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<title>kernel/linux.git/mm/kasan/quarantine.c, branch v5.18</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree (mirror)</subtitle>
<id>https://git.radix-linux.su/kernel/linux.git/atom?h=v5.18</id>
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<updated>2022-04-27T20:28:48+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>kasan: prevent cpu_quarantine corruption when CPU offline and cache shrink occur at same time</title>
<updated>2022-04-27T20:28:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zqiang</name>
<email>qiang1.zhang@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-27T19:41:56+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
kasan_quarantine_remove_cache() is called in kmem_cache_shrink()/
destroy().  The kasan_quarantine_remove_cache() call is protected by
cpuslock in kmem_cache_destroy() to ensure serialization with
kasan_cpu_offline().

However the kasan_quarantine_remove_cache() call is not protected by
cpuslock in kmem_cache_shrink().  When a CPU is going offline and cache
shrink occurs at same time, the cpu_quarantine may be corrupted by
interrupt (per_cpu_remove_cache operation).

So add a cpu_quarantine offline flags check in per_cpu_remove_cache().

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment, per Zqiang]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220414025925.2423818-1-qiang1.zhang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Zqiang &lt;qiang1.zhang@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2022-01-15T18:37:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-15T18:37:06+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
 "146 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: kthread, ia64, scripts,
  ntfs, squashfs, ocfs2, vfs, and mm (slab-generic, slab, kmemleak,
  dax, kasan, debug, pagecache, gup, shmem, frontswap, memremap,
  memcg, selftests, pagemap, dma, vmalloc, memory-failure, hugetlb,
  userfaultfd, vmscan, mempolicy, oom-kill, hugetlbfs, migration, thp,
  ksm, page-poison, percpu, rmap, zswap, zram, cleanups, hmm, and
  damon)"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (146 commits)
  mm/damon: hide kernel pointer from tracepoint event
  mm/damon/vaddr: hide kernel pointer from damon_va_three_regions() failure log
  mm/damon/vaddr: use pr_debug() for damon_va_three_regions() failure logging
  mm/damon/dbgfs: remove an unnecessary variable
  mm/damon: move the implementation of damon_insert_region to damon.h
  mm/damon: add access checking for hugetlb pages
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for schemes statistics
  mm/damon/dbgfs: support all DAMOS stats
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim: document statistics parameters
  mm/damon/reclaim: provide reclamation statistics
  mm/damon/schemes: account how many times quota limit has exceeded
  mm/damon/schemes: account scheme actions that successfully applied
  mm/damon: remove a mistakenly added comment for a future feature
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for kdamond_pid and (mk|rm)_contexts
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: mention tracepoint at the beginning
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: remove redundant information
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for scheme quotas and watermarks
  mm/damon: convert macro functions to static inline functions
  mm/damon: modify damon_rand() macro to static inline function
  mm/damon: move damon_rand() definition into damon.h
  ...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kasan: fix quarantine conflicting with init_on_free</title>
<updated>2022-01-15T14:30:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrey Konovalov</name>
<email>andreyknvl@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-14T22:05:01+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
KASAN's quarantine might save its metadata inside freed objects.  As
this happens after the memory is zeroed by the slab allocator when
init_on_free is enabled, the memory coming out of quarantine is not
properly zeroed.

This causes lib/test_meminit.c tests to fail with Generic KASAN.

Zero the metadata when the object is removed from quarantine.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2805da5df4b57138fdacd671f5d227d58950ba54.1640037083.git.andreyknvl@google.com
Fixes: 6471384af2a6 ("mm: security: introduce init_on_alloc=1 and init_on_free=1 boot options")
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/kasan: Convert to struct folio and struct slab</title>
<updated>2022-01-06T11:26:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-04T13:46:46+00:00</published>
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KASAN accesses some slab related struct page fields so we need to
convert it to struct slab. Some places are a bit simplified thanks to
kasan_addr_to_slab() encapsulating the PageSlab flag check through
virt_to_slab().  When resolving object address to either a real slab or
a large kmalloc, use struct folio as the intermediate type for testing
the slab flag to avoid unnecessary implicit compound_head().

