Re: [PATCH v3 01/10] mm: add Kernel Electric-Fence infrastructure

[SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.com>]

On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 15:26:02 +0200 Marco Elver <elver@google.com> wrote:

> From: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
> 
> This adds the Kernel Electric-Fence (KFENCE) infrastructure. KFENCE is a
> low-overhead sampling-based memory safety error detector of heap
> use-after-free, invalid-free, and out-of-bounds access errors.
> 
> KFENCE is designed to be enabled in production kernels, and has near
> zero performance overhead. Compared to KASAN, KFENCE trades performance
> for precision. The main motivation behind KFENCE's design, is that with
> enough total uptime KFENCE will detect bugs in code paths not typically
> exercised by non-production test workloads. One way to quickly achieve a
> large enough total uptime is when the tool is deployed across a large
> fleet of machines.
> 
> KFENCE objects each reside on a dedicated page, at either the left or
> right page boundaries. The pages to the left and right of the object
> page are "guard pages", whose attributes are changed to a protected
> state, and cause page faults on any attempted access to them. Such page
> faults are then intercepted by KFENCE, which handles the fault
> gracefully by reporting a memory access error. To detect out-of-bounds
> writes to memory within the object's page itself, KFENCE also uses
> pattern-based redzones. The following figure illustrates the page
> layout:
> 
>   ---+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+---
>      | xxxxxxxxx | O :       | xxxxxxxxx |       : O | xxxxxxxxx |
>      | xxxxxxxxx | B :       | xxxxxxxxx |       : B | xxxxxxxxx |
>      | x GUARD x | J : RED-  | x GUARD x | RED-  : J | x GUARD x |
>      | xxxxxxxxx | E :  ZONE | xxxxxxxxx |  ZONE : E | xxxxxxxxx |
>      | xxxxxxxxx | C :       | xxxxxxxxx |       : C | xxxxxxxxx |
>      | xxxxxxxxx | T :       | xxxxxxxxx |       : T | xxxxxxxxx |
>   ---+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+---
> 
> Guarded allocations are set up based on a sample interval (can be set
> via kfence.sample_interval). After expiration of the sample interval, a
> guarded allocation from the KFENCE object pool is returned to the main
> allocator (SLAB or SLUB). At this point, the timer is reset, and the
> next allocation is set up after the expiration of the interval.
> 
> To enable/disable a KFENCE allocation through the main allocator's
> fast-path without overhead, KFENCE relies on static branches via the
> static keys infrastructure. The static branch is toggled to redirect the
> allocation to KFENCE. To date, we have verified by running synthetic
> benchmarks (sysbench I/O workloads) that a kernel compiled with KFENCE
> is performance-neutral compared to the non-KFENCE baseline.
> 
> For more details, see Documentation/dev-tools/kfence.rst (added later in
> the series).
> 
> Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
> Co-developed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
> ---
> v3:
> * Reports by SeongJae Park:
>   * Remove reference to Documentation/dev-tools/kfence.rst.
>   * Remove redundant braces.
>   * Use CONFIG_KFENCE_NUM_OBJECTS instead of ARRAY_SIZE(...).
>   * Align some comments.
> * Add figure from Documentation/dev-tools/kfence.rst added later in
>   series to patch description.
> 
> v2:
> * Add missing __printf attribute to seq_con_printf, and fix new warning.
>   [reported by kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>]
> * Fix up some comments [reported by Jonathan Cameron].
> * Remove 2 cases of redundant stack variable initialization
>   [reported by Jonathan Cameron].
> * Fix printf format [reported by kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>].
> * Print (in kfence-#nn) after address, to more clearly establish link
>   between first and second stacktrace [reported by Andrey Konovalov].
> * Make choice between KASAN and KFENCE clearer in Kconfig help text
>   [suggested by Dave Hansen].
> * Document CONFIG_KFENCE_SAMPLE_INTERVAL=0.
> * Shorten memory corruption report line length.
> * Make /sys/module/kfence/parameters/sample_interval root-writable for
>   all builds (to enable debugging, automatic dynamic tweaking).
> * Reports by Dmitry Vyukov:
>   * Do not store negative size for right-located objects
>   * Only cache-align addresses of right-located objects.
>   * Run toggle_allocation_gate() after KFENCE is enabled.
>   * Add empty line between allocation and free stacks.
>   * Add comment about SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU.
>   * Also skip internals for allocation/free stacks.
>   * s/KFENCE_FAULT_INJECTION/KFENCE_STRESS_TEST_FAULTS/ as FAULT_INJECTION
>     is already overloaded in different contexts.
>   * Parenthesis for macro variable.
>   * Lower max of KFENCE_NUM_OBJECTS config variable.
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS            |  11 +
>  include/linux/kfence.h | 174 ++++++++++
>  init/main.c            |   2 +
>  lib/Kconfig.debug      |   1 +
>  lib/Kconfig.kfence     |  63 ++++
>  mm/Makefile            |   1 +
>  mm/kfence/Makefile     |   3 +
>  mm/kfence/core.c       | 733 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  mm/kfence/kfence.h     | 102 ++++++
>  mm/kfence/report.c     | 219 ++++++++++++
>  10 files changed, 1309 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 include/linux/kfence.h
>  create mode 100644 lib/Kconfig.kfence
>  create mode 100644 mm/kfence/Makefile
>  create mode 100644 mm/kfence/core.c
>  create mode 100644 mm/kfence/kfence.h
>  create mode 100644 mm/kfence/report.c
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index b5cfab015bd6..863899ed9a29 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -9673,6 +9673,17 @@ F:	include/linux/keyctl.h
>  F:	include/uapi/linux/keyctl.h
>  F:	security/keys/
>  
> +KFENCE
> +M:	Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
> +M:	Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
> +R:	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
> +L:	kasan-dev@googlegroups.com
> +S:	Maintained
> +F:	Documentation/dev-tools/kfence.rst

This patch doesn't introduce this file yet, right?  How about using a separate
final patch for MAINTAINERS update?

Other than that,

Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>


Thanks,
SeongJae Park