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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 10:41:32 +0100
From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To: lijiazi <jqqlijiazi@...il.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>, Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>,
Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@...il.com>, "Jiazi.Li" <jiazi.li@...nssion.com>,
linux-mm@...ck.org, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/slab: always use cache from obj
On 2/15/23 06:49, lijiazi wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 11:33:21AM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>> On 2/14/23 11:19, Jiazi.Li wrote:
>> > If free obj to a wrong cache, in addition random, different offset
>> > and object_size will also cause problems:
>> > 1. The offset of a cache with a ctor is not zero, free an object from
>> > this cache to cache with offset zero, will write next freepointer to
>> > wrong location, resulting in confusion of freelist.
>>
>> Kernels hardened against freelist corruption will enable
>> CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED, so that's already covered, no?
>>
> Yes, HARDENED already covered.
>> > 2. If wrong cache want init on free, and cache->object_size is large
>> > than obj size, which may lead to overwrite issue.
>>
>> In general, being defensive against usage errors is part of either hardening
>> or debugging, which is what the existing code takes into account.
>>
> My consideration is for the wrong cache problem on version without
> HARDENED or debugging, it is likely to cause kernel panic, and such
> problem is difficult to analyze on non-debug version.
> When reproducing this problem on debug version, it will not cause kernel
> panic, but only print the WARN log, then use correct cache to free obj.
> Because we want to reproduce kernel panic problem, so may ignore WARN
> log and think that can not reproduce problem on debug version.
If you need the panic in order to e.g. capture a crash dump, you could
enable slab debugging and boot with panic_on_warn to make the WARN result in
panic.
> Thanks for your reply, I will enable CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED on
> non-debug version later.
>> > Compared with adding a lot of if-else, it may be better to use obj's
>> > cache directly.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Jiazi.Li <jiazi.li@...nssion.com>
>> > ---
>> > mm/slab.h | 4 ----
>> > 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/mm/slab.h b/mm/slab.h
>> > index 63fb4c00d529..ed39b2e4f27b 100644
>> > --- a/mm/slab.h
>> > +++ b/mm/slab.h
>> > @@ -670,10 +670,6 @@ static inline struct kmem_cache *cache_from_obj(struct kmem_cache *s, void *x)
>> > {
>> > struct kmem_cache *cachep;
>> >
>> > - if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED) &&
>> > - !kmem_cache_debug_flags(s, SLAB_CONSISTENCY_CHECKS))
>> > - return s;
>> > -
>> > cachep = virt_to_cache(x);
>> > if (WARN(cachep && cachep != s,
>> > "%s: Wrong slab cache. %s but object is from %s\n",
>>
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