The patch titled Subject: kasan: fix quarantine conflicting with init_on_free has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is kasan-fix-quarantine-conflicting-with-init_on_free.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/kasan-fix-quarantine-conflicting-with-init_on_free.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/kasan-fix-quarantine-conflicting-with-init_on_free.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: kasan: fix quarantine conflicting with init_on_free KASAN's quarantine might save its metadata inside freed objects. As this happens after the memory is zeroed by the slab allocator when init_on_free is enabled, the memory coming out of quarantine is not properly zeroed. This causes lib/test_meminit.c tests to fail with Generic KASAN. Zero the metadata when the object is removed from quarantine. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2805da5df4b57138fdacd671f5d227d58950ba54.1640037083.git.andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 6471384af2a6 ("mm: security: introduce init_on_alloc=1 and init_on_free=1 boot options") Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/kasan/quarantine.c | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) --- a/mm/kasan/quarantine.c~kasan-fix-quarantine-conflicting-with-init_on_free +++ a/mm/kasan/quarantine.c @@ -132,12 +132,23 @@ static void *qlink_to_object(struct qlis static void qlink_free(struct qlist_node *qlink, struct kmem_cache *cache) { void *object = qlink_to_object(qlink, cache); + struct kasan_free_meta *meta = kasan_get_free_meta(cache, object); unsigned long flags; if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SLAB)) local_irq_save(flags); /* + * If init_on_free is enabled and KASAN's free metadata is stored in + * the object, zero the metadata. Otherwise, the object's memory will + * not be properly zeroed, as KASAN saves the metadata after the slab + * allocator zeroes the object. + */ + if (slab_want_init_on_free(cache) && + cache->kasan_info.free_meta_offset == 0) + memzero_explicit(meta, sizeof(*meta)); + + /* * As the object now gets freed from the quarantine, assume that its * free track is no longer valid. */ _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx are kasan-fix-quarantine-conflicting-with-init_on_free.patch