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* [merged] kfence-fix-is_kfence_address-for-addresses-below-kfence_pool_size.patch removed from -mm tree
@ 2021-08-23 18:24 akpm
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From: akpm @ 2021-08-23 18:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: dvyukov, elver, glider, Kuan-Ying.Lee, mm-commits, stable


The patch titled
     Subject: kfence: fix is_kfence_address() for addresses below KFENCE_POOL_SIZE
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     kfence-fix-is_kfence_address-for-addresses-below-kfence_pool_size.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree

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From: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Subject: kfence: fix is_kfence_address() for addresses below KFENCE_POOL_SIZE

Originally the addr != NULL check was meant to take care of the case where
__kfence_pool == NULL (KFENCE is disabled).  However, this does not work
for addresses where addr > 0 && addr < KFENCE_POOL_SIZE.

This can be the case on NULL-deref where addr > 0 && addr < PAGE_SIZE or
any other faulting access with addr < KFENCE_POOL_SIZE.  While the kernel
would likely crash, the stack traces and report might be confusing due to
double faults upon KFENCE's attempt to unprotect such an address.

Fix it by just checking that __kfence_pool != NULL instead.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210818130300.2482437-1-elver@google.com
Fixes: 0ce20dd84089 ("mm: add Kernel Electric-Fence infrastructure")
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Reported-by: Kuan-Ying Lee <Kuan-Ying.Lee@mediatek.com>
Acked-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>    [5.12+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 include/linux/kfence.h |    7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/kfence.h~kfence-fix-is_kfence_address-for-addresses-below-kfence_pool_size
+++ a/include/linux/kfence.h
@@ -51,10 +51,11 @@ extern atomic_t kfence_allocation_gate;
 static __always_inline bool is_kfence_address(const void *addr)
 {
 	/*
-	 * The non-NULL check is required in case the __kfence_pool pointer was
-	 * never initialized; keep it in the slow-path after the range-check.
+	 * The __kfence_pool != NULL check is required to deal with the case
+	 * where __kfence_pool == NULL && addr < KFENCE_POOL_SIZE. Keep it in
+	 * the slow-path after the range-check!
 	 */
-	return unlikely((unsigned long)((char *)addr - __kfence_pool) < KFENCE_POOL_SIZE && addr);
+	return unlikely((unsigned long)((char *)addr - __kfence_pool) < KFENCE_POOL_SIZE && __kfence_pool);
 }
 
 /**
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from elver@google.com are

kfence-show-cpu-and-timestamp-in-alloc-free-info.patch


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