Re: [PATCH 1/9] kasan: unify static kasan_flag_enabled across modes

[Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM Christophe Leroy
<christophe.le...@csgroup.eu> wrote:
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>
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> Le 25/06/2025 à 11:52, Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov a écrit :
> > Historically the fast-path static key `kasan_flag_enabled` existed
> > only for `CONFIG_KASAN_HW_TAGS`. Generic and SW_TAGS either relied on
> > `kasan_arch_is_ready()` or evaluated KASAN checks unconditionally.
> > As a result every architecture had to toggle a private flag
> > in its `kasan_init()`.
> >
> > This patch turns the flag into a single global runtime predicate that
> > is built for every `CONFIG_KASAN` mode and adds a helper that flips
> > the key once KASAN is ready.
>
> Shouldn't kasan_init_generic() also perform the following line to reduce
> even more code duplication between architectures ?
>
>         init_task.kasan_depth = 0;

I've tried to introduce a new function kasan_mark_ready() to gather
all arch duplicated code in one place:

In mm/kasan/common.c:

void __init kasan_mark_ready(void)
{
        /* Enable error reporting */
        init_task.kasan_depth = 0;
        /* Mark KASAN as ready */
        static_branch_enable(&kasan_flag_enabled);
}

So we could've called it
in mm/kasan/generic.c:
void __init kasan_init_generic(void)
{
        kasan_mark_ready();
        pr_info("KernelAddressSanitizer initialized (generic)\n");
}

in mm/kasan/sw_tags.c:
void __init kasan_init_sw_tags(void)
{
...
        kasan_mark_ready();
        pr_info("KernelAddressSanitizer initialized ..");
}

in mm/kasan/hw_tags.c:
void __init kasan_init_hw_tags(void)
{
...
        kasan_mark_ready();
        pr_info("KernelAddressSanitizer initialized ..");
}

But it works only for CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC mode,
when arch code calls kasan_init(), for example, arm64:

void __init kasan_init(void)
{
        kasan_init_shadow();
        kasan_init_generic();
}

And for HW_TAGS, SW_TAGS it won't work.
Fails during compiling:
mm/kasan/common.c:45:12: error: no member named 'kasan_depth' in
'struct task_struct'
   45 |         init_task.kasan_depth = 0;

because kasan_init_sw_tags(), kasan_init_hw_tags() are called
once on CPU boot. For arm64, where these KASAN modes are supported,
both functions are called in smp_prepare_boot_cpu().

So I guess, every arch kasan_init() has to set in kasan_init()
       init_task.kasan_depth = 0;
to enable error messages before switching KASAN readiness
via enabling kasan_flag_enabled key.

>
> Christophe
>