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Peter Anvin" , Jonathan Corbet , Andrey Ryabinin , Alexander Potapenko , Andrey Konovalov , Dmitry Vyukov , Vincenzo Frascino , Andy Lutomirski , Peter Zijlstra , Andrew Morton From: Maciej Wieczor-Retman Cc: m.wieczorretman@pm.me, Maciej Wieczor-Retman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, kasan-dev@googlegroups.com Subject: [PATCH v8 14/14] x86/kasan: Make software tag-based kasan available Message-ID: <5b46822936bf9bf7e5cf5d1b57f936345c45a140.1768233085.git.m.wieczorretman@pm.me> In-Reply-To: References: Feedback-ID: 164464600:user:proton X-Pm-Message-ID: 7114c3fdb473fc3c6e894749edc0df69710932f4 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. Signed-off-by: Maciej Wieczor-Retman --- 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. Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/mm.rst | 6 ++++-- 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 | 6 ++++++ lib/Kconfig.kasan | 3 ++- 6 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/mm.rst b/Documentation/arch/x86/= x86_64/mm.rst index a6cf05d51bd8..ccbdbb4cda36 100644 --- a/Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/mm.rst +++ b/Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/mm.rst @@ -60,7 +60,8 @@ Complete virtual memory map with 4-level page tables ffffe90000000000 | -23 TB | ffffe9ffffffffff | 1 TB | ... unused= hole ffffea0000000000 | -22 TB | ffffeaffffffffff | 1 TB | virtual me= mory map (vmemmap_base) ffffeb0000000000 | -21 TB | ffffebffffffffff | 1 TB | ... unused= hole - ffffec0000000000 | -20 TB | fffffbffffffffff | 16 TB | KASAN shad= ow memory + ffffec0000000000 | -20 TB | fffffbffffffffff | 16 TB | KASAN shad= ow memory (generic mode) + fffff40000000000 | -8 TB | fffffbffffffffff | 8 TB | KASAN shad= ow memory (software tag-based mode) __________________|____________|__________________|_________|___________= _________________________________________________ | | Identical = layout to the 56-bit one from here on: @@ -130,7 +131,8 @@ Complete virtual memory map with 5-level page tables ffd2000000000000 | -11.5 PB | ffd3ffffffffffff | 0.5 PB | ... unused= hole ffd4000000000000 | -11 PB | ffd5ffffffffffff | 0.5 PB | virtual me= mory map (vmemmap_base) ffd6000000000000 | -10.5 PB | ffdeffffffffffff | 2.25 PB | ... unused= hole - ffdf000000000000 | -8.25 PB | fffffbffffffffff | ~8 PB | KASAN shad= ow memory + ffdf000000000000 | -8.25 PB | fffffbffffffffff | ~8 PB | KASAN shad= ow memory (generic mode) + ffeffc0000000000 | -6 PB | fffffbffffffffff | 4 PB | KASAN shad= ow memory (software tag-based mode) __________________|____________|__________________|_________|___________= _________________________________________________ | | Identical = layout to the 47-bit one from here on: diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index 80527299f859..21c71d9e0698 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 + 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 fd855e32c9b9..ba70036c2abd 100644 --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ #undef CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS #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 9b7951a79753..b38a1a83af96 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..3a5577341805 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/kasan_init_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/kasan_init_64.c @@ -465,4 +465,10 @@ void __init kasan_init(void) =20 init_task.kasan_depth =3D 0; kasan_init_generic(); + pr_info("KernelAddressSanitizer initialized\n"); + + if (boot_cpu_has(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..d13ea8da7bfd 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.kasan +++ b/lib/Kconfig.kasan @@ -112,7 +112,8 @@ 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 that support Top Byte Ignore and on x86 CPUs + that support Linear Address Masking. =20 Consumes about 1/16th of available memory at kernel start and add an overhead of ~20% for dynamic allocations. --=20 2.52.0