_free_meta-shadow-access-with-kasan_arch_is_ready
+++ a/mm/kasan/generic.c
@@ -522,6 +522,9 @@ static void release_alloc_meta(struct ka
 
 static void release_free_meta(const void *object, struct kasan_free_meta *meta)
 {
+	if (!kasan_arch_is_ready())
+		return;
+
 	/* Check if free meta is valid. */
 	if (*(u8 *)kasan_mem_to_shadow(object) != KASAN_SLAB_FREE_META)
 		return;
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from bgray@linux.ibm.com are