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  1. Dec 28, 2018
  2. Feb 07, 2018
    • Arnd Bergmann's avatar
      kasan: rework Kconfig settings · e7c52b84
      Arnd Bergmann authored
      We get a lot of very large stack frames using gcc-7.0.1 with the default
      -fsanitize-address-use-after-scope --param asan-stack=1 options, which can
      easily cause an overflow of the kernel stack, e.g.
      
        drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/handlers.c:2434:1: warning: the frame size of 46176 bytes is larger than 3072 bytes
        drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2800lib.c:5650:1: warning: the frame size of 23632 bytes is larger than 3072 bytes
        lib/atomic64_test.c:250:1: warning: the frame size of 11200 bytes is larger than 3072 bytes
        drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt/handlers.c:2621:1: warning: the frame size of 9208 bytes is larger than 3072 bytes
        drivers/media/dvb-frontends/stv090x.c:3431:1: warning: the frame size of 6816 bytes is larger than 3072 bytes
        fs/fscache/stats.c:287:1: warning: the frame size of 6536 bytes is larger than 3072 bytes
      
      To reduce this risk, -fsanitize-address-use-after-scope is now split out
      into a separate CONFIG_KASAN_EXTRA Kconfig option, leading to stack
      frames that are smaller than 2 kilobytes most of the time on x86_64.  An
      earlier version of this patch also prevented combining KASAN_EXTRA with
      KASAN_INLINE, but that is no longer necessary with gcc-7.0.1.
      
      All patches to get the frame size below 2048 bytes with CONFIG_KASAN=y
      and CONFIG_KASAN_EXTRA=n have been merged by maintainers now, so we can
      bring back that default now.  KASAN_EXTRA=y still causes lots of
      warnings but now defaults to !COMPILE_TEST to disable it in
      allmodconfig, and it remains disabled in all other defconfigs since it
      is a new option.  I arbitrarily raise the warning limit for KASAN_EXTRA
      to 3072 to reduce the noise, but an allmodconfig kernel still has around
      50 warnings on gcc-7.
      
      I experimented a bit more with smaller stack frames and have another
      follow-up series that reduces the warning limit for 64-bit architectures
      to 1280 bytes (without CONFIG_KASAN).
      
      With earlier versions of this patch series, I also had patches to address
      the warnings we get with KASAN and/or KASAN_EXTRA, using a
      "noinline_if_stackbloat" annotation.
      
      That annotation now got replaced with a gcc-8 bugfix (see
      https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=81715) and a workaround for
      older compilers, which means that KASAN_EXTRA is now just as bad as
      before and will lead to an instant stack overflow in a few extreme
      cases.
      
      This reverts parts of commit 3f181b4d ("lib/Kconfig.debug: disable
      -Wframe-larger-than warnings with KASAN=y").  Two patches in linux-next
      should be merged first to avoid introducing warnings in an allmodconfig
      build:
        3cd890db ("media: dvb-frontends: fix i2c access helpers for KASAN")
        16c3ada8 ("media: r820t: fix r820t_write_reg for KASAN")
      
      Do we really need to backport this?
      
      I think we do: without this patch, enabling KASAN will lead to
      unavoidable kernel stack overflow in certain device drivers when built
      with gcc-7 or higher on linux-4.10+ or any version that contains a
      backport of commit c5caf21a.  Most people are probably still on
      older compilers, but it will get worse over time as they upgrade their
      distros.
      
      The warnings we get on kernels older than this should all be for code
      that uses dangerously large stack frames, though most of them do not
      cause an actual stack overflow by themselves.The asan-stack option was
      added in linux-4.0, and commit 3f181b4d ("lib/Kconfig.debug:
      disable -Wframe-larger-than warnings with KASAN=y") effectively turned
      off the warning for allmodconfig kernels, so I would like to see this
      fix backported to any kernels later than 4.0.
      
