[PATCH v2 0/9] kasan: improve error reports

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Andrey Konovalov

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Mar 2, 2017, 8:49:04 AM3/2/17
to Andrey Ryabinin, Alexander Potapenko, Dmitry Vyukov, kasa...@googlegroups.com, linu...@kvack.org, linux-...@vger.kernel.org, Andrey Konovalov
This patchset improves KASAN reports by making them easier to read
and a little more detailed.
Also improves mm/kasan/report.c readability.

Effectively changes a use-after-free report to:

==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in kmalloc_uaf+0xaa/0xb6 [test_kasan]
Write of size 1 at addr ffff88006aa59da8 by task insmod/3951

CPU: 1 PID: 3951 Comm: insmod Tainted: G B 4.10.0+ #84
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0x292/0x398
print_address_description+0x73/0x280
kasan_report.part.2+0x207/0x2f0
__asan_report_store1_noabort+0x2c/0x30
kmalloc_uaf+0xaa/0xb6 [test_kasan]
kmalloc_tests_init+0x4f/0xa48 [test_kasan]
do_one_initcall+0xf3/0x390
do_init_module+0x215/0x5d0
load_module+0x54de/0x82b0
SYSC_init_module+0x3be/0x430
SyS_init_module+0x9/0x10
entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xc2
RIP: 0033:0x7f22cfd0b9da
RSP: 002b:00007ffe69118a78 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000af
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000555671242090 RCX: 00007f22cfd0b9da
RDX: 00007f22cffcaf88 RSI: 000000000004df7e RDI: 00007f22d0399000
RBP: 00007f22cffcaf88 R08: 0000000000000003 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 00007f22cfd07d0a R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 0000555671243190
R13: 000000000001fe81 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000004

Allocated by task 3951:
save_stack_trace+0x16/0x20
save_stack+0x43/0xd0
kasan_kmalloc+0xad/0xe0
kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x82/0x270
kmalloc_uaf+0x56/0xb6 [test_kasan]
kmalloc_tests_init+0x4f/0xa48 [test_kasan]
do_one_initcall+0xf3/0x390
do_init_module+0x215/0x5d0
load_module+0x54de/0x82b0
SYSC_init_module+0x3be/0x430
SyS_init_module+0x9/0x10
entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xc2

Freed by task 3951:
save_stack_trace+0x16/0x20
save_stack+0x43/0xd0
kasan_slab_free+0x72/0xc0
kfree+0xe8/0x2b0
kmalloc_uaf+0x85/0xb6 [test_kasan]
kmalloc_tests_init+0x4f/0xa48 [test_kasan]
do_one_initcall+0xf3/0x390
do_init_module+0x215/0x5d0
load_module+0x54de/0x82b0
SYSC_init_module+0x3be/0x430
SyS_init_module+0x9/0x10
entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xc

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88006aa59da0
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-16 of size 16
The buggy address is located 8 bytes inside of
16-byte region [ffff88006aa59da0, ffff88006aa59db0)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea0001aa9640 count:1 mapcount:0 mapping: (null) index:0x0
flags: 0x100000000000100(slab)
raw: 0100000000000100 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000180800080
raw: ffffea0001abe380 0000000700000007 ffff88006c401b40 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected

Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff88006aa59c80: 00 00 fc fc 00 00 fc fc 00 00 fc fc 00 00 fc fc
ffff88006aa59d00: 00 00 fc fc 00 00 fc fc 00 00 fc fc 00 00 fc fc
>ffff88006aa59d80: fb fb fc fc fb fb fc fc fb fb fc fc fb fb fc fc
^
ffff88006aa59e00: fb fb fc fc fb fb fc fc fb fb fc fc fb fb fc fc
ffff88006aa59e80: fb fb fc fc 00 00 fc fc 00 00 fc fc 00 00 fc fc
==================================================================

from:

