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Jann Horn b8c8ba73c6 slub: Introduce CONFIG_SLUB_RCU_DEBUG
Currently, KASAN is unable to catch use-after-free in SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU
slabs because use-after-free is allowed within the RCU grace period by
design.

Add a SLUB debugging feature which RCU-delays every individual
kmem_cache_free() before either actually freeing the object or handing it
off to KASAN, and change KASAN to poison freed objects as normal when this
option is enabled.

For now I've configured Kconfig.debug to default-enable this feature in the
KASAN GENERIC and SW_TAGS modes; I'm not enabling it by default in HW_TAGS
mode because I'm not sure if it might have unwanted performance degradation
effects there.

Note that this is mostly useful with KASAN in the quarantine-based GENERIC
mode; SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU slabs are basically always also slabs with a
->ctor, and KASAN's assign_tag() currently has to assign fixed tags for
those, reducing the effectiveness of SW_TAGS/HW_TAGS mode.
(A possible future extension of this work would be to also let SLUB call
the ->ctor() on every allocation instead of only when the slab page is
allocated; then tag-based modes would be able to assign new tags on every
reallocation.)

Tested-by: syzbot+263726e59eab6b442723@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> #slab
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
2024-08-27 14:12:51 +02:00
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.