      I have done dozens of fixes for individual functions with stack frames
      larger than 2048 bytes with asan-stack, and I plan to make sure that
      all those fixes make it into the stable kernels as well (most are
      already there).
      
      Part of the complication here is that asan-stack (from 4.0) was
      originally assumed to always require much larger stacks, but that
      turned out to be a combination of multiple gcc bugs that we have now
      worked around and fixed, but sanitize-address-use-after-scope (from
      v4.10) has a much higher inherent stack usage and also suffers from at
      least three other problems that we have analyzed but not yet fixed
      upstream, each of them makes the stack usage more severe than it should
      be.
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171221134744.2295529-1-arnd@arndb.de
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Acked-by: default avatarAndrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
      Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
      Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
      Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
      Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
      Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
      Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      e7c52b84
    • Paul Lawrence's avatar
      kasan: support alloca() poisoning · 342061ee
      Paul Lawrence authored
      clang's AddressSanitizer implementation adds redzones on either side of
      alloca()ed buffers.  These redzones are 32-byte aligned and at least 32
      bytes long.
      
      __asan_alloca_poison() is passed the size and address of the allocated
      buffer, *excluding* the redzones on either side.  The left redzone will
      always be to the immediate left of this buffer; but AddressSanitizer may
      need to add padding between the end of the buffer and the right redzone.
      If there are any 8-byte chunks inside this padding, we should poison
      those too.
      
      __asan_allocas_unpoison() is just passed the top and bottom of the dynamic
      stack area, so unpoisoning is simpler.
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171204191735.132544-4-paullawrence@google.com
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Hackmann <ghackmann@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Lawrence <paullawrence@google.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarAndrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
      Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
      Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
      Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
      Cc: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      342061ee
    • Andrey Ryabinin's avatar
      kasan/Makefile: support LLVM style asan parameters · 1a69e7ce
      Andrey Ryabinin authored
      LLVM doesn't understand GCC-style paramters ("--param asan-foo=bar"), thus
      we currently we don't use inline/globals/stack instrumentation when
      building the kernel with clang.
      
      Add support for LLVM-style parameters ("-mllvm -asan-foo=bar") to enable
      all KASAN features.
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171204191735.132544-3-paullawrence@google.com
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Lawrence <paullawrence@google.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarAlexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
      Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
      Cc: Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@google.com>
      Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
      Cc: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      1a69e7ce
    • Andrey Konovalov's avatar
      kasan: don't emit builtin calls when sanitization is off · 0e410e15
      Andrey Konovalov authored
      With KASAN enabled the kernel has two different memset() functions, one
      with KASAN checks (memset) and one without (__memset).  KASAN uses some
      macro tricks to use the proper version where required.  For example
      memset() calls in mm/slub.c are without KASAN checks, since they operate
      on poisoned slab object metadata.
      
      The issue is that clang emits memset() calls even when there is no
      memset() in the source code.  They get linked with improper memset()
      implementation and the kernel fails to boot due to a huge amount of KASAN
      reports during early boot stages.
      
      The solution is to add -fno-builtin flag for files with KASAN_SANITIZE :=
      n marker.
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8ffecfffe04088c52c42b92739c2bd8a0bcb3f5e.1516384594.git.andreyknvl@google.com
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
      Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
      Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>
      Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
      Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
      Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
      Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      0e410e15
  3. Nov 02, 2017
    • Greg Kroah-Hartman's avatar
      License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license · b2441318
      Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
      
      Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
      makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.
      
      By default all files without license information are under the default
      license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.
      
      Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
      SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
      shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.
      
      This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
      Philippe Ombredanne.
      
      How this work was done:
      
      Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
      the use cases:
       - file had no licensing information it it.
       - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
       - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,
      
      Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
      where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
      had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.
      
      The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
      a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
      output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
      tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
      base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.
      
      The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
      assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
      results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
      to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
      immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
      
      Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
       - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
       - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
         lines of source
       - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
         lines).
      