==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in kmalloc_uaf+0xaa/0xb6 [test_kasan] at addr ffff88006c4dcb28
Write of size 1 by task insmod/3984
CPU: 1 PID: 3984 Comm: insmod Tainted: G B 4.10.0+ #83
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0x292/0x398
kasan_object_err+0x1c/0x70
kasan_report.part.1+0x20e/0x4e0
__asan_report_store1_noabort+0x2c/0x30
kmalloc_uaf+0xaa/0xb6 [test_kasan]
kmalloc_tests_init+0x4f/0xa48 [test_kasan]
do_one_initcall+0xf3/0x390
do_init_module+0x215/0x5d0
load_module+0x54de/0x82b0
SYSC_init_module+0x3be/0x430
SyS_init_module+0x9/0x10
entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xc2
RIP: 0033:0x7feca0f779da
RSP: 002b:00007ffdfeae5218 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000af
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000055a064c13090 RCX: 00007feca0f779da
RDX: 00007feca1236f88 RSI: 000000000004df7e RDI: 00007feca1605000
RBP: 00007feca1236f88 R08: 0000000000000003 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 00007feca0f73d0a R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 000055a064c14190
R13: 000000000001fe81 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000004
Object at ffff88006c4dcb20, in cache kmalloc-16 size: 16
Allocated:
PID = 3984
save_stack_trace+0x16/0x20
save_stack+0x43/0xd0
kasan_kmalloc+0xad/0xe0
kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x82/0x270
kmalloc_uaf+0x56/0xb6 [test_kasan]
kmalloc_tests_init+0x4f/0xa48 [test_kasan]
do_one_initcall+0xf3/0x390
do_init_module+0x215/0x5d0
load_module+0x54de/0x82b0
SYSC_init_module+0x3be/0x430
SyS_init_module+0x9/0x10
entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xc2
Freed:
PID = 3984
save_stack_trace+0x16/0x20
save_stack+0x43/0xd0
kasan_slab_free+0x73/0xc0
kfree+0xe8/0x2b0
kmalloc_uaf+0x85/0xb6 [test_kasan]
kmalloc_tests_init+0x4f/0xa48 [test_kasan]
do_one_initcall+0xf3/0x390
do_init_module+0x215/0x5d0
load_module+0x54de/0x82b0
SYSC_init_module+0x3be/0x430
SyS_init_module+0x9/0x10
entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xc2
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff88006c4dca00: fb fb fc fc fb fb fc fc fb fb fc fc fb fb fc fc
ffff88006c4dca80: fb fb fc fc fb fb fc fc fb fb fc fc fb fb fc fc
>ffff88006c4dcb00: fb fb fc fc fb fb fc fc fb fb fc fc fb fb fc fc
^
ffff88006c4dcb80: fb fb fc fc 00 00 fc fc fb fb fc fc fb fb fc fc
ffff88006c4dcc00: fb fb fc fc fb fb fc fc fb fb fc fc fb fb fc fc
==================================================================

Changes in v2:
- split patch in multiple smaller ones
- improve double-free reports

Andrey Konovalov (9):
kasan: introduce helper functions for determining bug type
kasan: unify report headers
kasan: change allocation and freeing stack traces headers
kasan: simplify address description logic
kasan: change report header
kasan: improve slab object description
kasan: print page description after stacks
kasan: improve double-free report format
kasan: separate report parts by empty lines

mm/kasan/kasan.c | 3 +-
mm/kasan/kasan.h | 2 +-
mm/kasan/report.c | 187 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
3 files changed, 127 insertions(+), 65 deletions(-)

--
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Andrey Konovalov

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Mar 2, 2017, 8:49:05 AM3/2/17
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Change report header format from:

BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in unwind_get_return_address+0x28a/0x2c0 at addr ffff880069437950
Read of size 8 by task insmod/3925

to:

BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in unwind_get_return_address+0x28a/0x2c0
Read of size 8 at addr ffff880069437950 by task insmod/3925

The exact access address is not usually important, so move it to the
second line. This also makes the header look visually balanced.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andre...@google.com>
---
mm/kasan/report.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/kasan/report.c b/mm/kasan/report.c
index 8b0b27eb37cd..945d0e13e8a4 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/report.c
+++ b/mm/kasan/report.c
@@ -130,11 +130,11 @@ static void print_error_description(struct kasan_access_info *info)
{
const char *bug_type = get_bug_type(info);

