Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86/kasan: Populate shadow for shared chunk of the CPU entry area

[Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>]

On 11/8/22 23:03, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 08, 2022, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
>>
>> On 11/4/22 21:32, Sean Christopherson wrote:
>>> @@ -409,6 +410,15 @@ void __init kasan_init(void)
>>>  		kasan_mem_to_shadow((void *)VMALLOC_END + 1),
>>>  		(void *)shadow_cea_begin);
>>>  
>>> +	/*
>>> +	 * Populate the shadow for the shared portion of the CPU entry area.
>>> +	 * Shadows for the per-CPU areas are mapped on-demand, as each CPU's
>>> +	 * area is randomly placed somewhere in the 512GiB range and mapping
>>> +	 * the entire 512GiB range is prohibitively expensive.
>>> +	 */
>>> +	kasan_populate_shadow(shadow_cea_begin,
>>> +			      shadow_cea_per_cpu_begin, 0);
>>> +
>>
>> I think we can extend the kasan_populate_early_shadow() call above up to
>> shadow_cea_per_cpu_begin point, instead of this.
>> populate_early_shadow() maps single RO zeroed page. No one should write to the shadow for IDT.
>> KASAN only needs writable shadow for linear mapping/stacks/vmalloc/global variables.
> 
> Is that the only difference between the "early" and "normal" variants?

It is. kasan_populate_shadow() allocates new memory and maps it, while the "early" one maps
'kasan_early_shadow_page' 

>  If so, renaming them to kasan_populate_ro_shadow() vs. kasan_populate_rw_shadow() would
> make this code much more intuitive for non-KASAN folks.
> 

Agreed.