Re: [PATCH v6 4/9] mm, kfence: insert KFENCE hooks for SLAB

Marco Elver
2020-10-30T15:42:12Z

On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 at 03:49, Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 2:17 PM Marco Elver <elver@google.com> wrote:
> > Inserts KFENCE hooks into the SLAB allocator.
> [...]
> > diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
> [...]
> > @@ -3416,6 +3427,11 @@ static void cache_flusharray(struct kmem_cache *cachep, struct array_cache *ac)
> > static __always_inline void __cache_free(struct kmem_cache *cachep, void *objp,
> > unsigned long caller)
> > {
> > + if (kfence_free(objp)) {
> > + kmemleak_free_recursive(objp, cachep->flags);
> > + return;
> > + }
>
> This looks dodgy. Normally kmemleak is told that an object is being
> freed *before* the object is actually released. I think that if this
> races really badly, we'll make kmemleak stumble over this bit in
> create_object():
>
> kmemleak_stop("Cannot insert 0x%lx into the object search tree
> (overlaps existing)\n",
> ptr);

Good catch. Although extremely unlikely, let's just avoid it by moving
the freeing after.

>
> > +
> > /* Put the object into the quarantine, don't touch it for now. */
> > if (kasan_slab_free(cachep, objp, _RET_IP_))
> > return;