- pr_err("BUG: KASAN: %s in %pS at addr %p\n",
- bug_type, (void *)info->ip, info->access_addr);
- pr_err("%s of size %zu by task %s/%d\n",
+ pr_err("BUG: KASAN: %s in %pS\n",
+ bug_type, (void *)info->ip);
+ pr_err("%s of size %zu at addr %p by task %s/%d\n",
info->is_write ? "Write" : "Read", info->access_size,
- current->comm, task_pid_nr(current));
+ info->access_addr, current->comm, task_pid_nr(current));
}

static inline bool kernel_or_module_addr(const void *addr)
--
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Andrey Konovalov

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Simplify logic for describing a memory address.
Add addr_to_page() helper function.

Makes the code easier to follow.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andre...@google.com>
---
mm/kasan/report.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++----------------
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/kasan/report.c b/mm/kasan/report.c
index 5922330237fd..8b0b27eb37cd 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/report.c
+++ b/mm/kasan/report.c
@@ -188,11 +188,18 @@ static void print_track(struct kasan_track *track, const char *prefix)
}
}

-static void kasan_object_err(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object)
+static struct page *addr_to_page(const void *addr)
+{
+ if ((addr >= (void *)PAGE_OFFSET) &&
+ (addr < high_memory))
+ return virt_to_head_page(addr);
+ return NULL;
+}
+
+static void describe_object(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object)
{
struct kasan_alloc_meta *alloc_info = get_alloc_info(cache, object);

- dump_stack();
pr_err("Object at %p, in cache %s size: %d\n", object, cache->name,
cache->object_size);

@@ -211,34 +218,32 @@ void kasan_report_double_free(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object,
kasan_start_report(&flags);
pr_err("BUG: Double free or freeing an invalid pointer\n");
pr_err("Unexpected shadow byte: 0x%hhX\n", shadow);
- kasan_object_err(cache, object);
+ dump_stack();
+ describe_object(cache, object);
kasan_end_report(&flags);
}

static void print_address_description(struct kasan_access_info *info)
{
const void *addr = info->access_addr;
+ struct page *page = addr_to_page(addr);

- if ((addr >= (void *)PAGE_OFFSET) &&
- (addr < high_memory)) {
- struct page *page = virt_to_head_page(addr);
-
- if (PageSlab(page)) {
- void *object;
- struct kmem_cache *cache = page->slab_cache;
- object = nearest_obj(cache, page,
- (void *)info->access_addr);
- kasan_object_err(cache, object);
- return;
- }
+ if (page)
dump_page(page, "kasan: bad access detected");
+
+ dump_stack();
+
+ if (page && PageSlab(page)) {
+ struct kmem_cache *cache = page->slab_cache;
+ void *object = nearest_obj(cache, page, (void *)addr);
+
+ describe_object(cache, object);
}

if (kernel_or_module_addr(addr)) {
if (!init_task_stack_addr(addr))
pr_err("Address belongs to variable %pS\n", addr);
}
- dump_stack();
}

static bool row_is_guilty(const void *row, const void *guilty)
--
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Andrey Konovalov

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to Andrey Ryabinin, Alexander Potapenko, Dmitry Vyukov, kasa...@googlegroups.com, linu...@kvack.org, linux-...@vger.kernel.org, Andrey Konovalov
Change stack traces headers from:

Allocated:
PID = 42

to:

Allocated by task 42:

Makes the report one line shorter and look better.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andre...@google.com>
---
mm/kasan/report.c | 10 ++++------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/kasan/report.c b/mm/kasan/report.c
index 34a6d1aec524..5922330237fd 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/report.c
+++ b/mm/kasan/report.c
@@ -175,9 +175,9 @@ static void kasan_end_report(unsigned long *flags)
kasan_enable_current();
}

