From: Pi-Hsun Shih <pihsun@chromium.org>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>, Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>,
Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>,
open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/swap: Avoid undefined behavior in __swapoffset
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 16:12:00 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANdKZ0fYqvP=QF-f42MNbKnvVzX6GQy+1QsDrdAnxvMcmAq1Tg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190312080746.GF5721@dhcp22.suse.cz>
On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 4:07 PM Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue 12-03-19 15:02:38, Pi-Hsun Shih wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 9:23 PM Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu 07-03-19 20:47:52, Pi-Hsun Shih wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 8:23 PM Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Thu 07-03-19 17:46:50, Pi-Hsun Shih wrote:
> > > > > > Use offsetof to calculate offset of a field to avoid UBSAN warning like:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > ===================================================================
> > > > > > UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in mm/swapfile.c:3010:38
> > > > > > member access within null pointer of type 'union swap_header'
> > > > > > CPU: 6 PID: 1833 Comm: swapon Tainted: G S 4.19.23 #43
> > > > > > Call trace:
> > > > > > dump_backtrace+0x0/0x194
> > > > > > show_stack+0x20/0x2c
> > > > > > __dump_stack+0x20/0x28
> > > > > > dump_stack+0x70/0x94
> > > > > > ubsan_epilogue+0x14/0x44
> > > > > > ubsan_type_mismatch_common+0xf4/0xfc
> > > > > > __ubsan_handle_type_mismatch_v1+0x34/0x54
> > > > > > __se_sys_swapon+0x654/0x1084
> > > > > > __arm64_sys_swapon+0x1c/0x24
> > > > > > el0_svc_common+0xa8/0x150
> > > > > > el0_svc_compat_handler+0x2c/0x38
> > > > > > el0_svc_compat+0x8/0x18
> > > > > > ==================================================================
> > > > >
> > > > > Could you be more specific about what exactly is undefined here and
> > > > > why offsetof is any better. AFAIR it uses the same construct unless a
> > > > > compiler defines a built in.
> > > > >
> > > > > I do not object the change itself because it is cleaner to use the
> > > > > existing helper but I am wondering why this is fixing ubsan. Is ubsan
> > > > > defining the compiler variant and consider it safe?
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > The undefined behavior is from trying to accessing a member of NULL,
> > > > even not using it value but only use the address.
> > >
> > > Hmm, we've been using this trick for ages and I do not remember any
> > > compiler to complain as there is no real access. I am not sure what the
> > > C standard has to tell about that but I presume reasonable compilers
> > > will not abuse the UB here.
> > >
> >
> > Some more testing shows that GCC optimize the
> > ((size_t)&((type*)0)->member) to a constant in the result binary, and
> > never emit any UBSAN checks on the statement.
> > Clang doesn't optimize it to a constant in -O0, optimize it to a
> > constant in -O1 or above, and always emit the
> > __ubsan_handle_type_mismatch check when "-fsanitize=undefined" is
> > given.
> > So this UBSAN warning only happens when kernel is compiled by clang, not GCC.
> >
> > From what I've found, it's a UB from C standard view point
> > (https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2015/04/20/null-pointer-dereferencing-causes-undefined-behavior),
> > but I agree that probably no reasonable compilers would abuse the UB
> > here.
>
> I really do not want to go and lawyering about the standard here but
> getting an address of an offset based on NULL ptr is not really
> dereferencing of a NULL ptr. At least this was not the case for ages
> and no compiler can afford to change it because there is quite a lot of
> userspace to rely on this construct.
>
> But as I've said using offseoff is nicer so I completely support a patch
> that get's read of a custom redefinition of it or open code directly.
> But calling it an UB is a bit of stretch.
Ok I'll send a v2 with a better commit title / message.
> --
> Michal Hocko
> SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-12 8:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-07 9:46 [PATCH] mm/swap: Avoid undefined behavior in __swapoffset Pi-Hsun Shih
2019-03-07 12:23 ` Michal Hocko
2019-03-07 12:47 ` Pi-Hsun Shih
2019-03-07 13:23 ` Michal Hocko
2019-03-12 7:02 ` Pi-Hsun Shih
2019-03-12 8:07 ` Michal Hocko
2019-03-12 8:12 ` Pi-Hsun Shih [this message]
2019-03-12 8:18 ` [PATCH v2] mm/swap: Use offsetof instead of custom __swapoffset macro Pi-Hsun Shih
2019-03-12 8:26 ` Michal Hocko
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