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Peter Anvin" , Andrey Ryabinin , Alexander Potapenko , Andrey Konovalov , Dmitry Vyukov , Vincenzo Frascino , Andy Lutomirski , Peter Zijlstra From: Maciej Wieczor-Retman Cc: m.wieczorretman@pm.me, Maciej Wieczor-Retman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kasan-dev@googlegroups.com Subject: [PATCH v11 14/15] x86/kasan: Make software tag-based kasan available Message-ID: <2b44780d5f1d5f0bba84904fbf021edc827b4157.1773164688.git.m.wieczorretman@pm.me> In-Reply-To: References: Feedback-ID: 164464600:user:proton X-Pm-Message-ID: 96baa29da28d044d821ea26f15856769d4413009 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" From: Maciej Wieczor-Retman Make CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS available for x86 machines if they have ADDRESS_MASKING enabled (LAM) as that works similarly to Top-Byte Ignore (TBI) that allows the software tag-based mode on arm64 platform. The value for sw_tags KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET was calculated by rearranging the formulas for KASAN_SHADOW_START and KASAN_SHADOW_END from arch/x86/include/asm/kasan.h - the only prerequisites being KASAN_SHADOW_SCALE_SHIFT of 4, and KASAN_SHADOW_END equal to the one from KASAN generic mode. Set scale macro based on KASAN mode: in software tag-based mode 16 bytes of memory map to one shadow byte and 8 in generic mode. Disable CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE and CONFIG_KASAN_STACK when CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS is enabled on x86 until the appropriate compiler support is available. Lock software tag KASAN behind CC_IS_CLANG due to lack of proper support by gcc resulting in kernel booting issues. Signed-off-by: Maciej Wieczor-Retman --- Changelog v11: - Split off the documentation changes. - Rewrite the Kconfig.kasan entry for sw_tags. Changelog v10: - Update Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst with x86 related informations. Changelog v9: - Lock HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_HAS_SW_TAGS behind CC_IS_CLANG due to lack of support from gcc. - Remove pr_info() from KASAN initialization since it's now done by the generic init helper. - Add paragraph to the mm.rst to explain the mutual exclusive nature of the KASAN address ranges. - Use cpu_feature_enabled() instead of boot_cpu_has() in kasan_init_64.c. Changelog v7: - Add a paragraph to the patch message explaining how the various addresses and the KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET were calculated. Changelog v6: - Don't enable KASAN if LAM is not supported. - Move kasan_init_tags() to kasan_init_64.c to not clutter the setup.c file. - Move the #ifdef for the KASAN scale shift here. - Move the gdb code to patch "Use arithmetic shift for shadow computation". - Return "depends on KASAN" line to Kconfig. - Add the defer kasan config option so KASAN can be disabled on hardware that doesn't have LAM. Changelog v4: - Add x86 specific kasan_mem_to_shadow(). - Revert x86 to the older unsigned KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET. Do the same to KASAN_SHADOW_START/END. - Modify scripts/gdb/linux/kasan.py to keep x86 using unsigned offset. - Disable inline and stack support when software tags are enabled on x86. Changelog v3: - Remove runtime_const from previous patch and merge the rest here. - Move scale shift definition back to header file. - Add new kasan offset for software tag based mode. - Fix patch message typo 32 -> 16, and 16 -> 8. - Update lib/Kconfig.kasan with x86 now having software tag-based support. Changelog v2: - Remove KASAN dense code. arch/x86/Kconfig | 4 ++++ arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h | 1 + arch/x86/include/asm/kasan.h | 5 +++++ arch/x86/mm/kasan_init_64.c | 5 +++++ lib/Kconfig.kasan | 4 +++- 5 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index e2df1b147184..f82b629c5791 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ config X86 select ARCH_CLOCKSOURCE_INIT select ARCH_CONFIGURES_CPU_MITIGATIONS select ARCH_CORRECT_STACKTRACE_ON_KRETPROBE + select ARCH_DISABLE_KASAN_INLINE if X86_64 && KASAN_SW_TAGS select ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION if X86_64 && HUGETLB_PAGE && MIGRAT= ION select ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG if X86_64 select ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE if MEMORY_HOTPLUG @@ -196,6 +197,8 @@ config X86 select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL_RELATIVE select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN if X86_64 select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_VMALLOC if X86_64 + select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_SW_TAGS if ADDRESS_MASKING && CC_IS_CLANG + select ARCH_NEEDS_DEFER_KASAN if ADDRESS_MASKING select HAVE_ARCH_KFENCE select HAVE_ARCH_KMSAN if X86_64 select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB @@ -410,6 +413,7 @@ config AUDIT_ARCH config KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET hex depends on KASAN + default 0xeffffc0000000000 if KASAN_SW_TAGS default 0xdffffc0000000000 =20 config HAVE_INTEL_TXT diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/mis= c.h index 4f86c5903e03..9bc1dcb0f8b0 100644 --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ #undef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_LAZY_MMU_MODE #undef CONFIG_KASAN #undef CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC +#undef CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS =20 #define __NO_FORTIFY =20 diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kasan.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kasan.h index 060ef997bfae..f3d08a002aeb 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kasan.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kasan.h @@ -6,7 +6,12 @@ #include #include #define KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET _AC(CONFIG_KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET, UL) + +#ifdef CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS +#define KASAN_SHADOW_SCALE_SHIFT 4 +#else #define KASAN_SHADOW_SCALE_SHIFT 3 +#endif =20 /* * Compiler uses shadow offset assuming that addresses start diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/kasan_init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/kasan_init_64.c index 7f5c11328ec1..8cbb8ec32061 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/kasan_init_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/kasan_init_64.c @@ -465,4 +465,9 @@ void __init kasan_init(void) =20 init_task.kasan_depth =3D 0; kasan_init_generic(); + + if (cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_LAM)) + kasan_init_sw_tags(); + else + pr_info("KernelAddressSanitizer not initialized (sw-tags): hardware does= n't support LAM\n"); } diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.kasan b/lib/Kconfig.kasan index a4bb610a7a6f..4be4e8943bd1 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.kasan +++ b/lib/Kconfig.kasan @@ -112,7 +112,9 @@ config KASAN_SW_TAGS =20 Requires GCC 11+ or Clang. =20 - Supported only on arm64 CPUs and relies on Top Byte Ignore. + Supported on: + arm64: CPUs with Top Byte Ignore + x86: CPUs with Linear Address Masking. =20 Consumes about 1/16th of available memory at kernel start and add an overhead of ~20% for dynamic allocations. --=20 2.53.0