| Date | Thu, 10 Jul 2014 13:24:17 +0400 | From | Andrey Ryabinin <> | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH RESEND -next 15/21] mm: slub: add kernel address sanitizer hooks to slub allocator |
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On 07/09/14 18:48, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jul 2014, Andrey Ryabinin wrote: > >> With this patch kasan will be able to catch bugs in memory allocated >> by slub. >> Allocated slab page, this whole page marked as unaccessible >> in corresponding shadow memory. >> On allocation of slub object requested allocation size marked as >> accessible, and the rest of the object (including slub's metadata) >> marked as redzone (unaccessible). >> >> We also mark object as accessible if ksize was called for this object. >> There is some places in kernel where ksize function is called to inquire >> size of really allocated area. Such callers could validly access whole >> allocated memory, so it should be marked as accessible by kasan_krealloc call. > > Do you really need to go through all of this? Add the hooks to > kmem_cache_alloc_trace() instead and use the existing instrumentation > that is there for other purposes? >
I could move kasan_kmalloc hooks kmem_cache_alloc_trace(), and I think it will look better. Hovewer I will require two hooks instead of one (for CONFIG_TRACING=y and CONFIG_TRACING=n).
Btw, seems I broke CONFIG_SL[AO]B configurations in this patch by introducing __ksize function which used in krealloc now.
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