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* [PATCH 00/12] slab: Introduce kmalloc_size_roundup()
@ 2022-09-22  3:10 Kees Cook
  2022-09-22  3:10 ` [PATCH 01/12] " Kees Cook
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From: Kees Cook @ 2022-09-22  3:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Vlastimil Babka
  Cc: Kees Cook, Pekka Enberg, David Rientjes, Joonsoo Kim,
	Andrew Morton, David S. Miller, Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski,
	Paolo Abeni, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Nick Desaulniers, Alex Elder,
	Josef Bacik, David Sterba, Sumit Semwal, Christian König,
	Jesse Brandeburg, Daniel Micay, Yonghong Song, Marco Elver,
	Miguel Ojeda, Jacob Shin, linux-kernel, linux-mm, netdev,
	linux-btrfs, linux-media, dri-devel, linaro-mm-sig,
	linux-fsdevel, intel-wired-lan, dev, x86, linux-wireless, llvm,
	linux-hardening

Hi,

This series fixes up the cases where callers of ksize() use it to
opportunistically grow their buffer sizes, which can run afoul of the
__alloc_size hinting that CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS and CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE
use to perform dynamic buffer bounds checking. Quoting the first patch:


In the effort to help the compiler reason about buffer sizes, the
__alloc_size attribute was added to allocators. This improves the scope
of the compiler's ability to apply CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS and (in the near
future) CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE. For most allocations, this works well,
as the vast majority of callers are not expecting to use more memory
than what they asked for.

There is, however, one common exception to this: anticipatory resizing
of kmalloc allocations. These cases all use ksize() to determine the
actual bucket size of a given allocation (e.g. 128 when 126 was asked
for). This comes in two styles in the kernel:

1) An allocation has been determined to be too small, and needs to be
   resized. Instead of the caller choosing its own next best size, it
   wants to minimize the number of calls to krealloc(), so it just uses
   ksize() plus some additional bytes, forcing the realloc into the next
   bucket size, from which it can learn how large it is now. For example:

	data = krealloc(data, ksize(data) + 1, gfp);
	data_len = ksize(data);

2) The minimum size of an allocation is calculated, but since it may
   grow in the future, just use all the space available in the chosen
   bucket immediately, to avoid needing to reallocate later. A good
   example of this is skbuff's allocators:

	data = kmalloc_reserve(size, gfp_mask, node, &pfmemalloc);
	...
	/* kmalloc(size) might give us more room than requested.
	 * Put skb_shared_info exactly at the end of allocated zone,
	 * to allow max possible filling before reallocation.
	 */
	osize = ksize(data);
        size = SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD(osize);

In both cases, the "how large is the allocation?" question is answered
_after_ the allocation, where the compiler hinting is not in an easy place
to make the association any more. This mismatch between the compiler's
view of the buffer length and the code's intention about how much it is
going to actually use has already caused problems[1]. It is possible to
fix this by reordering the use of the "actual size" information.

We can serve the needs of users of ksize() and still have accurate buffer
length hinting for the compiler by doing the bucket size calculation
_before_ the allocation. Code can instead ask "how large an allocation
would I get for a given size?".

Introduce kmalloc_size_roundup(), to serve this function so we can start
replacing the "anticipatory resizing" uses of ksize().

[1] https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1599
    https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/183
-------

And after adding kmalloc_size_roundup(), put it to use with the various
ksize() callers, restore the previously removed __alloc_size hint,
and fix the use of __malloc annotations.

I tried to trim the CC list on this series since it got rather long. I
kept all the suggested mailing lists, though. :)

Thanks!

-Kees

Kees Cook (12):
  slab: Introduce kmalloc_size_roundup()
  skbuff: Proactively round up to kmalloc bucket size
  net: ipa: Proactively round up to kmalloc bucket size
  btrfs: send: Proactively round up to kmalloc bucket size
  dma-buf: Proactively round up to kmalloc bucket size
  coredump: Proactively round up to kmalloc bucket size
  igb: Proactively round up to kmalloc bucket size
  openvswitch: Proactively round up to kmalloc bucket size
  x86/microcode/AMD: Track patch allocation size explicitly
  iwlwifi: Track scan_cmd allocation size explicitly
  slab: Remove __malloc attribute from realloc functions
  slab: Restore __alloc_size attribute to __kmalloc_track_caller

 arch/x86/include/asm/microcode.h              |  1 +
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c           |  3 +-
 drivers/dma-buf/dma-resv.c                    |  9 +++-
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c     |  1 +
 drivers/net/ipa/gsi_trans.c                   |  7 ++-
 drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/dvm/dev.h  |  1 +
 drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/dvm/scan.c | 10 +++-
 drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mvm.h  |  3 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/ops.c  |  3 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/scan.c |  6 +--
 fs/btrfs/send.c                               | 11 +++--
 fs/coredump.c                                 |  7 ++-
 include/linux/compiler_types.h                | 13 ++----
 include/linux/slab.h                          | 46 ++++++++++++++++---
 mm/slab_common.c                              | 17 +++++++
 net/core/skbuff.c                             | 34 +++++++-------
 net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c                |  4 +-
 17 files changed, 125 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)

-- 
2.34.1


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2022-09-22  3:10 ` [PATCH 01/12] " Kees Cook
2022-09-22 11:12   ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2022-09-23  1:17     ` Feng Tang
2022-09-23 18:50       ` Kees Cook
2022-09-22  3:10 ` [PATCH 02/12] skbuff: Proactively round up to kmalloc bucket size Kees Cook
2022-09-22 19:40   ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-09-22  3:10 ` [PATCH 03/12] net: ipa: " Kees Cook
2022-09-22 13:45   ` Alex Elder
2022-09-22 15:57     ` Kees Cook
2022-09-22  3:10 ` [PATCH 04/12] btrfs: send: " Kees Cook
2022-09-22 13:30   ` David Sterba
2022-09-22  3:10 ` [PATCH 05/12] dma-buf: " Kees Cook
2022-09-22  3:10 ` [PATCH 06/12] coredump: " Kees Cook
2022-09-22  3:10 ` [PATCH 07/12] igb: " Kees Cook
2022-09-22 15:56   ` Ruhl, Michael J
2022-09-22 16:00     ` Kees Cook
2022-09-22  3:10 ` [PATCH 08/12] openvswitch: " Kees Cook
2022-09-22  3:10 ` [PATCH 09/12] x86/microcode/AMD: Track patch allocation size explicitly Kees Cook
2022-09-22  3:10 ` [PATCH 10/12] iwlwifi: Track scan_cmd " Kees Cook
2022-09-22  4:18   ` Kalle Valo
2022-09-22  5:26     ` Kees Cook
2022-09-22  3:10 ` [PATCH 11/12] slab: Remove __malloc attribute from realloc functions Kees Cook
2022-09-22  9:23   ` Miguel Ojeda
2022-09-22 15:56     ` Kees Cook
2022-09-22 17:41       ` Miguel Ojeda
2022-09-22  3:10 ` [PATCH 12/12] slab: Restore __alloc_size attribute to __kmalloc_track_caller Kees Cook
2022-09-22  7:10 ` [PATCH 00/12] slab: Introduce kmalloc_size_roundup() Christian König
2022-09-22 15:55   ` Kees Cook
2022-09-22 21:05     ` Vlastimil Babka
2022-09-22 21:49       ` Kees Cook
2022-09-23  9:07         ` Vlastimil Babka

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