From c275c5c6d50a0518cdb0584e85905d10e7cefc6e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Collingbourne Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2021 16:52:30 -0700 Subject: kasan: disable freed user page poisoning with HW tags Poisoning freed pages protects against kernel use-after-free. The likelihood of such a bug involving kernel pages is significantly higher than that for user pages. At the same time, poisoning freed pages can impose a significant performance cost, which cannot always be justified for user pages given the lower probability of finding a bug. Therefore, disable freed user page poisoning when using HW tags. We identify "user" pages via the flag set GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE, which indicates a strong likelihood of not being directly accessible to the kernel. Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/I716846e2de8ef179f44e835770df7e6307be96c9 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210602235230.3928842-5-pcc@google.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon --- include/trace/events/mmflags.h | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/trace/events/mmflags.h') diff --git a/include/trace/events/mmflags.h b/include/trace/events/mmflags.h index 629c7a0eaff2..390270e00a1d 100644 --- a/include/trace/events/mmflags.h +++ b/include/trace/events/mmflags.h @@ -85,6 +85,12 @@ #define IF_HAVE_PG_ARCH_2(flag,string) #endif +#ifdef CONFIG_KASAN_HW_TAGS +#define IF_HAVE_PG_SKIP_KASAN_POISON(flag,string) ,{1UL << flag, string} +#else +#define IF_HAVE_PG_SKIP_KASAN_POISON(flag,string) +#endif + #define __def_pageflag_names \ {1UL << PG_locked, "locked" }, \ {1UL << PG_waiters, "waiters" }, \ @@ -112,7 +118,8 @@ IF_HAVE_PG_UNCACHED(PG_uncached, "uncached" ) \ IF_HAVE_PG_HWPOISON(PG_hwpoison, "hwpoison" ) \ IF_HAVE_PG_IDLE(PG_young, "young" ) \ IF_HAVE_PG_IDLE(PG_idle, "idle" ) \ -IF_HAVE_PG_ARCH_2(PG_arch_2, "arch_2" ) +IF_HAVE_PG_ARCH_2(PG_arch_2, "arch_2" ) \ +IF_HAVE_PG_SKIP_KASAN_POISON(PG_skip_kasan_poison, "skip_kasan_poison") #define show_page_flags(flags) \ (flags) ? __print_flags(flags, "|", \ -- cgit