linux/mm/kasan
Greg Thelen f9fa1d919c kasan: drain quarantine of memcg slab objects
Per memcg slab accounting and kasan have a problem with kmem_cache
destruction.
 - kmem_cache_create() allocates a kmem_cache, which is used for
   allocations from processes running in root (top) memcg.
 - Processes running in non root memcg and allocating with either
   __GFP_ACCOUNT or from a SLAB_ACCOUNT cache use a per memcg
   kmem_cache.
 - Kasan catches use-after-free by having kfree() and kmem_cache_free()
   defer freeing of objects. Objects are placed in a quarantine.
 - kmem_cache_destroy() destroys root and non root kmem_caches. It takes
   care to drain the quarantine of objects from the root memcg's
   kmem_cache, but ignores objects associated with non root memcg. This
   causes leaks because quarantined per memcg objects refer to per memcg
   kmem cache being destroyed.

To see the problem:

 1) create a slab cache with kmem_cache_create(,,,SLAB_ACCOUNT,)
 2) from non root memcg, allocate and free a few objects from cache
 3) dispose of the cache with kmem_cache_destroy() kmem_cache_destroy()
    will trigger a "Slab cache still has objects" warning indicating
    that the per memcg kmem_cache structure was leaked.

Fix the leak by draining kasan quarantined objects allocated from non
root memcg.

Racing memcg deletion is tricky, but handled.  kmem_cache_destroy() =>
shutdown_memcg_caches() => __shutdown_memcg_cache() => shutdown_cache()
flushes per memcg quarantined objects, even if that memcg has been
rmdir'd and gone through memcg_deactivate_kmem_caches().

This leak only affects destroyed SLAB_ACCOUNT kmem caches when kasan is
enabled.  So I don't think it's worth patching stable kernels.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1482257462-36948-1-git-send-email-gthelen@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-24 17:46:56 -08:00
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kasan_init.c mm/kasan: Switch to using __pa_symbol and lm_alias 2017-01-11 13:56:50 +00:00
kasan.c kasan: drain quarantine of memcg slab objects 2017-02-24 17:46:56 -08:00
kasan.h kasan: support use-after-scope detection 2016-11-30 16:32:52 -08:00
Makefile mm, kasan: switch SLUB to stackdepot, enable memory quarantine for SLUB 2016-07-28 16:07:41 -07:00
quarantine.c kasan: drain quarantine of memcg slab objects 2017-02-24 17:46:56 -08:00
report.c kasan: respect /proc/sys/kernel/traceoff_on_warning 2017-02-03 14:13:19 -08:00