-static void print_track(struct kasan_track *track)
+static void print_track(struct kasan_track *track, const char *prefix)
{
- pr_err("PID = %u\n", track->pid);
+ pr_err("%s by task %u:\n", prefix, track->pid);
if (track->stack) {
struct stack_trace trace;

@@ -199,10 +199,8 @@ static void kasan_object_err(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object)
if (!(cache->flags & SLAB_KASAN))
return;

- pr_err("Allocated:\n");
- print_track(&alloc_info->alloc_track);
- pr_err("Freed:\n");
- print_track(&alloc_info->free_track);
+ print_track(&alloc_info->alloc_track, "Allocated");
+ print_track(&alloc_info->free_track, "Freed");
}

void kasan_report_double_free(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object,
--
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Andrey Konovalov

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Unify KASAN report header format for different kinds of bad memory
accesses. Makes the code simpler.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andre...@google.com>
---
mm/kasan/report.c | 26 +++++++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/kasan/report.c b/mm/kasan/report.c
index 2790b4cadfa3..34a6d1aec524 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/report.c
+++ b/mm/kasan/report.c
@@ -119,16 +119,22 @@ const char *get_wild_bug_type(struct kasan_access_info *info)
return bug_type;
}

+static const char *get_bug_type(struct kasan_access_info *info)
+{
+ if (addr_has_shadow(info))
+ return get_shadow_bug_type(info);
+ return get_wild_bug_type(info);
+}
+
static void print_error_description(struct kasan_access_info *info)
{
- const char *bug_type = get_shadow_bug_type(info);
+ const char *bug_type = get_bug_type(info);

pr_err("BUG: KASAN: %s in %pS at addr %p\n",
- bug_type, (void *)info->ip,
- info->access_addr);
+ bug_type, (void *)info->ip, info->access_addr);
pr_err("%s of size %zu by task %s/%d\n",
- info->is_write ? "Write" : "Read",
- info->access_size, current->comm, task_pid_nr(current));
+ info->is_write ? "Write" : "Read", info->access_size,
+ current->comm, task_pid_nr(current));
}

static inline bool kernel_or_module_addr(const void *addr)
@@ -295,17 +301,11 @@ static void kasan_report_error(struct kasan_access_info *info)

kasan_start_report(&flags);

+ print_error_description(info);
+
if (!addr_has_shadow(info)) {
- const char *bug_type = get_wild_bug_type(info);
- pr_err("BUG: KASAN: %s on address %p\n",
- bug_type, info->access_addr);
- pr_err("%s of size %zu by task %s/%d\n",
- info->is_write ? "Write" : "Read",
- info->access_size, current->comm,
- task_pid_nr(current));
dump_stack();
} else {
- print_error_description(info);
print_address_description(info);
print_shadow_for_address(info->first_bad_addr);
}
--
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Andrey Konovalov

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Changes double-free report header from:

BUG: Double free or freeing an invalid pointer
Unexpected shadow byte: 0xFB

to:

BUG: KASAN: double-free or invalid-free in kmalloc_oob_left+0xe5/0xef

This makes a bug uniquely identifiable by the first report line.
To account for removing of the unexpected shadow value, print shadow
bytes at the end of the report as in reports for other kinds of bugs.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andre...@google.com>
---
mm/kasan/kasan.c | 3 ++-
mm/kasan/kasan.h | 2 +-
mm/kasan/report.c | 30 ++++++++++++++----------------
3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/kasan/kasan.c b/mm/kasan/kasan.c
index 25f0e6521f36..bd89fe06bb86 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/kasan.c
+++ b/mm/kasan/kasan.c
@@ -566,7 +566,8 @@ bool kasan_slab_free(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object)

shadow_byte = READ_ONCE(*(s8 *)kasan_mem_to_shadow(object));
if (shadow_byte < 0 || shadow_byte >= KASAN_SHADOW_SCALE_SIZE) {
- kasan_report_double_free(cache, object, shadow_byte);
+ kasan_report_double_free(cache, object,
+ __builtin_return_address(1));
return true;
}

diff --git a/mm/kasan/kasan.h b/mm/kasan/kasan.h
index 1c260e6b3b3c..75729173ade9 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/kasan.h
+++ b/mm/kasan/kasan.h
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ static inline bool kasan_report_enabled(void)
void kasan_report(unsigned long addr, size_t size,
bool is_write, unsigned long ip);
void kasan_report_double_free(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object,
- s8 shadow);
+ void *ip);

