Re: [RFC PATCH] stackdepot: use variable size records for non-evictable entries

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On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 at 16:53, Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> And on top of this we can make KASAN generic happier again:
>
> Objections?

Not doing refcounting/aux locking for generic KASAN makes sense to me.

> ------ >8 ------
>
> From: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2024 12:11:36 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH RFC] kasan: revert eviction of stack traces in generic mode
>
> This partially reverts commits cc478e0b6bdf, 63b85ac56a64, 08d7c94d9635,
> a414d4286f34, and 773688a6cb24 to make use of variable-sized stack depot
> records, since eviction of stack entries from stack depot forces fixed-
> sized stack records. Care was taken to retain the code cleanups by the
> above commits.
>
> Eviction was added to generic KASAN as a response to alleviating the
> additional memory usage from fixed-sized stack records, but this still
> uses more memory than previously.
>
> With the re-introduction of variable-sized records for stack depot, we
> can just switch back to non-evictable stack records again, and return
> back to the previous performance and memory usage baseline.
>
> Before (observed after a KASAN kernel boot):
>
>   pools: 597
>   allocations: 29657
>   frees: 6425
>   in_use: 23232
>   freelist_size: 3493
>
> After:
>
>   pools: 315
>   allocations: 28964
>   frees: 0
>   in_use: 28964
>   freelist_size: 0
>
> As can be seen from the number of "frees", with a generic KASAN config,
> evictions are no longer used but due to using variable-sized records, I
> observe a reduction of 282 stack depot pools (saving 4512 KiB).
>
> Fixes: cc478e0b6bdf ("kasan: avoid resetting aux_lock")
> Fixes: 63b85ac56a64 ("kasan: stop leaking stack trace handles")
> Fixes: 08d7c94d9635 ("kasan: memset free track in qlink_free")
> Fixes: a414d4286f34 ("kasan: handle concurrent kasan_record_aux_stack calls")
> Fixes: 773688a6cb24 ("kasan: use stack_depot_put for Generic mode")
> Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  mm/kasan/common.c  |  3 +--
>  mm/kasan/generic.c | 54 ++++++----------------------------------------
>  mm/kasan/kasan.h   |  8 -------
>  3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/kasan/common.c b/mm/kasan/common.c
> index 610efae91220..ad32803e34e9 100644
> --- a/mm/kasan/common.c
> +++ b/mm/kasan/common.c
> @@ -65,8 +65,7 @@ void kasan_save_track(struct kasan_track *track, gfp_t flags)
>  {
>         depot_stack_handle_t stack;
>
> -       stack = kasan_save_stack(flags,
> -                       STACK_DEPOT_FLAG_CAN_ALLOC | STACK_DEPOT_FLAG_GET);
> +       stack = kasan_save_stack(flags, STACK_DEPOT_FLAG_CAN_ALLOC);
>         kasan_set_track(track, stack);
>  }
>
> diff --git a/mm/kasan/generic.c b/mm/kasan/generic.c
> index df6627f62402..8bfb52b28c22 100644
> --- a/mm/kasan/generic.c
> +++ b/mm/kasan/generic.c
> @@ -485,16 +485,6 @@ void kasan_init_object_meta(struct kmem_cache *cache, const void *object)
>         if (alloc_meta) {
>                 /* Zero out alloc meta to mark it as invalid. */
>                 __memset(alloc_meta, 0, sizeof(*alloc_meta));
> -
> -               /*
> -                * Prepare the lock for saving auxiliary stack traces.
> -                * Temporarily disable KASAN bug reporting to allow instrumented
> -                * raw_spin_lock_init to access aux_lock, which resides inside
> -                * of a redzone.
> -                */
> -               kasan_disable_current();
> -               raw_spin_lock_init(&alloc_meta->aux_lock);
> -               kasan_enable_current();
>         }
>
>         /*
> @@ -506,18 +496,8 @@ void kasan_init_object_meta(struct kmem_cache *cache, const void *object)
>
>  static void release_alloc_meta(struct kasan_alloc_meta *meta)
>  {
> -       /* Evict the stack traces from stack depot. */
> -       stack_depot_put(meta->alloc_track.stack);
> -       stack_depot_put(meta->aux_stack[0]);
> -       stack_depot_put(meta->aux_stack[1]);
> -
> -       /*
> -        * Zero out alloc meta to mark it as invalid but keep aux_lock
> -        * initialized to avoid having to reinitialize it when another object
> -        * is allocated in the same slot.
> -        */
> -       __memset(&meta->alloc_track, 0, sizeof(meta->alloc_track));
> -       __memset(meta->aux_stack, 0, sizeof(meta->aux_stack));
