On Thu, 14 Sep 2023 16:08:33 +0800 Haibo Li <haibo.li@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > Thanks. > --- 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 > } Are we able to identify a Fixes: target for this? 9d7b7dd946924de43021f57a8bee122ff0744d93 ("kasan: split out print_report from __kasan_report") altered the code but I expect the bug was present before that commit. Seems this bug has been there for over a year. Can you suggest why it has been discovered after such a lengthy time?