#if defined(CONFIG_SLAB) || defined(CONFIG_SLUB)
void quarantine_put(struct kasan_free_meta *info, struct kmem_cache *cache);
diff --git a/mm/kasan/report.c b/mm/kasan/report.c
index 1d2b15174a98..210131bc0a3c 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/report.c
+++ b/mm/kasan/report.c
@@ -241,22 +241,8 @@ static void describe_object(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object,
describe_object_addr(cache, object, addr);
}

-void kasan_report_double_free(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object,
- s8 shadow)
-{
- unsigned long flags;
-
- kasan_start_report(&flags);
- pr_err("BUG: Double free or freeing an invalid pointer\n");
- pr_err("Unexpected shadow byte: 0x%hhX\n", shadow);
- dump_stack();
- describe_object(cache, object, NULL);
- kasan_end_report(&flags);
-}
-
-static void print_address_description(struct kasan_access_info *info)
+static void print_address_description(void *addr)
{
- void *addr = (void *)info->access_addr;
struct page *page = addr_to_page(addr);

dump_stack();
@@ -331,6 +317,18 @@ static void print_shadow_for_address(const void *addr)
}
}

+void kasan_report_double_free(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object,
+ void *ip)
+{
+ unsigned long flags;
+
+ kasan_start_report(&flags);
+ pr_err("BUG: KASAN: double-free or invalid-free in %pS\n", ip);
+ print_address_description(object);
+ print_shadow_for_address(object);
+ kasan_end_report(&flags);
+}
+
static void kasan_report_error(struct kasan_access_info *info)
{
unsigned long flags;
@@ -342,7 +340,7 @@ static void kasan_report_error(struct kasan_access_info *info)
if (!addr_has_shadow(info)) {
dump_stack();
} else {
- print_address_description(info);
+ print_address_description((void *)info->access_addr);
print_shadow_for_address(info->first_bad_addr);
}

--
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Andrey Konovalov

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Makes the report easier to read.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andre...@google.com>
---
mm/kasan/report.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/kasan/report.c b/mm/kasan/report.c
index 210131bc0a3c..718a10a48a19 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/report.c
+++ b/mm/kasan/report.c
@@ -235,7 +235,9 @@ static void describe_object(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object,

if (cache->flags & SLAB_KASAN) {
print_track(&alloc_info->alloc_track, "Allocated");
+ pr_err("\n");
print_track(&alloc_info->free_track, "Freed");
+ pr_err("\n");
}

describe_object_addr(cache, object, addr);
@@ -246,6 +248,7 @@ static void print_address_description(void *addr)
struct page *page = addr_to_page(addr);

dump_stack();
+ pr_err("\n");

if (page && PageSlab(page)) {
struct kmem_cache *cache = page->slab_cache;
@@ -324,7 +327,9 @@ void kasan_report_double_free(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object,

kasan_start_report(&flags);
pr_err("BUG: KASAN: double-free or invalid-free in %pS\n", ip);
+ pr_err("\n");
print_address_description(object);
+ pr_err("\n");
print_shadow_for_address(object);
kasan_end_report(&flags);
}
@@ -336,11 +341,13 @@ static void kasan_report_error(struct kasan_access_info *info)
kasan_start_report(&flags);

print_error_description(info);
+ pr_err("\n");

if (!addr_has_shadow(info)) {
dump_stack();
} else {
print_address_description((void *)info->access_addr);
+ pr_err("\n");
print_shadow_for_address(info->first_bad_addr);
}

