From: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
To: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
Harry Yoo <harry@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>,
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>,
Hao Li <hao.li@linux.dev>, Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] mm/kasan/kunit: Add double-free tests involving kfree_rcu_sheaf().
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2026 21:46:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261009214639.2878857-3-kuniyu@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261009214639.2878857-1-kuniyu@google.com>
The new test cases verify that KASAN immediately detects all
three combinations of double-free involving kfree_rcu_sheaf():
1. kmem_cache_free() -> kfree_rcu()
2. kfree_rcu() -> kmem_cache_free()
3. kfree_rcu() -> kfree_rcu()
Each test also evicts the object from the KASAN quarantine and
reallocates it as a victim object before flushing the RCU sheaf
to ensure the live victim object is not poisoned by the rejected
double-free.
Without the patch, all tests fail to detect the 2nd free, and
the victim is poisoned:
# kmem_cache_double_free_rcu_1: EXPECTATION FAILED at mm/kasan/kasan_test_c.c:1096
KASAN failure expected in "kfree_rcu(p, rcu)", but none occurred
... <splat below is logged here>
# kmem_cache_double_free_rcu_1: EXPECTATION FAILED at mm/kasan/kasan_test_c.c:1156
Expected (<...snipped READ_ONCE()...>&(victim->i)); }) == 42, but
<...snipped READ_ONCE()...>victim->i == 117729280 (0x7046800)
# kasan: pass:0 fail:3 skip:0 total:3
# Totals: pass:0 fail:3 skip:0 total:3
not ok 1 kasan
In all cases, KASAN logs a false-positive use-after-free splat at
READ_ONCE(victim->i), and it has no information about the suspect;
the two stack traces ("Call Trace:" and "Allocated by") are of the
live victim, and "Freed by" is of the RCU task.
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __kmem_cache_double_free_rcu+0x9ee/0xaf0
Read of size 4 at addr ffff8881076c2938 by task kunit_try_catch/513
...
Freed by task 0:
...
__rcu_free_sheaf_prepare+0xf6/0x240
rcu_free_sheaf_nobarn+0x31/0xe0
rcu_core+0x75e/0x16b0
With the patch, all tests can detect the 2nd free immediately and
prevent the victim from being poisoned:
# kasan: pass:3 fail:0 skip:0 total:3
# Totals: pass:3 fail:0 skip:0 total:3
ok 1 kasan
All the stack traces point to the same object for double-free,
and the two free traces are shown in "Call Trace:" and "Freed by"
(or "Last potentially related work creation:" in the 2nd/3rd test
cases).
BUG: KASAN: double-free in kvfree_call_rcu+0xb6/0x3c0
Free of addr ffff888108495938 by task kunit_try_catch/511
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
...
check_slab_allocation+0x10d/0x120
__kfree_rcu_sheaf+0x1c/0x2d0
kvfree_call_rcu+0xb6/0x3c0
__kmem_cache_double_free_rcu+0x310/0xaf0
Allocated by task 511:
...
kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x14f/0x3c0
__kmem_cache_double_free_rcu+0x152/0xaf0
Freed by task 511:
...
kmem_cache_free+0x14f/0x3c0
__kmem_cache_double_free_rcu+0x2c6/0xaf0
Notably, in the 2nd/3rd test cases, we can detect the 2nd free
before the object is poisoned:
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff888106dc7800: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
ffff888106dc7880: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff888106dc7900: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc
^
...
ok 2 kmem_cache_double_free_rcu_2
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
---
mm/kasan/kasan_test_c.c | 131 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 131 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm/kasan/kasan_test_c.c b/mm/kasan/kasan_test_c.c
index b9e167ed5be3..60d25eb7cb01 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/kasan_test_c.c
+++ b/mm/kasan/kasan_test_c.c
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
#include <asm/page.h>
#include "kasan.h"
+#include "../slab.h"
#define OOB_TAG_OFF (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC) ? 0 : KASAN_GRANULE_SIZE)
@@ -1070,6 +1071,131 @@ static void kmem_cache_double_free(struct kunit *test)
kmem_cache_destroy(cache);
}
+#ifndef MODULE
+static void __kmem_cache_double_free_rcu(struct kunit *test, int mode)
+{
+ struct kasan_rcu_info *p, *victim = NULL, **objs;
+ struct kmem_cache *cache;
+ int i, n = 0;
+