      All documentation files were explicitly excluded.
      
      The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
      identifiers to apply.
      
       - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
         considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
         COPYING file license applied.
      
         For non */uapi/* files that summary was:
      
         SPDX license identifier                            # files
         ---------------------------------------------------|-------
         GPL-2.0                                              11139
      
         and resulted in the first patch in this series.
      
         If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
         Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:
      
         SPDX license identifier                            # files
         ---------------------------------------------------|-------
         GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930
      
         and resulted in the second patch in this series.
      
       - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
         of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
         any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
         it (per prior point).  Results summary:
      
         SPDX license identifier                            # files
         ---------------------------------------------------|------
         GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
         GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
         ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
         ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
         LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
         GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
         ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
         LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
         LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
         ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
         ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1
      
         and that resulted in the third patch in this series.
      
       - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
         the concluded license(s).
      
       - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
         license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
         licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.
      
       - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
         resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
         which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).
      
       - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
         confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
      
       - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
         the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
         in time.
      
      In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
      spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
      source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
      by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
      
      Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
      FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
      disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
      Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
      they are related.
      
      Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
      for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
      files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
      in about 15000 files.
      
      In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
      copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
      correct identifier.
      
      Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
      inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
      version early this week with:
       - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
         license ids and scores
       - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
         files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
       - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
         was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
         SPDX license was correct
      
      This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
      worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
      different types of files to be modified.
      
      These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
      parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
      format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
      based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
      distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
      comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
      generate the patches.
      
      Reviewed-by: default avatarKate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarPhilippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      b2441318
  4. Dec 13, 2016
  5. Oct 12, 2015
    • Andrey Ryabinin's avatar
      arm64: add KASAN support · 39d114dd
      Andrey Ryabinin authored
      
      This patch adds arch specific code for kernel address sanitizer
      (see Documentation/kasan.txt).
      
      1/8 of kernel addresses reserved for shadow memory. There was no
      big enough hole for this, so virtual addresses for shadow were
      stolen from vmalloc area.
      
      At early boot stage the whole shadow region populated with just
      one physical page (kasan_zero_page). Later, this page reused
      as readonly zero shadow for some memory that KASan currently
      don't track (vmalloc).
      After mapping the physical memory, pages for shadow memory are
      allocated and mapped.
      
      Functions like memset/memmove/memcpy do a lot of memory accesses.
      If bad pointer passed to one of these function it is important
      to catch this. Compiler's instrumentation cannot do this since
      these functions are written in assembly.
      KASan replaces memory functions with manually instrumented variants.
      Original functions declared as weak symbols so strong definitions
      in mm/kasan/kasan.c could replace them. Original functions have aliases
      with '__' prefix in name, so we could call non-instrumented variant
      if needed.
      Some files built without kasan instrumentation (e.g. mm/slub.c).
      Original mem* function replaced (via #define) with prefixed variants
      to disable memory access checks for such files.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
      Tested-by: default avatarLinus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
      39d114dd
  6. Apr 17, 2015
  7. Feb 14, 2015
    • Andrey Ryabinin's avatar
      kasan: enable instrumentation of global variables · bebf56a1
      Andrey Ryabinin authored
      
      This feature let us to detect accesses out of bounds of global variables.
      This will work as for globals in kernel image, so for globals in modules.
      Currently this won't work for symbols in user-specified sections (e.g.
      __init, __read_mostly, ...)
      
      The idea of this is simple.  Compiler increases each global variable by
      redzone size and add constructors invoking __asan_register_globals()
      function.  Information about global variable (address, size, size with
      redzone ...) passed to __asan_register_globals() so we could poison
      variable's redzone.
      