> +       /* Zero out alloc meta to mark it as invalid. */
> +       __memset(meta, 0, sizeof(*meta));
>  }
>
>  static void release_free_meta(const void *object, struct kasan_free_meta *meta)
> @@ -526,9 +506,6 @@ static void release_free_meta(const void *object, struct kasan_free_meta *meta)
>         if (*(u8 *)kasan_mem_to_shadow(object) != KASAN_SLAB_FREE_META)
>                 return;
>
> -       /* Evict the stack trace from the stack depot. */
> -       stack_depot_put(meta->free_track.stack);
> -
>         /* Mark free meta as invalid. */
>         *(u8 *)kasan_mem_to_shadow(object) = KASAN_SLAB_FREE;
>  }
> @@ -571,8 +548,6 @@ static void __kasan_record_aux_stack(void *addr, depot_flags_t depot_flags)
>         struct kmem_cache *cache;
>         struct kasan_alloc_meta *alloc_meta;
>         void *object;
> -       depot_stack_handle_t new_handle, old_handle;
> -       unsigned long flags;
>
>         if (is_kfence_address(addr) || !slab)
>                 return;
> @@ -583,33 +558,18 @@ static void __kasan_record_aux_stack(void *addr, depot_flags_t depot_flags)
>         if (!alloc_meta)
>                 return;
>
> -       new_handle = kasan_save_stack(0, depot_flags);
> -
> -       /*
> -        * Temporarily disable KASAN bug reporting to allow instrumented
> -        * spinlock functions to access aux_lock, which resides inside of a
> -        * redzone.
> -        */
> -       kasan_disable_current();
> -       raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&alloc_meta->aux_lock, flags);
> -       old_handle = alloc_meta->aux_stack[1];
>         alloc_meta->aux_stack[1] = alloc_meta->aux_stack[0];
> -       alloc_meta->aux_stack[0] = new_handle;
> -       raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&alloc_meta->aux_lock, flags);
> -       kasan_enable_current();
> -
> -       stack_depot_put(old_handle);
> +       alloc_meta->aux_stack[0] = kasan_save_stack(0, depot_flags);
>  }
>
>  void kasan_record_aux_stack(void *addr)
>  {
> -       return __kasan_record_aux_stack(addr,
> -                       STACK_DEPOT_FLAG_CAN_ALLOC | STACK_DEPOT_FLAG_GET);
> +       return __kasan_record_aux_stack(addr, STACK_DEPOT_FLAG_CAN_ALLOC);
>  }
>
>  void kasan_record_aux_stack_noalloc(void *addr)
>  {
> -       return __kasan_record_aux_stack(addr, STACK_DEPOT_FLAG_GET);
> +       return __kasan_record_aux_stack(addr, 0);
>  }
>
>  void kasan_save_alloc_info(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object, gfp_t flags)
> @@ -620,7 +580,7 @@ void kasan_save_alloc_info(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object, gfp_t flags)
>         if (!alloc_meta)
>                 return;
>
> -       /* Evict previous stack traces (might exist for krealloc or mempool). */
> +       /* Invalidate previous stack traces (might exist for krealloc or mempool). */
>         release_alloc_meta(alloc_meta);
>
>         kasan_save_track(&alloc_meta->alloc_track, flags);
> @@ -634,7 +594,7 @@ void kasan_save_free_info(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object)
>         if (!free_meta)
>                 return;
>
> -       /* Evict previous stack trace (might exist for mempool). */
> +       /* Invalidate previous stack trace (might exist for mempool). */
>         release_free_meta(object, free_meta);
>
>         kasan_save_track(&free_meta->free_track, 0);
> diff --git a/mm/kasan/kasan.h b/mm/kasan/kasan.h
> index d0f172f2b978..216ae0ef1e4b 100644
> --- a/mm/kasan/kasan.h
> +++ b/mm/kasan/kasan.h
> @@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
>  #include <linux/kasan.h>
>  #include <linux/kasan-tags.h>
>  #include <linux/kfence.h>
> -#include <linux/spinlock.h>
>  #include <linux/stackdepot.h>
>
>  #if defined(CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS) || defined(CONFIG_KASAN_HW_TAGS)
> @@ -265,13 +264,6 @@ struct kasan_global {
>  struct kasan_alloc_meta {
>         struct kasan_track alloc_track;
>         /* Free track is stored in kasan_free_meta. */
> -       /*
> -        * aux_lock protects aux_stack from accesses from concurrent
> -        * kasan_record_aux_stack calls. It is a raw spinlock to avoid sleeping
> -        * on RT kernels, as kasan_record_aux_stack_noalloc can be called from
> -        * non-sleepable contexts.
> -        */
> -       raw_spinlock_t aux_lock;
>         depot_stack_handle_t aux_stack[2];
>  };
>
> --
> 2.43.0.429.g432eaa2c6b-goog
>




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