kasan, mm: allow cache merging with no metadata
authorAndrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Tue, 22 Dec 2020 20:03:31 +0000 (12:03 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 22 Dec 2020 20:55:09 +0000 (12:55 -0800)
commite86f8b09f215e3755cd2d56930487dec2de02433
tree173bea4212fa9992e00bcf5e5ff178ecae402ed3
parent97593cad003c668e2532cb2939a24a031f8de52d
kasan, mm: allow cache merging with no metadata

The reason cache merging is disabled with KASAN is because KASAN puts its
metadata right after the allocated object. When the merged caches have
slightly different sizes, the metadata ends up in different places, which
KASAN doesn't support.

It might be possible to adjust the metadata allocation algorithm and make
it friendly to the cache merging code. Instead this change takes a simpler
approach and allows merging caches when no metadata is present. Which is
the case for hardware tag-based KASAN with kasan.mode=prod.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/37497e940bfd4b32c0a93a702a9ae4cf061d5392.1606162397.git.andreyknvl@google.com
Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/Ia114847dfb2244f297d2cb82d592bf6a07455dba
Co-developed-by: Vincenzo Frascino <Vincenzo.Frascino@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <Vincenzo.Frascino@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Tested-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Branislav Rankov <Branislav.Rankov@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Evgenii Stepanov <eugenis@google.com>
Cc: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/kasan.h
mm/kasan/common.c
mm/slab_common.c