[mm,v5,22/39] kasan, fork: reset pointer tags of vmapped stacks

Commit Message

[e-mail] Dec. 30, 2021, 7:14 p.m. UTC

From: Andrey Konovalov <[e-mail]>

Once tag-based KASAN modes start tagging vmalloc() allocations,
kernel stacks start getting tagged if CONFIG_VMAP_STACK is enabled.

Reset the tag of kernel stack pointers after allocation in
alloc_thread_stack_node().

For SW_TAGS KASAN, when CONFIG_KASAN_STACK is enabled, the
instrumentation can't handle the SP register being tagged.

For HW_TAGS KASAN, there's no instrumentation-related issues. However,
the impact of having a tagged SP register needs to be properly evaluated,
so keep it non-tagged for now.

Note, that the memory for the stack allocation still gets tagged to
catch vmalloc-into-stack out-of-bounds accesses.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <[e-mail]>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko <[e-mail]>

---

Changes v2->v3:
- Update patch description.
---
 kernel/fork.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Patch

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 40f7a6c2a710..5fdb74c7db83 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -254,6 +254,7 @@  static unsigned long *alloc_thread_stack_node(struct task_struct *tsk, int node)
 	 * so cache the vm_struct.
 	 */
 	if (stack) {
+		stack = kasan_reset_tag(stack);
 		tsk->stack_vm_area = find_vm_area(stack);
 		tsk->stack = stack;
 	}