From: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
To: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>,
Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>,
Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>,
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
kasan-dev <kasan-dev@googlegroups.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] kasan: improve double-free reports.
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 15:34:07 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57A0933F.8000706@virtuozzo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG_fn=WP2VmNNuzp1YMi+vPLaG9B3JH9TD4FfzxVyeZL2AyM_Q@mail.gmail.com>
On 08/02/2016 02:39 PM, Alexander Potapenko wrote:
>> +static void kasan_end_report(unsigned long *flags)
>> +{
>> + pr_err("==================================================================\n");
>> + add_taint(TAINT_BAD_PAGE, LOCKDEP_NOW_UNRELIABLE);
> Don't we want to add the taint as early as possible once we've
> detected the error?
What for?
It certainly shouldn't be before dump_stack(), otherwise on the first report the kernel will claimed as tainted.
>>
>> +void kasan_report_double_free(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object,
>> + s8 shadow)
>> +{
>> + unsigned long flags;
>> +
>> + kasan_start_report(&flags);
>> + pr_err("BUG: Double free or corrupt pointer\n");
> How about "Double free or freeing an invalid pointer\n"?
> I think "corrupt pointer" doesn't exactly reflect where the bug is.
Ok
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-02 12:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-01 14:45 [PATCH 1/6] mm/kasan: fix corruptions and false positive reports Andrey Ryabinin
2016-08-01 14:45 ` [PATCH 2/6] mm/kasan: don't reduce quarantine in atomic contexts Andrey Ryabinin
2016-08-02 11:42 ` Alexander Potapenko
2016-08-01 14:45 ` [PATCH 3/6] mm/kasan, slub: don't disable interrupts when object leaves quarantine Andrey Ryabinin
2016-08-01 14:47 ` Alexander Potapenko
2016-08-01 14:45 ` [PATCH 4/6] mm/kasan: get rid of ->alloc_size in struct kasan_alloc_meta Andrey Ryabinin
2016-08-01 14:45 ` [PATCH 5/6] mm/kasan: get rid of ->state " Andrey Ryabinin
2016-08-02 12:37 ` Alexander Potapenko
2016-08-01 14:45 ` [PATCH 6/6] kasan: improve double-free reports Andrey Ryabinin
2016-08-02 11:39 ` Alexander Potapenko
2016-08-02 12:05 ` Alexander Potapenko
2016-08-02 12:34 ` Andrey Ryabinin [this message]
2016-08-02 12:53 ` Alexander Potapenko
2016-08-02 16:00 ` [PATCH] kasan-improve-double-free-reports-fix Andrey Ryabinin
2016-08-01 14:45 ` [PATCH 1/6] mm/kasan: fix corruptions and false positive reports Alexander Potapenko
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