RE: [PATCH 3/3] asm-generic, x86: Add bitops instrumentation for KASAN

[David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>]

From: Dmitry Vyukov
> Sent: 29 May 2019 11:57
> On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 12:30 PM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 12:16:31PM +0200, Marco Elver wrote:
> > > On Wed, 29 May 2019 at 12:01, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 11:20:17AM +0200, Marco Elver wrote:
> > > > > For the default, we decided to err on the conservative side for now,
> > > > > since it seems that e.g. x86 operates only on the byte the bit is on.
> > > >
> > > > This is not correct, see for instance set_bit():
> > > >
> > > > static __always_inline void
> > > > set_bit(long nr, volatile unsigned long *addr)
> > > > {
> > > >         if (IS_IMMEDIATE(nr)) {
> > > >                 asm volatile(LOCK_PREFIX "orb %1,%0"
> > > >                         : CONST_MASK_ADDR(nr, addr)
> > > >                         : "iq" ((u8)CONST_MASK(nr))
> > > >                         : "memory");
> > > >         } else {
> > > >                 asm volatile(LOCK_PREFIX __ASM_SIZE(bts) " %1,%0"
> > > >                         : : RLONG_ADDR(addr), "Ir" (nr) : "memory");
> > > >         }
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > > That results in:
> > > >
> > > >         LOCK BTSQ nr, (addr)
> > > >
> > > > when @nr is not an immediate.
> > >
> > > Thanks for the clarification. Given that arm64 already instruments
> > > bitops access to whole words, and x86 may also do so for some bitops,
> > > it seems fine to instrument word-sized accesses by default. Is that
> > > reasonable?
> >
> > Eminently -- the API is defined such; for bonus points KASAN should also
> > do alignment checks on atomic ops. Future hardware will #AC on unaligned
> > [*] LOCK prefix instructions.
> >
> > (*) not entirely accurate, it will only trap when crossing a line.
> >     https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1556134382-58814-1-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
> 
> Interesting. Does an address passed to bitops also should be aligned,
> or alignment is supposed to be handled by bitops themselves?

The bitops are defined on 'long []' and it is expected to be aligned.
Any code that casts the argument is likely to be broken on big-endian.
I did a quick grep a few weeks ago and found some very dubious code.
Not all the casts seemed to be on code that was LE only (although
I didn't try to find out what the casts were from).

The alignment trap on x86 could be avoided by only ever requesting 32bit
cycles - and assuming the buffer is always 32bit aligned (eg int []).
But on BE passing an 'int []' is just so wrong ....

	David

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