From: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
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>,
"Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>,
Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
wsd_upstream <wsd_upstream@mediatek.com>,
linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] kasan: memorize and print call_rcu stack
Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 01:53:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2BF68E83-4611-48B2-A57F-196236399219@lca.pw> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200506051853.14380-1-walter-zh.wu@mediatek.com>
> On May 6, 2020, at 1:19 AM, Walter Wu <walter-zh.wu@mediatek.com> wrote:
>
> This patchset improves KASAN reports by making them to have
> call_rcu() call stack information. It is helpful for programmers
> to solve use-after-free or double-free memory issue.
>
> The KASAN report was as follows(cleaned up slightly):
>
> BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in kasan_rcu_reclaim+0x58/0x60
>
> Freed by task 0:
> save_stack+0x24/0x50
> __kasan_slab_free+0x110/0x178
> kasan_slab_free+0x10/0x18
> kfree+0x98/0x270
> kasan_rcu_reclaim+0x1c/0x60
> rcu_core+0x8b4/0x10f8
> rcu_core_si+0xc/0x18
> efi_header_end+0x238/0xa6c
>
> First call_rcu() call stack:
> save_stack+0x24/0x50
> kasan_record_callrcu+0xc8/0xd8
> call_rcu+0x190/0x580
> kasan_rcu_uaf+0x1d8/0x278
>
> Last call_rcu() call stack:
> (stack is not available)
>
>
> Add new CONFIG option to record first and last call_rcu() call stack
> and KASAN report prints two call_rcu() call stack.
>
> This option doesn't increase the cost of memory consumption. It is
> only suitable for generic KASAN.
I don’t understand why this needs to be a Kconfig option at all. If call_rcu() stacks are useful in general, then just always gather those information. How do developers judge if they need to select this option or not?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-06 5:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-06 5:18 [PATCH 0/3] kasan: memorize and print call_rcu stack Walter Wu
2020-05-06 5:53 ` Qian Cai [this message]
2020-05-06 6:23 ` Walter Wu
2020-05-06 9:37 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2020-05-06 12:01 ` Walter Wu
2020-05-06 12:16 ` Dmitry Vyukov
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