From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 20BD31FB7 for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2022 01:11:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DF313C340ED; Fri, 25 Mar 2022 01:11:56 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linux-foundation.org; s=korg; t=1648170717; bh=dujXVfsfjnQf08ICe1uEjg1BtJMpnUUFqkXUqIYqre0=; h=Date:To:From:In-Reply-To:Subject:From; b=dR/vag6dLGMQ5wxRKVDzqsI52X+4L+BTytl5+vkFcE0Acj9IoyAM7/sh32npIleL7 U5R0TuU3FOgMFlypWYr7NY1KskGL25tNHBiU7vABoWWdZJGlaq7UvOQxYA26cetKR/ gXBg4EcwrusVteT6d7SE1AQuLKQs34ulnPN3ZR1E= Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 18:11:56 -0700 To: will@kernel.org,vincenzo.frascino@arm.com,ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com,pcc@google.com,mark.rutland@arm.com,glider@google.com,eugenis@google.com,elver@google.com,dvyukov@google.com,catalin.marinas@arm.com,andreyknvl@google.com,akpm@linux-foundation.org,patches@lists.linux.dev,linux-mm@kvack.org,mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,torvalds@linux-foundation.org,akpm@linux-foundation.org From: Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: <20220324180758.96b1ac7e17675d6bc474485e@linux-foundation.org> Subject: [patch 067/114] kasan: documentation updates Message-Id: <20220325011156.DF313C340ED@smtp.kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: patches@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: From: Andrey Konovalov Subject: kasan: documentation updates Update KASAN documentation: - Bump Clang version requirement for HW_TAGS as ARM64_MTE depends on AS_HAS_LSE_ATOMICS as of commit 2decad92f4731 ("arm64: mte: Ensure TIF_MTE_ASYNC_FAULT is set atomically"), which requires Clang 12. - Add description of the new kasan.vmalloc command line flag. - Mention that SW_TAGS and HW_TAGS modes now support vmalloc tagging. - Explicitly say that the "Shadow memory" section is only applicable to software KASAN modes. - Mention that shadow-based KASAN_VMALLOC is supported on arm64. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a61189128fa3f9fbcfd9884ff653d401864b8e74.1643047180.git.andreyknvl@google.com Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov Acked-by: Marco Elver Cc: Alexander Potapenko Cc: Andrey Ryabinin Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: Evgenii Stepanov Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Peter Collingbourne Cc: Vincenzo Frascino Cc: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst | 17 +++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst~kasan-documentation-updates +++ a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Software tag-based KASAN mode is only su The hardware KASAN mode (#3) relies on hardware to perform the checks but still requires a compiler version that supports memory tagging instructions. -This mode is supported in GCC 10+ and Clang 11+. +This mode is supported in GCC 10+ and Clang 12+. Both software KASAN modes work with SLUB and SLAB memory allocators, while the hardware tag-based KASAN currently only supports SLUB. @@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ additional boot parameters that allow di Asymmetric mode: a bad access is detected synchronously on reads and asynchronously on writes. +- ``kasan.vmalloc=off`` or ``=on`` disables or enables tagging of vmalloc + allocations (default: ``on``). + - ``kasan.stacktrace=off`` or ``=on`` disables or enables alloc and free stack traces collection (default: ``on``). @@ -279,8 +282,8 @@ Software tag-based KASAN uses 0xFF as a pointers with the 0xFF pointer tag are not checked). The value 0xFE is currently reserved to tag freed memory regions. -Software tag-based KASAN currently only supports tagging of slab and page_alloc -memory. +Software tag-based KASAN currently only supports tagging of slab, page_alloc, +and vmalloc memory. Hardware tag-based KASAN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -303,8 +306,8 @@ Hardware tag-based KASAN uses 0xFF as a pointers with the 0xFF pointer tag are not checked). The value 0xFE is currently reserved to tag freed memory regions. -Hardware tag-based KASAN currently only supports tagging of slab and page_alloc -memory. +Hardware tag-based KASAN currently only supports tagging of slab, page_alloc, +and VM_ALLOC-based vmalloc memory. If the hardware does not support MTE (pre ARMv8.5), hardware tag-based KASAN will not be enabled. In this case, all KASAN boot parameters are ignored. @@ -319,6 +322,8 @@ checking gets disabled. Shadow memory ------------- +The contents of this section are only applicable to software KASAN modes. + The kernel maps memory in several different parts of the address space. The range of kernel virtual addresses is large: there is not enough real memory to support a real shadow region for every address that could be @@ -349,7 +354,7 @@ CONFIG_KASAN_VMALLOC With ``CONFIG_KASAN_VMALLOC``, KASAN can cover vmalloc space at the cost of greater memory usage. Currently, this is supported on x86, -riscv, s390, and powerpc. +arm64, riscv, s390, and powerpc. This works by hooking into vmalloc and vmap and dynamically allocating real shadow memory to back the mappings. _