[ vbabka@suse.cz: use struct folio, adjust to differences in previous
  patches ]

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Tested-by: Hyeongogn Yoo &lt;42.hyeyoo@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;kasan-dev@googlegroups.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: fix typos in comments</title>
<updated>2021-05-07T07:26:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-07T01:06:47+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Fix ~94 single-word typos in locking code comments, plus a few
very obvious grammar mistakes.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210322212624.GA1963421@gmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210322205203.GB1959563@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Bhaskar Chowdhury &lt;unixbhaskar@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kasan: prefix global functions with kasan_</title>
<updated>2021-02-24T21:38:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrey Konovalov</name>
<email>andreyknvl@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-24T20:05:05+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Patch series "kasan: HW_TAGS tests support and fixes", v4.

This patchset adds support for running KASAN-KUnit tests with the
hardware tag-based mode and also contains a few fixes.

This patch (of 15):

There's a number of internal KASAN functions that are used across multiple
source code files and therefore aren't marked as static inline.  To avoid
littering the kernel function names list with generic function names,
prefix all such KASAN functions with kasan_.

As a part of this change:

 - Rename internal (un)poison_range() to kasan_(un)poison() (no _range)
   to avoid name collision with a public kasan_unpoison_range().

 - Rename check_memory_region() to kasan_check_range(), as it's a more
   fitting name.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1610733117.git.andreyknvl@google.com
Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/I719cc93483d4ba288a634dba80ee6b7f2809cd26
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/13777aedf8d3ebbf35891136e1f2287e2f34aaba.1610733117.git.andreyknvl@google.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Collingbourne &lt;pcc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Evgenii Stepanov &lt;eugenis@google.com&gt;
Cc: Branislav Rankov &lt;Branislav.Rankov@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Kevin Brodsky &lt;kevin.brodsky@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kasan: sanitize objects when metadata doesn't fit</title>
<updated>2020-12-22T20:55:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrey Konovalov</name>
<email>andreyknvl@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-22T20:03:28+00:00</published>
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KASAN marks caches that are sanitized with the SLAB_KASAN cache flag.
Currently if the metadata that is appended after the object (stores e.g.
stack trace ids) doesn't fit into KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE (can only happen with
SLAB, see the comment in the patch), KASAN turns off sanitization
completely.

With this change sanitization of the object data is always enabled.
However the metadata is only stored when it fits.  Instead of checking for
SLAB_KASAN flag accross the code to find out whether the metadata is
there, use cache-&gt;kasan_info.alloc/free_meta_offset.  As 0 can be a valid
value for free_meta_offset, introduce KASAN_NO_FREE_META as an indicator
that the free metadata is missing.

Without this change all sanitized KASAN objects would be put into
quarantine with generic KASAN.  With this change, only the objects that
have metadata (i.e.  when it fits) are put into quarantine, the rest is
freed right away.

Along the way rework __kasan_cache_create() and add claryfying comments.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/aee34b87a5e4afe586c2ac6a0b32db8dc4dcc2dc.1606162397.git.andreyknvl@google.com
Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/Icd947e2bea054cb5cfbdc6cf6652227d97032dcb
Co-developed-by: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;Vincenzo.Frascino@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;Vincenzo.Frascino@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Branislav Rankov &lt;Branislav.Rankov@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Evgenii Stepanov &lt;eugenis@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kevin Brodsky &lt;kevin.brodsky@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kasan: rename get_alloc/free_info</title>
<updated>2020-12-22T20:55:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrey Konovalov</name>
<email>andreyknvl@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-22T20:02:34+00:00</published>
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Rename get_alloc_info() and get_free_info() to kasan_get_alloc_meta() and
kasan_get_free_meta() to better reflect what those do and avoid confusion
with kasan_set_free_info().

No functional changes.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/27b7c036b754af15a2839e945f6d8bfce32b4c2f.1606162397.git.andreyknvl@google.com
Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/Ib6e4ba61c8b12112b403d3479a9799ac8fff8de1
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Branislav Rankov &lt;Branislav.Rankov@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Evgenii Stepanov &lt;eugenis@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kevin Brodsky &lt;kevin.brodsky@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kasan: simplify quarantine_put call site</title>
<updated>2020-12-22T20:55:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrey Konovalov</name>
<email>andreyknvl@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-22T20:02:31+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Patch series "kasan: boot parameters for hardware tag-based mode", v4.

=== Overview

Hardware tag-based KASAN mode [1] is intended to eventually be used in
production as a security mitigation. Therefore there's a need for finer
control over KASAN features and for an existence of a kill switch.

