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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/slab_common.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/slab_common.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c index 5be7825ad3ce..7c8298c17145 100644 --- a/mm/slab_common.c +++ b/mm/slab_common.c @@ -1218,19 +1218,21 @@ size_t ksize(const void *objp) size_t size; /* - * We need to check that the pointed to object is valid, and only then - * unpoison the shadow memory below. We use __kasan_check_read(), to - * generate a more useful report at the time ksize() is called (rather - * than later where behaviour is undefined due to potential - * use-after-free or double-free). + * We need to first check that the pointer to the object is valid, and + * only then unpoison the memory. The report printed from ksize() is + * more useful, then when it's printed later when the behaviour could + * be undefined due to a potential use-after-free or double-free. * - * If the pointed to memory is invalid we return 0, to avoid users of + * We use kasan_check_byte(), which is supported for the hardware + * tag-based KASAN mode, unlike kasan_check_read/write(). + * + * If the pointed to memory is invalid, we return 0 to avoid users of * ksize() writing to and potentially corrupting the memory region. * * We want to perform the check before __ksize(), to avoid potentially * crashing in __ksize() due to accessing invalid metadata. */ - if (unlikely(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(objp)) || !__kasan_check_read(objp, 1)) + if (unlikely(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(objp)) || !kasan_check_byte(objp)) return 0; size = __ksize(objp); |