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SubjectRe: Issue with kfence and kmemleak
On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 07:47:00PM +0100, Marco Elver wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 06:19PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 06:30:00PM +0100, Marco Elver wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 04:42PM +0000, Luis Henriques wrote:
> > > > This is probably a known issue, but just in case: looks like it's not
> > > > possible to use kmemleak when kfence is enabled:
> > > >
> > > > [ 0.272136] kmemleak: Cannot insert 0xffff888236e02f00 into the object search tree (overlaps existing)
> > > > [ 0.272136] CPU: 0 PID: 8 Comm: kthreadd Not tainted 5.12.0-rc3+ #92
> > > > [ 0.272136] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a-rebuilt.opensuse.org 04/01/2014
> > > > [ 0.272136] Call Trace:
> > > > [ 0.272136] dump_stack+0x6d/0x89
> > > > [ 0.272136] create_object.isra.0.cold+0x40/0x62
> > > > [ 0.272136] ? process_one_work+0x5a0/0x5a0
> > > > [ 0.272136] ? process_one_work+0x5a0/0x5a0
> > > > [ 0.272136] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x110/0x2f0
> > > > [ 0.272136] ? process_one_work+0x5a0/0x5a0
> > > > [ 0.272136] kthread+0x3f/0x150
> > > > [ 0.272136] ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0xd4/0x170
> > > > [ 0.272136] ? __kthread_bind_mask+0x60/0x60
> > > > [ 0.272136] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
> > > > [ 0.272136] kmemleak: Kernel memory leak detector disabled
> > > > [ 0.272136] kmemleak: Object 0xffff888236e00000 (size 2097152):
> > > > [ 0.272136] kmemleak: comm "swapper", pid 0, jiffies 4294892296
> > > > [ 0.272136] kmemleak: min_count = 0
> > > > [ 0.272136] kmemleak: count = 0
> > > > [ 0.272136] kmemleak: flags = 0x1
> > > > [ 0.272136] kmemleak: checksum = 0
> > > > [ 0.272136] kmemleak: backtrace:
> > > > [ 0.272136] memblock_alloc_internal+0x6d/0xb0
> > > > [ 0.272136] memblock_alloc_try_nid+0x6c/0x8a
> > > > [ 0.272136] kfence_alloc_pool+0x26/0x3f
> > > > [ 0.272136] start_kernel+0x242/0x548
> > > > [ 0.272136] secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xb0/0xbb
> > > >
> > > > I've tried the hack below but it didn't really helped. Obviously I don't
> > > > really understand what's going on ;-) But I think the reason for this
> > > > patch not working as (I) expected is because kfence is initialised
> > > > *before* kmemleak.
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/mm/kfence/core.c b/mm/kfence/core.c
> > > > index 3b8ec938470a..b4ffd7695268 100644
> > > > --- a/mm/kfence/core.c
> > > > +++ b/mm/kfence/core.c
> > > > @@ -631,6 +631,9 @@ void __init kfence_alloc_pool(void)
> > > >
> > > > if (!__kfence_pool)
> > > > pr_err("failed to allocate pool\n");
> > > > + kmemleak_no_scan(__kfence_pool);
> > > > }
> > >
> > > Can you try the below patch?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > -- Marco
> > >
> > > ------ >8 ------
> > >
> > > diff --git a/mm/kfence/core.c b/mm/kfence/core.c
> > > index f7106f28443d..5891019721f6 100644
> > > --- a/mm/kfence/core.c
> > > +++ b/mm/kfence/core.c
> > > @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
> > > #include <linux/debugfs.h>
> > > #include <linux/kcsan-checks.h>
> > > #include <linux/kfence.h>
> > > +#include <linux/kmemleak.h>
> > > #include <linux/list.h>
> > > #include <linux/lockdep.h>
> > > #include <linux/memblock.h>
> > > @@ -481,6 +482,13 @@ static bool __init kfence_init_pool(void)
> > > addr += 2 * PAGE_SIZE;
> > > }
> > >
> > > + /*
> > > + * The pool is live and will never be deallocated from this point on;
> > > + * tell kmemleak this is now free memory, so that later allocations can
> > > + * correctly be tracked.
> > > + */
> > > + kmemleak_free_part_phys(__pa(__kfence_pool), KFENCE_POOL_SIZE);
> >
> > I presume this pool does not refer any objects that are only tracked
> > through pool pointers.
>
> No, at this point this memory should not have been touched by anything.
>
> > kmemleak_free() (or *_free_part) should work, no need for the _phys
> > variant (which converts it back with __va).
>
> Will fix.
>
> > Since we normally use kmemleak_ignore() (or no_scan) for objects we
> > don't care about, I'd expand the comment that this object needs to be
> > removed from the kmemleak object tree as it will overlap with subsequent
> > allocations handled by kfence which return pointers within this range.
>
> One thing I've just run into: "BUG: KFENCE: out-of-bounds read in
> scan_block+0x6b/0x170 mm/kmemleak.c:1244"

FWIW, I just saw this as well. It doesn't happen every time, but yeah I
missed it in my initial testing.

Cheers,
--
Luís

>
> Probably because kmemleak is passed the rounded size for the size-class,
> and not the real allocation size. Can this be fixed with
> kmemleak_ignore() only called on the KFENCE guard pages?
>
> I'd like kmemleak to scan the valid portion of an object allocated
> through KFENCE, but no further than that.
>
> Or do we need to fix the size if it's a kfence object:
>
> diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c
> index c0014d3b91c1..fe6e3ae8e8c6 100644
> --- a/mm/kmemleak.c
> +++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
> @@ -97,6 +97,7 @@
> #include <linux/atomic.h>
>
> #include <linux/kasan.h>
> +#include <linux/kfence.h>
> #include <linux/kmemleak.h>
> #include <linux/memory_hotplug.h>
>
> @@ -589,7 +590,7 @@ static struct kmemleak_object *create_object(unsigned long ptr, size_t size,
> atomic_set(&object->use_count, 1);
> object->flags = OBJECT_ALLOCATED;
> object->pointer = ptr;
> - object->size = size;
> + object->size = kfence_ksize((void *)ptr) ?: size;
> object->excess_ref = 0;
> object->min_count = min_count;
> object->count = 0; /* white color initially */
>
>
> The alternative is to call kfence_ksize() in slab_post_alloc_hook() when
> calling kmemleak_alloc.
>
> Do you have a preference?
>
> Thanks,
> -- Marco

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