--
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Andrey Konovalov

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Introduce get_shadow_bug_type() function, which determines bug type
based on the shadow value for a particular kernel address.
Introduce get_wild_bug_type() function, which determines bug type
for addresses which don't have a corresponding shadow value.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andre...@google.com>
---
mm/kasan/report.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/kasan/report.c b/mm/kasan/report.c
index f479365530b6..2790b4cadfa3 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/report.c
+++ b/mm/kasan/report.c
@@ -49,7 +49,13 @@ static const void *find_first_bad_addr(const void *addr, size_t size)
return first_bad_addr;
}

-static void print_error_description(struct kasan_access_info *info)
+static bool addr_has_shadow(struct kasan_access_info *info)
+{
+ return (info->access_addr >=
+ kasan_shadow_to_mem((void *)KASAN_SHADOW_START));
+}
+
+static const char *get_shadow_bug_type(struct kasan_access_info *info)
{
const char *bug_type = "unknown-crash";
u8 *shadow_addr;
@@ -96,6 +102,27 @@ static void print_error_description(struct kasan_access_info *info)
break;
}

+ return bug_type;
+}
+
+const char *get_wild_bug_type(struct kasan_access_info *info)
+{
+ const char *bug_type = "unknown-crash";
+
+ if ((unsigned long)info->access_addr < PAGE_SIZE)
+ bug_type = "null-ptr-deref";
+ else if ((unsigned long)info->access_addr < TASK_SIZE)
+ bug_type = "user-memory-access";
+ else
+ bug_type = "wild-memory-access";
+
+ return bug_type;
+}
+
+static void print_error_description(struct kasan_access_info *info)
+{
+ const char *bug_type = get_shadow_bug_type(info);
+
pr_err("BUG: KASAN: %s in %pS at addr %p\n",
bug_type, (void *)info->ip,
info->access_addr);
@@ -265,18 +292,11 @@ static void print_shadow_for_address(const void *addr)
static void kasan_report_error(struct kasan_access_info *info)
{
unsigned long flags;
- const char *bug_type;

kasan_start_report(&flags);

- if (info->access_addr <
- kasan_shadow_to_mem((void *)KASAN_SHADOW_START)) {
- if ((unsigned long)info->access_addr < PAGE_SIZE)
- bug_type = "null-ptr-deref";
- else if ((unsigned long)info->access_addr < TASK_SIZE)
- bug_type = "user-memory-access";
- else
- bug_type = "wild-memory-access";
+ if (!addr_has_shadow(info)) {
+ const char *bug_type = get_wild_bug_type(info);
pr_err("BUG: KASAN: %s on address %p\n",
bug_type, info->access_addr);
pr_err("%s of size %zu by task %s/%d\n",
--
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Andrey Konovalov

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Moves page description after the stacks since it's less important.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andre...@google.com>
---
mm/kasan/report.c | 14 ++++++++------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/kasan/report.c b/mm/kasan/report.c
index 8dfb7a060d69..1d2b15174a98 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/report.c
+++ b/mm/kasan/report.c
@@ -259,9 +259,6 @@ static void print_address_description(struct kasan_access_info *info)
void *addr = (void *)info->access_addr;
struct page *page = addr_to_page(addr);

- if (page)
- dump_page(page, "kasan: bad access detected");
-
dump_stack();

if (page && PageSlab(page)) {
@@ -271,9 +268,14 @@ static void print_address_description(struct kasan_access_info *info)
describe_object(cache, object, addr);
}

- if (kernel_or_module_addr(addr)) {
- if (!init_task_stack_addr(addr))
- pr_err("Address belongs to variable %pS\n", addr);
+ if (kernel_or_module_addr(addr) && !init_task_stack_addr(addr)) {
+ pr_err("The buggy address belongs to the variable:\n");
+ pr_err(" %pS\n", addr);
+ }
+
+ if (page) {
+ pr_err("The buggy address belongs to the page:\n");
+ dump_page(page, "kasan: bad access detected");
}
}

--
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Andrey Konovalov

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Changes slab object description from:

Object at ffff880068388540, in cache kmalloc-128 size: 128

to:

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff880068388540
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-128 of size 128
The buggy address is located 123 bytes inside of
128-byte region [ffff880068388540, ffff8800683885c0)