+ KASAN_TEST_NEEDS_CONFIG_ON(test, CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC);
+
+ cache = kmem_cache_create("test_cache", sizeof(*p), 0, SLAB_NO_MERGE,
+ NULL);
+ KUNIT_ASSERT_NOT_ERR_OR_NULL(test, cache);
+
+ if (!cache->sheaf_capacity) {
+ kmem_cache_destroy(cache);
+ kunit_skip(test, "Test requires sheaves");
+ }
+
+ objs = kunit_kcalloc(test, cache->sheaf_capacity * 2, sizeof(*objs),
+ GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!objs) {
+ kunit_err(test, "Allocation failed: %s\n", __func__);
+ goto out;
+ }
+
+ p = kmem_cache_alloc(cache, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!p) {
+ kunit_err(test, "Allocation failed: %s\n", __func__);
+ goto out;
+ }
+
+ switch (mode) {
+ case 1:
+ kmem_cache_free(cache, p);
+ /* p is already in quarantine. */
+ KUNIT_EXPECT_KASAN_FAIL(test, kfree_rcu(p, rcu));
+ break;
+ case 2:
+ /* The actual free order is inverse. */
+ kfree_rcu(p, rcu);
+ KUNIT_EXPECT_KASAN_FAIL(test, kmem_cache_free(cache, p));
+
+ /* Move p to quarantine if kmem_cache_free() was rejected. */
+ if (kasan_byte_accessible(p))
+ kvfree_rcu_barrier_on_cache(cache);
+ break;
+ case 3:
+ migrate_disable();
+ kfree_rcu(p, rcu);
+
+ for (i = 0; i < cache->sheaf_capacity - 1; i++) {
+ objs[i] = kmem_cache_alloc(cache, GFP_KERNEL);
+ kfree_rcu(objs[i], rcu);
+ }
+
+ KUNIT_EXPECT_KASAN_FAIL(test, kfree_rcu(p, rcu));
+ migrate_enable();
+
+ /*
+ * Move the 1st full sheaf to quarantine, keeping the
+ * 2nd in pcs->rcu_free.
+ */
+ rcu_barrier();
+ break;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Evict p from quarantine and reallocate it as a live victim object
+ * before the RCU sheaf is flushed.
+ */
+ kasan_quarantine_remove_cache(cache);
+
+ for (i = 0; i < cache->sheaf_capacity * 2; i++) {
+ objs[n] = kmem_cache_alloc(cache, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!objs[n])
+ break;
+ if (objs[n] == p) {
+ victim = objs[n];
+ break;
+ }
+ n++;
+ }
+
+ for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
+ kmem_cache_free(cache, objs[i]);
+
+ KUNIT_EXPECT_PTR_EQ(test, victim, p);
+ if (victim != p)
+ goto out;
+
+ WRITE_ONCE(victim->i, 42);
+
+ /*
+ * If kfree_rcu() failed to reject the double-free above,
+ * flushing the RCU sheaf will silently poison the live
+ * victim and cause a false-positive UAF on victim->i.
+ */
+ kvfree_rcu_barrier_on_cache(cache);
+ KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, READ_ONCE(victim->i), 42);
+
+ if (!READ_ONCE(test_status.report_found))
+ kmem_cache_free(cache, victim);
+out:
+ kmem_cache_destroy(cache);
+}
+
+static void kmem_cache_double_free_rcu_1(struct kunit *test)
+{
+ /* kmem_cache_free() -> kfree_rcu() */
+ __kmem_cache_double_free_rcu(test, 1);
+}
+
+static void kmem_cache_double_free_rcu_2(struct kunit *test)
+{
+ /* kfree_rcu() -> kmem_cache_free() */
+ __kmem_cache_double_free_rcu(test, 2);
+}
+
+static void kmem_cache_double_free_rcu_3(struct kunit *test)
+{
+ /* kfree_rcu() -> kfree_rcu() */
+ __kmem_cache_double_free_rcu(test, 3);
+}
+#endif
+
static void kmem_cache_invalid_free(struct kunit *test)
{
char *p;
@@ -2239,6 +2365,11 @@ static struct kunit_case kasan_kunit_test_cases[] = {
KUNIT_CASE(kfree_via_phys),
KUNIT_CASE(kmem_cache_oob),
KUNIT_CASE(kmem_cache_double_free),
+#ifndef MODULE
+ KUNIT_CASE(kmem_cache_double_free_rcu_1),
+ KUNIT_CASE(kmem_cache_double_free_rcu_2),
+ KUNIT_CASE(kmem_cache_double_free_rcu_3),
+#endif
KUNIT_CASE(kmem_cache_invalid_free),
KUNIT_CASE(kmem_cache_rcu_uaf),
KUNIT_CASE(kmem_cache_rcu_reuse),
--
2.56.0.385.gd3acb90ef8-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-09 21:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-09 21:46 [PATCH 0/2] mm/kasan: Detect double-free involving kfree_rcu_sheaf() Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-10-09 21:46 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-10-20 12:29 ` Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2026-10-27 12:48 ` Alexander Potapenko
2026-10-27 21:51 ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-10-09 21:46 ` Kuniyuki Iwashima [this message]
2026-10-27 12:48 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm/kasan/kunit: Add double-free tests " Alexander Potapenko
2026-10-27 22:16 ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-10-27 6:15 ` [PATCH 0/2] mm/kasan: Detect double-free " Kuniyuki Iwashima
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