when the input address is illegal,the corresponding shadow address from kasan_mem_to_shadow may have no mapping in mmu table. Access such shadow address causes kernel oops. Here is a sample about oops on arm64(VA 39bit) with KASAN_SW_TAGS on: [ffffffb80aaaaaaa] pgd=000000005d3ce003, p4d=000000005d3ce003, pud=000000005d3ce003, pmd=0000000000000000 Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000006 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: CPU: 3 PID: 100 Comm: sh Not tainted 6.6.0-rc1-dirty #43 Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) pstate: 80000005 (Nzcv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) pc : __hwasan_load8_noabort+0x5c/0x90 lr : do_ib_ob+0xf4/0x110 ffffffb80aaaaaaa is the shadow address for efffff80aaaaaaaa. The problem is reading invalid shadow in kasan_check_range. The generic kasan also has similar oops. To fix it,check shadow address by reading it with no fault. After this patch,KASAN is able to report invalid memory access for this case. Signed-off-by: Haibo Li <haibo.li@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/kasan/kasan.h | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/kasan/kasan.h b/mm/kasan/kasan.h index f70e3d7a602e..bd30f35e18b2 100644 --- a/mm/kasan/kasan.h +++ b/mm/kasan/kasan.h @@ -304,8 +304,17 @@ static __always_inline bool addr_has_metadata(const void *addr) #ifdef __HAVE_ARCH_SHADOW_MAP return (kasan_mem_to_shadow((void *)addr) != NULL); #else - return (kasan_reset_tag(addr) >= - kasan_shadow_to_mem((void *)KASAN_SHADOW_START)); + u8 *shadow, shadow_val; + + if (kasan_reset_tag(addr) < + kasan_shadow_to_mem((void *)KASAN_SHADOW_START)) + return false; + /* use read with nofault to check whether the shadow is accessible */ + shadow = kasan_mem_to_shadow((void *)addr); + __get_kernel_nofault(&shadow_val, shadow, u8, fault); + return true; +fault: + return false; #endif } -- 2.25.1