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McKenney" , Joel Fernandes , Josh Triplett , Boqun Feng , Uladzislau Rezki , Steven Rostedt , Mathieu Desnoyers , Lai Jiangshan , Zqiang , Dmitry Vyukov , rcu@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jann Horn X-Mailer: b4 0.15-dev X-Developer-Signature: v=1; a=ed25519-sha256; t=1774388116; l=1651; i=jannh@google.com; s=20240730; h=from:subject:message-id; bh=usnnnH7wUGYWY5NIsmoimFYx19G6HqPPrRI2oZAKt1Q=; b=SgmquGvg0X9VR0OP0g3btEDHfyjT6PMsoHAYVyfCmCV0ATxqjDCX7hohdeoRiLQJIAjY7BLQY dwd1J12BZ0kD7ik8LI0ZUha0325jzs7B3OE7eJaqSFXoG05/MNUX12w X-Developer-Key: i=jannh@google.com; a=ed25519; pk=AljNtGOzXeF6khBXDJVVvwSEkVDGnnZZYqfWhP1V+C8= Disable CONFIG_KVFREE_RCU_BATCHED in CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD builds so that kernel fuzzers have an easier time finding use-after-free involving kfree_rcu(). The intent behind CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD is that RCU should invoke callbacks and free objects as soon as possible (at a large performance cost) so that kernel fuzzers and such have an easier time detecting use-after-free bugs in objects with RCU lifetime. CONFIG_KVFREE_RCU_BATCHED is a performance optimization that queues RCU-freed objects in ways that CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD can't expedite; for example, the following testcase doesn't trigger a KASAN splat when CONFIG_KVFREE_RCU_BATCHED is enabled: ``` struct foo_struct { struct rcu_head rcu; int a; }; struct foo_struct *foo =3D kmalloc(sizeof(*foo), GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL | __GFP_ZERO); pr_info("%s: calling kfree_rcu()\n", __func__); kfree_rcu(foo, rcu); msleep(10); pr_info("%s: start UAF access\n", __func__); READ_ONCE(foo->a); pr_info("%s: end UAF access\n", __func__); ``` Signed-off-by: Jann Horn Acked-by: David Rientjes Acked-by: Harry Yoo (Oracle) Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes --- mm/Kconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig index ebd8ea353687..67a72fe89186 100644 --- a/mm/Kconfig +++ b/mm/Kconfig @@ -172,6 +172,7 @@ config SLUB config KVFREE_RCU_BATCHED def_bool y depends on !SLUB_TINY && !TINY_RCU + depends on !RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD =20 config SLUB_TINY bool "Configure for minimal memory footprint" --- base-commit: b29fb8829bff243512bb8c8908fd39406f9fd4c3 change-id: 20260324-kasan-kfree-rcu-4e7f490237ef -- =20 Jann Horn