From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
To: Walter Wu <walter-zh.wu@mediatek.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>,
Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org, wsd_upstream@mediatek.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm/kasan: dump alloc/free stack for page allocator
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2019 16:13:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7998e8f1-e5e2-da84-ea1f-33e696015dce@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1567605965.32522.14.camel@mtksdccf07>
On 9/4/19 4:06 PM, Walter Wu wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-09-04 at 14:49 +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>> On 9/4/19 8:51 AM, Walter Wu wrote:
>> > This patch is KASAN report adds the alloc/free stacks for page allocator
>> > in order to help programmer to see memory corruption caused by page.
>> >
>> > By default, KASAN doesn't record alloc/free stack for page allocator.
>> > It is difficult to fix up page use-after-free issue.
>> >
>> > This feature depends on page owner to record the last stack of pages.
>> > It is very helpful for solving the page use-after-free or out-of-bound.
>> >
>> > KASAN report will show the last stack of page, it may be:
>> > a) If page is in-use state, then it prints alloc stack.
>> > It is useful to fix up page out-of-bound issue.
>>
>> I expect this will conflict both in syntax and semantics with my series [1] that
>> adds the freeing stack to page_owner when used together with debug_pagealloc,
>> and it's now in mmotm. Glad others see the need as well :) Perhaps you could
>> review the series, see if it fulfils your usecase (AFAICS the series should be a
>> superset, by storing both stacks at once), and perhaps either make KASAN enable
>> debug_pagealloc, or turn KASAN into an alternative enabler of the functionality
>> there?
>>
>> Thanks, Vlastimil
>>
>> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20190820131828.22684-1-vbabka@suse.cz/t/#u
>>
> Thanks your information.
> We focus on the smartphone, so it doesn't enable
> CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE, Is it invalid for our usecase?
The THP fix is not required for the rest of the series, it was even merged to
mainline separately.
> And It looks like something is different, because we only need last
> stack of page, so it can decrease memory overhead.
That would save you depot_stack_handle_t (which is u32) per page. I guess that's
nothing compared to KASAN overhead?
> I will try to enable debug_pagealloc(with your patch) and KASAN, then we
> see the result.
Thanks.
> Thanks.
> Walter
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-04 14:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-04 6:51 [PATCH 1/2] mm/kasan: dump alloc/free stack for page allocator Walter Wu
2019-09-04 12:49 ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-09-04 14:06 ` Walter Wu
2019-09-04 14:13 ` Vlastimil Babka [this message]
2019-09-04 14:24 ` Walter Wu
2019-09-05 8:03 ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-09-06 3:15 ` Walter Wu
2019-09-04 13:44 ` Andrey Konovalov
2019-09-04 14:16 ` Walter Wu
2019-09-04 14:37 ` Qian Cai
2019-09-05 1:54 ` Walter Wu
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