On 01/30/2015 02:13 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2015 18:12:01 +0300 Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabi...@samsung.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> This feature let us to detect accesses out of bounds
>> of global variables.
> 
> global variables *within modules*, I think?  More specificity needed here.

Within modules and within kernel image. Handling modules just the most
tricky part of this.

> 
>> The idea of this is simple. Compiler increases each global variable
>> by redzone size and add constructors invoking __asan_register_globals()
>> function. Information about global variable (address, size,
>> size with redzone ...) passed to __asan_register_globals() so we could
>> poison variable's redzone.
>>
>> This patch also forces module_alloc() to return 8*PAGE_SIZE aligned
>> address making shadow memory handling ( 
>> kasan_module_alloc()/kasan_module_free() )
>> more simple. Such alignment guarantees that each shadow page backing
>> modules address space correspond to only one module_alloc() allocation.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> +int kasan_module_alloc(void *addr, size_t size)
>> +{
>> +
>> +    size_t shadow_size = round_up(size >> KASAN_SHADOW_SCALE_SHIFT,
>> +                            PAGE_SIZE);
>> +    unsigned long shadow_start = kasan_mem_to_shadow((unsigned long)addr);
>> +    void *ret;
> 
> Like this:
> 
>       size_t shadow_size;
>       unsigned long shadow_start;
>       void *ret;
> 
>       shadow_size = round_up(size >> KASAN_SHADOW_SCALE_SHIFT, PAGE_SIZE);
>       shadow_start = kasan_mem_to_shadow((unsigned long)addr);
> 
> it's much easier to read and avoids the 80-column trickery.
> 
> I do suspect that
> 
>       void *kasan_mem_to_shadow(const void *addr);
> 
> would clean up lots and lots of code.
> 

Agreed.

>> +    if (WARN_ON(!PAGE_ALIGNED(shadow_start)))
>> +            return -EINVAL;
>> +
>> +    ret = __vmalloc_node_range(shadow_size, 1, shadow_start,
>> +                    shadow_start + shadow_size,
>> +                    GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_ZERO,
>> +                    PAGE_KERNEL, VM_NO_GUARD, NUMA_NO_NODE,
>> +                    __builtin_return_address(0));
>> +    return ret ? 0 : -ENOMEM;
>> +}
>> +
>>
>> ...
>>
>> +struct kasan_global {
>> +    const void *beg;                /* Address of the beginning of the 
>> global variable. */
>> +    size_t size;                    /* Size of the global variable. */
>> +    size_t size_with_redzone;       /* Size of the variable + size of the 
>> red zone. 32 bytes aligned */
>> +    const void *name;
>> +    const void *module_name;        /* Name of the module where the global 
>> variable is declared. */
>> +    unsigned long has_dynamic_init; /* This needed for C++ */
> 
> This can be removed?
> 

No, compiler dictates layout of this struct. That probably deserves a comment.

>> +#if KASAN_ABI_VERSION >= 4
>> +    struct kasan_source_location *location;
>> +#endif
>> +};
>>
>> ...
>>
> 
> 

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