This patchset adds a few boot parameters for hardware tag-based KASAN that
allow to disable or otherwise control particular KASAN features, as well
as provides some initial optimizations for running KASAN in production.

There's another planned patchset what will further optimize hardware
tag-based KASAN, provide proper benchmarking and tests, and will fully
enable tag-based KASAN for production use.

Hardware tag-based KASAN relies on arm64 Memory Tagging Extension (MTE)
[2] to perform memory and pointer tagging. Please see [3] and [4] for
detailed analysis of how MTE helps to fight memory safety problems.

The features that can be controlled are:

1. Whether KASAN is enabled at all.
2. Whether KASAN collects and saves alloc/free stacks.
3. Whether KASAN panics on a detected bug or not.

The patch titled "kasan: add and integrate kasan boot parameters" of this
series adds a few new boot parameters.

kasan.mode allows to choose one of three main modes:

- kasan.mode=off - KASAN is disabled, no tag checks are performed
- kasan.mode=prod - only essential production features are enabled
- kasan.mode=full - all KASAN features are enabled

The chosen mode provides default control values for the features mentioned
above. However it's also possible to override the default values by
providing:

- kasan.stacktrace=off/on - enable stacks collection
                            (default: on for mode=full, otherwise off)
- kasan.fault=report/panic - only report tag fault or also panic
                             (default: report)

If kasan.mode parameter is not provided, it defaults to full when
CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL is enabled, and to prod otherwise.

It is essential that switching between these modes doesn't require
rebuilding the kernel with different configs, as this is required by
the Android GKI (Generic Kernel Image) initiative.

=== Benchmarks

For now I've only performed a few simple benchmarks such as measuring
kernel boot time and slab memory usage after boot. There's an upcoming
patchset which will optimize KASAN further and include more detailed
benchmarking results.

The benchmarks were performed in QEMU and the results below exclude the
slowdown caused by QEMU memory tagging emulation (as it's different from
the slowdown that will be introduced by hardware and is therefore
irrelevant).

KASAN_HW_TAGS=y + kasan.mode=off introduces no performance or memory
impact compared to KASAN_HW_TAGS=n.

kasan.mode=prod (manually excluding tagging) introduces 3% of performance
and no memory impact (except memory used by hardware to store tags)
compared to kasan.mode=off.

kasan.mode=full has about 40% performance and 30% memory impact over
kasan.mode=prod. Both come from alloc/free stack collection.

=== Notes

This patchset is available here:

https://github.com/xairy/linux/tree/up-boot-mte-v4

This patchset is based on v11 of "kasan: add hardware tag-based mode for
arm64" patchset [1].

For testing in QEMU hardware tag-based KASAN requires:

1. QEMU built from master [6] (use "-machine virt,mte=on -cpu max" arguments
   to run).
2. GCC version 10.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/cover.1606161801.git.andreyknvl@google.com/T/#t
[2] https://community.arm.com/developer/ip-products/processors/b/processors-ip-blog/posts/enhancing-memory-safety
[3] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.09517.pdf
[4] https://github.com/microsoft/MSRC-Security-Research/blob/master/papers/2020/Security%20analysis%20of%20memory%20tagging.pdf
[5] https://source.android.com/devices/architecture/kernel/generic-kernel-image
[6] https://github.com/qemu/qemu

=== Tags

Tested-by: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;

This patch (of 19):

Move get_free_info() call into quarantine_put() to simplify the call site.

No functional changes.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1606162397.git.andreyknvl@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/312d0a3ef92cc6dc4fa5452cbc1714f9393ca239.1606162397.git.andreyknvl@google.com
Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/Iab0f04e7ebf8d83247024b7190c67c3c34c7940f
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Evgenii Stepanov &lt;eugenis@google.com&gt;
Cc: Branislav Rankov &lt;Branislav.Rankov@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Kevin Brodsky &lt;kevin.brodsky@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kasan: drop unnecessary GPL text from comment headers</title>
<updated>2020-12-22T20:55:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrey Konovalov</name>
<email>andreyknvl@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-22T20:00:07+00:00</published>
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Patch series "kasan: add hardware tag-based mode for arm64", v11.