      This patch also forces module_alloc() to return 8*PAGE_SIZE aligned
      address making shadow memory handling (
      kasan_module_alloc()/kasan_module_free() ) more simple.  Such alignment
      guarantees that each shadow page backing modules address space correspond
      to only one module_alloc() allocation.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>
      Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
      Cc: Konstantin Serebryany <kcc@google.com>
      Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov <dmitryc@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrey Konovalov <adech.fo@gmail.com>
      Cc: Yuri Gribov <tetra2005@gmail.com>
      Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
      Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
      Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
      Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
      Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
      Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      bebf56a1
    • Andrey Ryabinin's avatar
      kasan: enable stack instrumentation · c420f167
      Andrey Ryabinin authored
      
      Stack instrumentation allows to detect out of bounds memory accesses for
      variables allocated on stack.  Compiler adds redzones around every
      variable on stack and poisons redzones in function's prologue.
      
      Such approach significantly increases stack usage, so all in-kernel stacks
      size were doubled.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>
      Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
      Cc: Konstantin Serebryany <kcc@google.com>
      Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov <dmitryc@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrey Konovalov <adech.fo@gmail.com>
      Cc: Yuri Gribov <tetra2005@gmail.com>
      Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
      Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
      Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
      Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
      Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
      Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      c420f167
    • Andrey Ryabinin's avatar
      kasan: add kernel address sanitizer infrastructure · 0b24becc
      Andrey Ryabinin authored
      Kernel Address sanitizer (KASan) is a dynamic memory error detector.  It
      provides fast and comprehensive solution for finding use-after-free and
      out-of-bounds bugs.
      
      KASAN uses compile-time instrumentation for checking every memory access,
      therefore GCC > v4.9.2 required.  v4.9.2 almost works, but has issues with
      putting symbol aliases into the wrong section, which breaks kasan
      instrumentation of globals.
      
      This patch only adds infrastructure for kernel address sanitizer.  It's
      not available for use yet.  The idea and some code was borrowed from [1].
      
      Basic idea:
      
      The main idea of KASAN is to use shadow memory to record whether each byte
      of memory is safe to access or not, and use compiler's instrumentation to
      check the shadow memory on each memory access.
      
      Address sanitizer uses 1/8 of the memory addressable in kernel for shadow
      memory and uses direct mapping with a scale and offset to translate a
      memory address to its corresponding shadow address.
      
      Here is function to translate address to corresponding shadow address:
      
           unsigned long kasan_mem_to_shadow(unsigned long addr)
           {
                      return (addr >> KASAN_SHADOW_SCALE_SHIFT) + KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET;
           }
      
      where KASAN_SHADOW_SCALE_SHIFT = 3.
      
      So for every 8 bytes there is one corresponding byte of shadow memory.
      The following encoding used for each shadow byte: 0 means that all 8 bytes
      of the corresponding memory region are valid for access; k (1 <= k <= 7)
      means that the first k bytes are valid for access, and other (8 - k) bytes
      are not; Any negative value indicates that the entire 8-bytes are
      inaccessible.  Different negative values used to distinguish between
      different kinds of inaccessible memory (redzones, freed memory) (see
      mm/kasan/kasan.h).
      
      To be able to detect accesses to bad memory we need a special compiler.
      Such compiler inserts a specific function calls (__asan_load*(addr),
      __asan_store*(addr)) before each memory access of size 1, 2, 4, 8 or 16.
      
      These functions check whether memory region is valid to access or not by
      checking corresponding shadow memory.  If access is not valid an error
      printed.
      
      Historical background of the address sanitizer from Dmitry Vyukov:
      
      	"We've developed the set of tools, AddressSanitizer (Asan),
      	ThreadSanitizer and MemorySanitizer, for user space. We actively use
      	them for testing inside of Google (continuous testing, fuzzing,
      	running prod services). To date the tools have found more than 10'000
      	scary bugs in Chromium, Google internal codebase and various
      	open-source projects (Firefox, OpenSSL, gcc, clang, ffmpeg, MySQL and
      	lots of others): [2] [3] [4].
      	The tools are part of both gcc and clang compilers.
      
