From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
To: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>,
Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
kasan-dev <kasan-dev@googlegroups.com>,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
Wengang Wang <wen.gang.wang@oracle.com>,
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] introduce a new tool, valid access checker
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 16:46:56 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171201074655.GB21404@js1304-P5Q-DELUXE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACT4Y+ZwvVG7aEiZWj-OmbxVdQyFj0ebXnakjeVnar-GQACBfg@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 10:27:00AM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 8:48 AM, <js1304@gmail.com> wrote:
> > From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > This patchset introduces a new tool, valid access checker.
> >
> > Vchecker is a dynamic memory error detector. It provides a new debug feature
> > that can find out an un-intended access to valid area. Valid area here means
> > the memory which is allocated and allowed to be accessed by memory owner and
> > un-intended access means the read/write that is initiated by non-owner.
> > Usual problem of this class is memory overwritten.
> >
> > Most of debug feature focused on finding out un-intended access to
> > in-valid area, for example, out-of-bound access and use-after-free, and,
> > there are many good tools for it. But, as far as I know, there is no good tool
> > to find out un-intended access to valid area. This kind of problem is really
> > hard to solve so this tool would be very useful.
> >
> > This tool doesn't automatically catch a problem. Manual runtime configuration
> > to specify the target object is required.
> >
> > Note that there was a similar attempt for the debugging overwritten problem
> > however it requires manual code modifying and recompile.
> >
> > http://lkml.kernel.org/r/<20171117223043.7277-1-wen.gang.wang@oracle.com>
> >
> > To get more information about vchecker, please see a documention at
> > the last patch.
> >
> > Patchset can also be available at
> >
> > https://github.com/JoonsooKim/linux/tree/vchecker-master-v1.0-next-20171122
> >
> > Enjoy it.
>
>
> Hi Joonsoo,
>
> I skimmed through the code and this looks fine from KASAN point of
> view (minimal code changes and no perf impact).
> I don't feel like I can judge if this should go in or not. I will not
> use this, we use KASAN for large-scale testing, but vchecker is in a
> different bucket, it is meant for developers debugging hard bugs.
> Wengang come up with a very similar change, and Andi said that this
> looks useful.
Thanks for comment.
Hello, other reviewers!
Please let me know more opinions about this patchset.
>
> If the decision is that this goes in, please let me take a closer look
> before this is merged.
I will let you know when the decision is made.
Thanks.
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Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-28 7:48 [PATCH 00/18] introduce a new tool, valid access checker js1304
2017-11-28 7:48 ` [PATCH 01/18] mm/kasan: make some kasan functions global js1304
2017-11-28 7:48 ` [PATCH 02/18] vchecker: introduce the valid access checker js1304
2017-11-28 19:41 ` Andi Kleen
2017-11-29 5:36 ` Joonsoo Kim
2017-12-01 5:08 ` kbuild test robot
2017-12-01 8:01 ` Joonsoo Kim
2017-11-28 7:48 ` [PATCH 03/18] vchecker: mark/unmark the shadow of the allocated objects js1304
2017-11-28 7:48 ` [PATCH 04/18] vchecker: prepare per object memory for vchecker js1304
2017-11-28 7:48 ` [PATCH 05/18] vchecker: store/report callstack of value writer js1304
2017-11-28 7:48 ` [PATCH 06/18] lib/stackdepot: Add is_new arg to depot_save_stack js1304
2017-11-28 7:48 ` [PATCH 07/18] lib/stackdepot: extend stackdepot API to support per-user stackdepot js1304
2017-11-28 7:48 ` [PATCH 08/18] vchecker: Add 'callstack' checker js1304
2017-11-28 7:48 ` [PATCH 09/18] vchecker: Support toggle on/off of callstack check js1304
2017-11-28 7:48 ` [PATCH 10/18] vchecker: Use __GFP_ATOMIC to save stacktrace js1304
2017-11-28 7:48 ` [PATCH 11/18] vchecker: consistently exclude vchecker's stacktrace js1304
2017-11-28 7:48 ` [PATCH 12/18] vchecker: fix 'remove' handling on callstack checker js1304
2017-11-28 7:48 ` [PATCH 13/18] mm/vchecker: support inline KASAN build js1304
2017-11-28 7:48 ` [PATCH 14/18] mm/vchecker: make callstack depth configurable js1304
2017-11-28 7:48 ` [PATCH 15/18] mm/vchecker: pass allocation caller address to vchecker hook js1304
2017-12-01 2:39 ` kbuild test robot
2017-12-01 3:01 ` kbuild test robot
2017-11-28 7:48 ` [PATCH 16/18] mm/vchecker: support allocation caller filter js1304
2017-11-28 7:48 ` [PATCH 17/18] lib/vchecker_test: introduce a sample for vchecker test js1304
2017-11-28 7:48 ` [PATCH 18/18] doc: add vchecker document js1304
2017-11-29 9:27 ` [PATCH 00/18] introduce a new tool, valid access checker Dmitry Vyukov
2017-12-01 7:46 ` Joonsoo Kim [this message]
2017-12-22 1:51 ` Joonsoo Kim
2018-01-18 22:39 ` Andrew Morton
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