kasan: initialize shadow to TAG_INVALID for SW_TAGS
authorAndrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Fri, 30 Apr 2021 05:59:49 +0000 (22:59 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 30 Apr 2021 18:20:41 +0000 (11:20 -0700)
commita064cb00d359bc464df6fd2ab6dfb8dc4b31e361
tree34223973f338521d23f318e253ec96690d70b7cc
parentbfcfe37136d718f5f5846f51df9ff22d13752a5b
kasan: initialize shadow to TAG_INVALID for SW_TAGS

Currently, KASAN_SW_TAGS uses 0xFF as the default tag value for
unallocated memory.  The underlying idea is that since that memory hasn't
been allocated yet, it's only supposed to be dereferenced through a
pointer with the native 0xFF tag.

While this is a good idea in terms on consistency, practically it doesn't
bring any benefit.  Since the 0xFF pointer tag is a match-all tag, it
doesn't matter what tag the accessed memory has.  No accesses through
0xFF-tagged pointers are considered buggy by KASAN.

This patch changes the default tag value for unallocated memory to 0xFE,
which is the tag KASAN uses for inaccessible memory.  This doesn't affect
accesses through 0xFF-tagged pointer to this memory, but this allows KASAN
to detect wild and large out-of-bounds invalid memory accesses through
otherwise-tagged pointers.

This is a prepatory patch for the next one, which changes the tag-based
KASAN modes to not poison the boot memory.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/c8e93571c18b3528aac5eb33ade213bf133d10ad.1613692950.git.andreyknvl@google.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.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: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Evgenii Stepanov <eugenis@google.com>
Cc: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.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