From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vlastimil Babka Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mm/kasan: dump alloc and free stack for page allocator Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 16:31:42 +0200 Message-ID: <613f9f23-c7f0-871f-fe13-930c35ef3105@suse.cz> References: <20190911083921.4158-1-walter-zh.wu@mediatek.com> <5E358F4B-552C-4542-9655-E01C7B754F14@lca.pw> <1568297308.19040.5.camel@mtksdccf07> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1568297308.19040.5.camel@mtksdccf07> Content-Language: en-US Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Walter Wu Cc: Qian Cai , Andrey Ryabinin , Alexander Potapenko , Dmitry Vyukov , Matthias Brugger , Andrew Morton , Martin Schwidefsky , Andrey Konovalov , Arnd Bergmann , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org, wsd_upstream@mediatek.com List-Id: linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org On 9/12/19 4:08 PM, Walter Wu wrote: > >> extern void __reset_page_owner(struct page *page, unsigned int order); >> diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.kasan b/lib/Kconfig.kasan >> index 6c9682ce0254..dc560c7562e8 100644 >> --- a/lib/Kconfig.kasan >> +++ b/lib/Kconfig.kasan >> @@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ config KASAN_GENERIC >> select SLUB_DEBUG if SLUB >> select CONSTRUCTORS >> select STACKDEPOT >> + select PAGE_OWNER >> + select PAGE_OWNER_FREE_STACK >> help >> Enables generic KASAN mode. >> Supported in both GCC and Clang. With GCC it requires version 4.9.2 >> @@ -63,6 +65,8 @@ config KASAN_SW_TAGS >> select SLUB_DEBUG if SLUB >> select CONSTRUCTORS >> select STACKDEPOT >> + select PAGE_OWNER >> + select PAGE_OWNER_FREE_STACK >> help > > What is the difference between PAGE_OWNER+PAGE_OWNER_FREE_STACK and > DEBUG_PAGEALLOC? Same memory usage, but debug_pagealloc means also extra checks and restricting memory access to freed pages to catch UAF. > If you directly enable PAGE_OWNER+PAGE_OWNER_FREE_STACK > PAGE_OWNER_FREE_STACK,don't you think low-memory device to want to use > KASAN? OK, so it should be optional? But I think it's enough to distinguish no PAGE_OWNER at all, and PAGE_OWNER+PAGE_OWNER_FREE_STACK together - I don't see much point in PAGE_OWNER only for this kind of debugging. So how about this? KASAN wouldn't select PAGE_OWNER* but it would be recommended in the help+docs. When PAGE_OWNER and KASAN are selected by user, PAGE_OWNER_FREE_STACK gets also selected, and both will be also runtime enabled without explicit page_owner=on. I mostly want to avoid another boot-time option for enabling PAGE_OWNER_FREE_STACK. Would that be enough flexibility for low-memory devices vs full-fledged debugging?