      	We have not yet done massive testing under the Kernel AddressSanitizer
      	(it's kind of chicken and egg problem, you need it to be upstream to
      	start applying it extensively). To date it has found about 50 bugs.
      	Bugs that we've found in upstream kernel are listed in [5].
      	We've also found ~20 bugs in out internal version of the kernel. Also
      	people from Samsung and Oracle have found some.
      
      	[...]
      
      	As others noted, the main feature of AddressSanitizer is its
      	performance due to inline compiler instrumentation and simple linear
      	shadow memory. User-space Asan has ~2x slowdown on computational
      	programs and ~2x memory consumption increase. Taking into account that
      	kernel usually consumes only small fraction of CPU and memory when
      	running real user-space programs, I would expect that kernel Asan will
      	have ~10-30% slowdown and similar memory consumption increase (when we
      	finish all tuning).
      
      	I agree that Asan can well replace kmemcheck. We have plans to start
      	working on Kernel MemorySanitizer that finds uses of unitialized
      	memory. Asan+Msan will provide feature-parity with kmemcheck. As
      	others noted, Asan will unlikely replace debug slab and pagealloc that
      	can be enabled at runtime. Asan uses compiler instrumentation, so even
      	if it is disabled, it still incurs visible overheads.
      
      	Asan technology is easily portable to other architectures. Compiler
      	instrumentation is fully portable. Runtime has some arch-dependent
      	parts like shadow mapping and atomic operation interception. They are
      	relatively easy to port."
      
      Comparison with other debugging features:
      ========================================
      
      KMEMCHECK:
      
        - KASan can do almost everything that kmemcheck can.  KASan uses
          compile-time instrumentation, which makes it significantly faster than
          kmemcheck.  The only advantage of kmemcheck over KASan is detection of
          uninitialized memory reads.
      
          Some brief performance testing showed that kasan could be
          x500-x600 times faster than kmemcheck:
      
      $ netperf -l 30
      		MIGRATED TCP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 0 AF_INET
      		Recv   Send    Send
      		Socket Socket  Message  Elapsed
      		Size   Size    Size     Time     Throughput
      		bytes  bytes   bytes    secs.    10^6bits/sec
      
      no debug:	87380  16384  16384    30.00    41624.72
      
      kasan inline:	87380  16384  16384    30.00    12870.54
      
      kasan outline:	87380  16384  16384    30.00    10586.39
      
      kmemcheck: 	87380  16384  16384    30.03      20.23
      
        - Also kmemcheck couldn't work on several CPUs.  It always sets
          number of CPUs to 1.  KASan doesn't have such limitation.
      
      DEBUG_PAGEALLOC:
      	- KASan is slower than DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, but KASan works on sub-page
      	  granularity level, so it able to find more bugs.
      
      SLUB_DEBUG (poisoning, redzones):
      	- SLUB_DEBUG has lower overhead than KASan.
      
      	- SLUB_DEBUG in most cases are not able to detect bad reads,
      	  KASan able to detect both reads and writes.
      
      	- In some cases (e.g. redzone overwritten) SLUB_DEBUG detect
      	  bugs only on allocation/freeing of object. KASan catch
      	  bugs right before it will happen, so we always know exact
      	  place of first bad read/write.
      
      [1] https://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/wiki/AddressSanitizerForKernel
      [2] https://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/wiki/FoundBugs
      [3] https://code.google.com/p/thread-sanitizer/wiki/FoundBugs
      [4] https://code.google.com/p/memory-sanitizer/wiki/FoundBugs
      [5] https://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/wiki/AddressSanitizerForKernel#Trophies
      
      
      
      Based on work by Andrey Konovalov.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrey Konovalov <adech.fo@gmail.com>
      Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
      Cc: Konstantin Serebryany <kcc@google.com>
      Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov <dmitryc@google.com>
      Cc: Yuri Gribov <tetra2005@gmail.com>
      Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
      Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
      Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
      Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
      Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
      Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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