Makes it more explanatory and adds information about relative offset
of the accessed address to the start of the object.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andre...@google.com>
---
mm/kasan/report.c | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/kasan/report.c b/mm/kasan/report.c
index 945d0e13e8a4..8dfb7a060d69 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/report.c
+++ b/mm/kasan/report.c
@@ -196,18 +196,49 @@ static struct page *addr_to_page(const void *addr)
return NULL;
}

-static void describe_object(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object)
+static void describe_object_addr(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object,
+ const void *addr)
{
- struct kasan_alloc_meta *alloc_info = get_alloc_info(cache, object);
+ unsigned long access_addr = (unsigned long)addr;
+ unsigned long object_addr = (unsigned long)object;
+ const char *rel_type;
+ int rel_bytes;

- pr_err("Object at %p, in cache %s size: %d\n", object, cache->name,
- cache->object_size);
+ pr_err("The buggy address belongs to the object at %p\n"
+ " which belongs to the cache %s of size %d\n",
+ object, cache->name, cache->object_size);

- if (!(cache->flags & SLAB_KASAN))
+ if (!addr)
return;

- print_track(&alloc_info->alloc_track, "Allocated");
- print_track(&alloc_info->free_track, "Freed");
+ if (access_addr < object_addr) {
+ rel_type = "to the left";
+ rel_bytes = object_addr - access_addr;
+ } else if (access_addr >= object_addr + cache->object_size) {
+ rel_type = "to the right";
+ rel_bytes = access_addr - (object_addr + cache->object_size);
+ } else {
+ rel_type = "inside";
+ rel_bytes = access_addr - object_addr;
+ }
+
+ pr_err("The buggy address is located %d bytes %s of\n"
+ " %d-byte region [%p, %p)\n",
+ rel_bytes, rel_type, cache->object_size, (void *)object_addr,
+ (void *)(object_addr + cache->object_size));
+}
+
+static void describe_object(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object,
+ const void *addr)
+{
+ struct kasan_alloc_meta *alloc_info = get_alloc_info(cache, object);
+
+ if (cache->flags & SLAB_KASAN) {
+ print_track(&alloc_info->alloc_track, "Allocated");
+ print_track(&alloc_info->free_track, "Freed");
+ }
+
+ describe_object_addr(cache, object, addr);
}

void kasan_report_double_free(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object,
@@ -219,13 +250,13 @@ void kasan_report_double_free(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object,
pr_err("BUG: Double free or freeing an invalid pointer\n");
pr_err("Unexpected shadow byte: 0x%hhX\n", shadow);
dump_stack();
- describe_object(cache, object);
+ describe_object(cache, object, NULL);
kasan_end_report(&flags);
}

static void print_address_description(struct kasan_access_info *info)
{
- const void *addr = info->access_addr;
+ void *addr = (void *)info->access_addr;
struct page *page = addr_to_page(addr);

if (page)
@@ -235,9 +266,9 @@ static void print_address_description(struct kasan_access_info *info)

if (page && PageSlab(page)) {
struct kmem_cache *cache = page->slab_cache;
- void *object = nearest_obj(cache, page, (void *)addr);
+ void *object = nearest_obj(cache, page, addr);

- describe_object(cache, object);
+ describe_object(cache, object, addr);
}

if (kernel_or_module_addr(addr)) {
--
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Dmitry Vyukov

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On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 2:48 PM, Andrey Konovalov <andre...@google.com> wrote:
> This patchset improves KASAN reports by making them easier to read
> and a little more detailed.
> Also improves mm/kasan/report.c readability.

