KASAN does not play well with the page poisoning (CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING). It triggers false positives in the allocation path, BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in memchr_inv+0x2ea/0x330 Read of size 8 at addr ffff88881f800000 by task swapper/0 CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.0.0-rc1+ #54 Call Trace: dump_stack+0xe0/0x19a print_address_description.cold.2+0x9/0x28b kasan_report.cold.3+0x7a/0xb5 __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x19/0x20 memchr_inv+0x2ea/0x330 kernel_poison_pages+0x103/0x3d5 get_page_from_freelist+0x15e7/0x4d90 because KASAN has not yet unpoisoned the shadow page for allocation before it checks memchr_inv() but only found a stale poison pattern. Also, false positives in free path, BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in kernel_poison_pages+0x29e/0x3d5 Write of size 4096 at addr ffff8888112cc000 by task swapper/0/1 CPU: 5 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.0.0-rc1+ #55 Call Trace: dump_stack+0xe0/0x19a print_address_description.cold.2+0x9/0x28b kasan_report.cold.3+0x7a/0xb5 check_memory_region+0x22d/0x250 memset+0x28/0x40 kernel_poison_pages+0x29e/0x3d5 __free_pages_ok+0x75f/0x13e0 due to KASAN adds poisoned redzones around slab objects, but the page poisoning needs to poison the whole page, so simply unpoision the shadow page before running the page poison's memset. Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +- mm/page_poison.c | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index d295c9bc01a8..906250a9b89c 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1945,8 +1945,8 @@ inline void post_alloc_hook(struct page *page, unsigned int order, arch_alloc_page(page, order); kernel_map_pages(page, 1 << order, 1); - kernel_poison_pages(page, 1 << order, 1); kasan_alloc_pages(page, order); + kernel_poison_pages(page, 1 << order, 1); set_page_owner(page, order, gfp_flags); } diff --git a/mm/page_poison.c b/mm/page_poison.c index f0c15e9017c0..e546b70e592a 100644 --- a/mm/page_poison.c +++ b/mm/page_poison.c @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ #include <linux/page_ext.h> #include <linux/poison.h> #include <linux/ratelimit.h> +#include <linux/kasan.h> static bool want_page_poisoning __read_mostly; @@ -40,6 +41,7 @@ static void poison_page(struct page *page) { void *addr = kmap_atomic(page); + kasan_unpoison_shadow(addr, PAGE_SIZE); memset(addr, PAGE_POISON, PAGE_SIZE); kunmap_atomic(addr); } -- 2.17.2 (Apple Git-113)