Re: [PATCH] kasan, mm: fix crash with HW_TAGS and DEBUG_PAGEALLOC

From: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
	Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>,
	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
	Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>,
	Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
	Marco Elver <elver@google.com>,
	Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>,
	Evgenii Stepanov <eugenis@google.com>,
	Branislav Rankov <Branislav.Rankov@arm.com>,
	Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	kasan-dev <kasan-dev@googlegroups.com>,
	Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kasan, mm: fix crash with HW_TAGS and DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2021 18:04:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAeHK+wyh=vpw=Gbi+NqZ0A1z-0a8pQS8q0OkOfLc9o=zhMEUA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1aa83e48627978de8068d5e3314185f3a0d7a849.1614302398.git.andreyknvl@google.com>

On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 2:25 AM Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> wrote:
>
> Currently, kasan_free_nondeferred_pages()->kasan_free_pages() is called
> after debug_pagealloc_unmap_pages(). This causes a crash when
> debug_pagealloc is enabled, as HW_TAGS KASAN can't set tags on an
> unmapped page.
>
> This patch puts kasan_free_nondeferred_pages() before
> debug_pagealloc_unmap_pages().
>
> Besides fixing the crash, this also makes the annotation order consistent
> with debug_pagealloc_map_pages() preceding kasan_alloc_pages().
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
> ---
>  mm/page_alloc.c | 8 ++++++--
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index c89e7b107514..54bc237fd319 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -1311,10 +1311,14 @@ static __always_inline bool free_pages_prepare(struct page *page,
>          */
>         arch_free_page(page, order);
>
> -       debug_pagealloc_unmap_pages(page, 1 << order);
> -
> +       /*
> +        * With hardware tag-based KASAN, memory tags must be set
> +        * before unmapping the page with debug_pagealloc.
> +        */
>         kasan_free_nondeferred_pages(page, order, fpi_flags);

Looking at this again, I think we need to move kasan_() callback above
arch_free_page(), as that can also make the page unavailable. I'll
send v2.