Re: [PATCH] kasan: Remove kasan_record_aux_stack_noalloc().

[Waiman Long <llong@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/19/24 10:57 AM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> kasan_record_aux_stack_noalloc() was introduced to record a stack trace
> without allocating memory in the process. It has been added to callers
> which were invoked while a raw_spinlock_t was held.
> More and more callers were identified and changed over time. Is it a
> good thing to have this while functions try their best to do a
> locklessly setup? The only downside of having kasan_record_aux_stack()
> not allocate any memory is that we end up without a stacktrace if
> stackdepot runs out of memory and at the same stacktrace was not
> recorded before. Marco Elver said in
> 	https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210913112609.2651084-1-elver@xxxxxxxxxx/
> that this is rare.
>
> Make the kasan_record_aux_stack_noalloc() behaviour default as
> kasan_record_aux_stack().
>
> [bigeasy: Dressed the diff as patch. ]
>
> Reported-by: syzbot+39f85d612b7c20d8db48@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/67275485.050a0220.3c8d68.0a37.GAE@xxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Didn't add a Fixes tag, didn't want to put
>     7cb3007ce2da2 ("kasan: generic: introduce kasan_record_aux_stack_noalloc()")
>
> there.

Right now task_work_add() is the only caller of 
kasan_record_aux_stack(). So it essentially make all its callers use the 
noalloc version of kasan_record_aux_stack().

Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx>

>   include/linux/kasan.h     |  2 --
>   include/linux/task_work.h |  3 ---
>   kernel/irq_work.c         |  2 +-
>   kernel/rcu/tiny.c         |  2 +-
>   kernel/rcu/tree.c         |  4 ++--
>   kernel/sched/core.c       |  2 +-
>   kernel/task_work.c        | 14 +-------------
>   kernel/workqueue.c        |  2 +-
>   mm/kasan/generic.c        | 14 ++------------
>   mm/slub.c                 |  2 +-
>   10 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/kasan.h b/include/linux/kasan.h
> index 00a3bf7c0d8f0..1a623818e8b39 100644
> --- a/include/linux/kasan.h
> +++ b/include/linux/kasan.h
> @@ -488,7 +488,6 @@ void kasan_cache_create(struct kmem_cache *cache, unsigned int *size,
>   void kasan_cache_shrink(struct kmem_cache *cache);
>   void kasan_cache_shutdown(struct kmem_cache *cache);
>   void kasan_record_aux_stack(void *ptr);
> -void kasan_record_aux_stack_noalloc(void *ptr);
>   
>   #else /* CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC */
>   
> @@ -506,7 +505,6 @@ static inline void kasan_cache_create(struct kmem_cache *cache,
>   static inline void kasan_cache_shrink(struct kmem_cache *cache) {}
>   static inline void kasan_cache_shutdown(struct kmem_cache *cache) {}
>   static inline void kasan_record_aux_stack(void *ptr) {}
> -static inline void kasan_record_aux_stack_noalloc(void *ptr) {}
>   
>   #endif /* CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC */
>   
> diff --git a/include/linux/task_work.h b/include/linux/task_work.h
> index 2964171856e00..0646804860ff1 100644
> --- a/include/linux/task_work.h
> +++ b/include/linux/task_work.h
> @@ -19,9 +19,6 @@ enum task_work_notify_mode {
>   	TWA_SIGNAL,
>   	TWA_SIGNAL_NO_IPI,
>   	TWA_NMI_CURRENT,
> -
> -	TWA_FLAGS = 0xff00,
> -	TWAF_NO_ALLOC = 0x0100,
>   };
>   
>   static inline bool task_work_pending(struct task_struct *task)
> diff --git a/kernel/irq_work.c b/kernel/irq_work.c
> index 2f4fb336dda17..73f7e1fd4ab4d 100644
> --- a/kernel/irq_work.c
> +++ b/kernel/irq_work.c
> @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ bool irq_work_queue_on(struct irq_work *work, int cpu)
>   	if (!irq_work_claim(work))
>   		return false;
>   
> -	kasan_record_aux_stack_noalloc(work);
> +	kasan_record_aux_stack(work);
>   
>   	preempt_disable();
>   	if (cpu != smp_processor_id()) {
> diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tiny.c b/kernel/rcu/tiny.c
> index b3b3ce34df631..4b3f319114650 100644
> --- a/kernel/rcu/tiny.c
> +++ b/kernel/rcu/tiny.c
> @@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(poll_state_synchronize_rcu);
>   void kvfree_call_rcu(struct rcu_head *head, void *ptr)
>   {
>   	if (head)
> -		kasan_record_aux_stack_noalloc(ptr);
> +		kasan_record_aux_stack(ptr);
>   
>   	__kvfree_call_rcu(head, ptr);
>   }
> diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> index b1f883fcd9185..7eae9bd818a90 100644
> --- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> @@ -3083,7 +3083,7 @@ __call_rcu_common(struct rcu_head *head, rcu_callback_t func, bool lazy_in)
>   	}
>   	head->func = func;
>   	head->next = NULL;
> -	kasan_record_aux_stack_noalloc(head);
> +	kasan_record_aux_stack(head);
>   	local_irq_save(flags);
>   	rdp = this_cpu_ptr(&rcu_data);
>   	lazy = lazy_in && !rcu_async_should_hurry();
> @@ -3807,7 +3807,7 @@ void kvfree_call_rcu(struct rcu_head *head, void *ptr)
>   		return;
>   	}
>   
> -	kasan_record_aux_stack_noalloc(ptr);
> +	kasan_record_aux_stack(ptr);
>   	success = add_ptr_to_bulk_krc_lock(&krcp, &flags, ptr, !head);
>   	if (!success) {
>   		run_page_cache_worker(krcp);
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> index a1c353a62c568..3717360a940d2 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -10485,7 +10485,7 @@ void task_tick_mm_cid(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *curr)
>   		return;
>   
>   	/* No page allocation under rq lock */
> -	task_work_add(curr, work, TWA_RESUME | TWAF_NO_ALLOC);
> +	task_work_add(curr, work, TWA_RESUME);
>   }
>   
>   void sched_mm_cid_exit_signals(struct task_struct *t)
> diff --git a/kernel/task_work.c b/kernel/task_work.c
> index c969f1f26be58..d1efec571a4a4 100644
> --- a/kernel/task_work.c
> +++ b/kernel/task_work.c
> @@ -55,26 +55,14 @@ int task_work_add(struct task_struct *task, struct callback_head *work,
>   		  enum task_work_notify_mode notify)
>   {
>   	struct callback_head *head;
> -	int flags = notify & TWA_FLAGS;
>   
> -	notify &= ~TWA_FLAGS;
>   	if (notify == TWA_NMI_CURRENT) {
>   		if (WARN_ON_ONCE(task != current))
>   			return -EINVAL;
>   		if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IRQ_WORK))
>   			return -EINVAL;
>   	} else {
> -		/*
> -		 * Record the work call stack in order to print it in KASAN
> -		 * reports.
> -		 *
> -		 * Note that stack allocation can fail if TWAF_NO_ALLOC flag
> -		 * is set and new page is needed to expand the stack buffer.
> -		 */
> -		if (flags & TWAF_NO_ALLOC)
> -			kasan_record_aux_stack_noalloc(work);
> -		else
> -			kasan_record_aux_stack(work);
> +		kasan_record_aux_stack(work);
>   	}
>   
>   	head = READ_ONCE(task->task_works);
> diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
> index 9949ffad8df09..65b8314b2d538 100644
> --- a/kernel/workqueue.c
> +++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
> @@ -2180,7 +2180,7 @@ static void insert_work(struct pool_workqueue *pwq, struct work_struct *work,
>   	debug_work_activate(work);
>   
>   	/* record the work call stack in order to print it in KASAN reports */
> -	kasan_record_aux_stack_noalloc(work);
> +	kasan_record_aux_stack(work);
>   
>   	/* we own @work, set data and link */
>   	set_work_pwq(work, pwq, extra_flags);
> diff --git a/mm/kasan/generic.c b/mm/kasan/generic.c
> index 6310a180278b6..b18b5944997f8 100644
> --- a/mm/kasan/generic.c
> +++ b/mm/kasan/generic.c
> @@ -521,7 +521,7 @@ size_t kasan_metadata_size(struct kmem_cache *cache, bool in_object)
>   			sizeof(struct kasan_free_meta) : 0);
>   }
>   
> -static void __kasan_record_aux_stack(void *addr, depot_flags_t depot_flags)
> +void kasan_record_aux_stack(void *addr)
>   {
>   	struct slab *slab = kasan_addr_to_slab(addr);
>   	struct kmem_cache *cache;
> @@ -538,17 +538,7 @@ static void __kasan_record_aux_stack(void *addr, depot_flags_t depot_flags)
>   		return;
>   
>   	alloc_meta->aux_stack[1] = alloc_meta->aux_stack[0];
> -	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);
> -}
> -
> -void kasan_record_aux_stack_noalloc(void *addr)
> -{
> -	return __kasan_record_aux_stack(addr, 0);
> +	alloc_meta->aux_stack[0] = kasan_save_stack(0, 0);
>   }
>   
>   void kasan_save_alloc_info(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object, gfp_t flags)
> diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
> index 5b832512044e3..b8c4bf3fe0d07 100644
> --- a/mm/slub.c
> +++ b/mm/slub.c
> @@ -2300,7 +2300,7 @@ bool slab_free_hook(struct kmem_cache *s, void *x, bool init,
>   			 * We have to do this manually because the rcu_head is
>   			 * not located inside the object.
>   			 */
> -			kasan_record_aux_stack_noalloc(x);
> +			kasan_record_aux_stack(x);
>   
>   			delayed_free->object = x;
>   			call_rcu(&delayed_free->head, slab_free_after_rcu_debug);