This patchset adds a new hardware tag-based mode to KASAN [1].  The new
mode is similar to the existing software tag-based KASAN, but relies on
arm64 Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) [2] to perform memory and pointer
tagging (instead of shadow memory and compiler instrumentation).

This patchset is co-developed and tested by
Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;.

This patchset is available here:

https://github.com/xairy/linux/tree/up-kasan-mte-v11

For testing in QEMU hardware tag-based KASAN requires:

1. QEMU built from master [4] (use "-machine virt,mte=on -cpu max" arguments
   to run).
2. GCC version 10.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/dev-tools/kasan.html
[2] https://community.arm.com/developer/ip-products/processors/b/processors-ip-blog/posts/enhancing-memory-safety
[3] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux for-next/mte
[4] https://github.com/qemu/qemu

====== Overview

The underlying ideas of the approach used by hardware tag-based KASAN are:

1. By relying on the Top Byte Ignore (TBI) arm64 CPU feature, pointer tags
   are stored in the top byte of each kernel pointer.

2. With the Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) arm64 CPU feature, memory tags
   for kernel memory allocations are stored in a dedicated memory not
   accessible via normal instuctions.

3. On each memory allocation, a random tag is generated, embedded it into
   the returned pointer, and the corresponding memory is tagged with the
   same tag value.

4. With MTE the CPU performs a check on each memory access to make sure
   that the pointer tag matches the memory tag.

5. On a tag mismatch the CPU generates a tag fault, and a KASAN report is
   printed.

Same as other KASAN modes, hardware tag-based KASAN is intended as a
debugging feature at this point.

====== Rationale

There are two main reasons for this new hardware tag-based mode:

1. Previously implemented software tag-based KASAN is being successfully
   used on dogfood testing devices due to its low memory overhead (as
   initially planned). The new hardware mode keeps the same low memory
   overhead, and is expected to have significantly lower performance
   impact, due to the tag checks being performed by the hardware.
   Therefore the new mode can be used as a better alternative in dogfood
   testing for hardware that supports MTE.

2. The new mode lays the groundwork for the planned in-kernel MTE-based
   memory corruption mitigation to be used in production.

====== Technical details

Considering the implementation perspective, hardware tag-based KASAN is
almost identical to the software mode.  The key difference is using MTE
for assigning and checking tags.

Compared to the software mode, the hardware mode uses 4 bits per tag, as
dictated by MTE.  Pointer tags are stored in bits [56:60), the top 4 bits
have the normal value 0xF.  Having less distict tags increases the
probablity of false negatives (from ~1/256 to ~1/16) in certain cases.

Only synchronous exceptions are set up and used by hardware tag-based KASAN.

====== Benchmarks

Note: all measurements have been performed with software emulation of Memory
Tagging Extension, performance numbers for hardware tag-based KASAN on the
actual hardware are expected to be better.

Boot time [1]:
* 2.8 sec for clean kernel
* 5.7 sec for hardware tag-based KASAN
* 11.8 sec for software tag-based KASAN
* 11.6 sec for generic KASAN

Slab memory usage after boot [2]:
* 7.0 kb for clean kernel
* 9.7 kb for hardware tag-based KASAN
* 9.7 kb for software tag-based KASAN
* 41.3 kb for generic KASAN

Measurements have been performed with:
* defconfig-based configs
* Manually built QEMU master
* QEMU arguments: -machine virt,mte=on -cpu max
* CONFIG_KASAN_STACK_ENABLE disabled
* CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE enabled
* clang-10 as the compiler and gcc-10 as the assembler

[1] Time before the ext4 driver is initialized.
[2] Measured as `cat /proc/meminfo | grep Slab`.

====== Notes

The cover letter for software tag-based KASAN patchset can be found here:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0116523cfffa62aeb5aa3b85ce7419f3dae0c1b8

===== Tags

Tested-by: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;

This patch (of 41):

Don't mention "GNU General Public License version 2" text explicitly, as
it's already covered by the SPDX-License-Identifier.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1606161801.git.andreyknvl@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6ea9f5f4aa9dbbffa0d0c0a780b37699a4531034.1606161801.git.andreyknvl@google.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Vincenzo Frascino &lt;vincenzo.frascino@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Evgenii Stepanov &lt;eugenis@google.com&gt;
Cc: Branislav Rankov &lt;Branislav.Rankov@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Kevin Brodsky &lt;kevin.brodsky@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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