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* [PATCH 0/3] KASAN: clean stale poison upon cold re-entry to kernel
@ 2016-03-02 14:26 Mark Rutland
  2016-03-02 14:26 ` [PATCH 1/3] kasan: add functions to clear stack poison Mark Rutland
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From: Mark Rutland @ 2016-03-02 14:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-arm-kernel

Functions which the compiler has instrumented for ASAN place poison on
the stack shadow upon entry and remove this poison prior to returning.

In some cases (e.g. hotplug and idle), CPUs may exit the kernel a number
of levels deep in C code. If there are any instrumented functions on
this critical path, these will leave portions of the idle thread stack
shadow poisoned.

If a CPU returns to the kernel via a different path (e.g. a cold entry),
then depending on stack frame layout subsequent calls to instrumented
functions may use regions of the stack with stale poison, resulting in
(spurious) KASAN splats to the console.

Contemporary GCCs always add stack shadow poisoning when ASAN is
enabled, even when asked to not instrument a function [1], so we can't
simply annotate functions on the critical path to avoid poisoning.

Instead, this series explicitly removes any stale poison before it can
be hit. In the common hotplug case we clear the entire stack shadow in
common code, before a CPU is brought online.

On architectures which perform a cold return as part of cpu idle may
retain an architecture-specific amount of stack contents. To retain the
poison for this retained context, the arch code must call the core KASAN
code, passing a "watermark" stack pointer value beyond which shadow will
be cleared. Architectures which don't perform a cold return as part of
idle do not need any additional code.

This is a combination of previous approaches [2,3], attempting to keep
as much as possible generic.

Thanks,
Mark.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=69863
[2] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2016-February/409466.html
[3] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2016-February/411850.html

Mark Rutland (3):
  kasan: add functions to clear stack poison
  sched/kasan: remove stale KASAN poison after hotplug
  arm64: kasan: clear stale stack poison

 arch/arm64/kernel/sleep.S |  4 ++++
 include/linux/kasan.h     |  6 +++++-
 kernel/sched/core.c       |  3 +++
 mm/kasan/kasan.c          | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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1.9.1

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2016-03-03 14:14   ` Mark Rutland
2016-03-03 14:32     ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2016-03-03 12:02 ` [PATCH 0/3] KASAN: clean stale poison upon cold re-entry to kernel Ingo Molnar
2016-03-03 12:38   ` Mark Rutland
2016-03-03 12:44     ` Ingo Molnar
2016-03-03 14:30     ` Andrey Ryabinin
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