From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-yw0-f199.google.com (mail-yw0-f199.google.com [209.85.161.199]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B791C6B0005 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:45:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-yw0-f199.google.com with SMTP id n8so10763520ywh.10 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2018 11:45:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-sor-f65.google.com (mail-sor-f65.google.com. [209.85.220.65]) by mx.google.com with SMTPS id j2-v6sor2988820ybc.22.2018.03.16.11.45.43 for (Google Transport Security); Fri, 16 Mar 2018 11:45:43 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <06a4d0c483fba8babd01fe23727fe4a79482d309.1520017438.git.andreyknvl@google.com> <7f8e8f46-791e-7e8f-551b-f93aa64bcf6e@virtuozzo.com> From: Evgenii Stepanov Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 11:45:42 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 09/14] khwasan: add hooks implementation Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Andrey Konovalov Cc: Andrey Ryabinin , Alexander Potapenko , Dmitry Vyukov , Jonathan Corbet , Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Theodore Ts'o , Jan Kara , Christopher Li , Christoph Lameter , Pekka Enberg , David Rientjes , Joonsoo Kim , Andrew Morton , Masahiro Yamada , Michal Marek , Mark Rutland , Ard Biesheuvel , Yury Norov , Nick Desaulniers , Marc Zyngier , Suzuki K Poulose , Kristina Martsenko , Punit Agrawal , Dave Martin , James Morse , Julien Thierry , Michael Weiser , Steve Capper , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Sandipan Das , Paul Lawrence , David Woodhouse , Kees Cook , Geert Uytterhoeven , Josh Poimboeuf , Arnd Bergmann , kasan-dev , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, LKML , Linux ARM , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org, Linux Memory Management List , Linux Kbuild mailing list , Kostya Serebryany , Lee Smith , Ramana Radhakrishnan , Jacob Bramley , Ruben Ayrapetyan , Kees Cook , Jann Horn , Mark Brand On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 11:24 AM, Andrey Konovalov wrote: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 7:16 PM, Evgenii Stepanov wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 11:09 AM, Andrey Konovalov >> wrote: >>> On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 5:52 PM, Andrey Ryabinin >>>> Wouldn't be better to have some reserved tag value for invalid memory (redzones/free), so that >>>> we catch access to such memory with 100% probability? >>> >>> We could do that. That would reduce the chance to detect a >>> use-after-free though, since we're using fewer different tag values >>> for the objects themselves. I don't have a strong opinion about which >>> one is better though. > > Note: I misread the message and didn't notice the "/free" part there, > so I was considering marking only redzones with a reserved tag value. > >> >> hwasan does not need redzones. > > Right, by redzones in this case I meant the metadata that is stored > right after the object (which includes alloc and free stack handles > and perhaps some other allocator stuff). Oh, I did not realize we have free (as in beer, not as in use-after-free) redzones between allocations. Yes, reserving a color sounds like a good idea. > >> As for use-after-free, to catch it with >> 100% probability one would need infinite memory for the quarantine. It >> is possible to guarantee 100% detection of linear buffer overflow by >> giving live adjacent chunks distinct tags.