Acked-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvy...@google.com>

Alexander Potapenko

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On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 2:48 PM, Andrey Konovalov <andre...@google.com> wrote:
You don't seem to need "unknown-crash" here.
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static


Andrey Ryabinin

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On 03/02/2017 04:48 PM, Andrey Konovalov wrote:

> diff --git a/mm/kasan/report.c b/mm/kasan/report.c
> index 8b0b27eb37cd..945d0e13e8a4 100644
> --- a/mm/kasan/report.c
> +++ b/mm/kasan/report.c
> @@ -130,11 +130,11 @@ static void print_error_description(struct kasan_access_info *info)
> {
> const char *bug_type = get_bug_type(info);
>
> - pr_err("BUG: KASAN: %s in %pS at addr %p\n",
> - bug_type, (void *)info->ip, info->access_addr);
> - pr_err("%s of size %zu by task %s/%d\n",
> + pr_err("BUG: KASAN: %s in %pS\n",
> + bug_type, (void *)info->ip);

This should fit in one line without exceeding 80-char limit.

Andrey Ryabinin

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On 03/02/2017 04:48 PM, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> Changes slab object description from:
>
> Object at ffff880068388540, in cache kmalloc-128 size: 128
>
> to:
>
> The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff880068388540
> which belongs to the cache kmalloc-128 of size 128
> The buggy address is located 123 bytes inside of
> 128-byte region [ffff880068388540, ffff8800683885c0)
>
> Makes it more explanatory and adds information about relative offset
> of the accessed address to the start of the object.
>

I don't think that this is an improvement. You replaced one simple line with a huge
and hard to parse text without giving any new/useful information.
Except maybe offset, it useful sometimes, so wouldn't mind adding it to description.

Andrey Ryabinin

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On 03/02/2017 04:48 PM, Andrey Konovalov wrote:

> -static void kasan_object_err(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object)
> +static struct page *addr_to_page(const void *addr)
> +{
> + if ((addr >= (void *)PAGE_OFFSET) &&
> + (addr < high_memory))

Should fit in one line.

Alexander Potapenko

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Agreed.
How about:
===========
Access 123 bytes inside of 128-byte region [ffff880068388540, ffff8800683885c0)
Object at ffff880068388540 belongs to the cache kmalloc-128
===========
?

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You mean the code or the header?
The code fits, the header has much higher chances to fit after the change.

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Andrey Konovalov

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On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 3:18 PM, Andrey Konovalov <andre...@google.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Andrey Ryabinin <arya...@virtuozzo.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 03/02/2017 04:48 PM, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
>>
>>> diff --git a/mm/kasan/report.c b/mm/kasan/report.c
>>> index 8b0b27eb37cd..945d0e13e8a4 100644
>>> --- a/mm/kasan/report.c
>>> +++ b/mm/kasan/report.c
>>> @@ -130,11 +130,11 @@ static void print_error_description(struct kasan_access_info *info)
>>> {
>>> const char *bug_type = get_bug_type(info);
>>>
>>> - pr_err("BUG: KASAN: %s in %pS at addr %p\n",
>>> - bug_type, (void *)info->ip, info->access_addr);
>>> - pr_err("%s of size %zu by task %s/%d\n",
>>> + pr_err("BUG: KASAN: %s in %pS\n",
>>> + bug_type, (void *)info->ip);
>>
>> This should fit in one line without exceeding 80-char limit.
>
> You mean the code or the header?
> The code fits, the header has much higher chances to fit after the change.

Ah, got you, will fix.

Andrey Ryabinin

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On 03/03/2017 04:52 PM, Alexander Potapenko wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Andrey Ryabinin <arya...@virtuozzo.com> wrote:
>> On 03/02/2017 04:48 PM, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
>>> Changes slab object description from:
>>>
>>> Object at ffff880068388540, in cache kmalloc-128 size: 128
>>>
>>> to:
>>>
>>> The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff880068388540
>>> which belongs to the cache kmalloc-128 of size 128
>>> The buggy address is located 123 bytes inside of
>>> 128-byte region [ffff880068388540, ffff8800683885c0)
>>>
>>> Makes it more explanatory and adds information about relative offset
>>> of the accessed address to the start of the object.
>>>
>>
>> I don't think that this is an improvement. You replaced one simple line with a huge
>> and hard to parse text without giving any new/useful information.
>> Except maybe offset, it useful sometimes, so wouldn't mind adding it to description.
> Agreed.
> How about:
> ===========
> Access 123 bytes inside of 128-byte region [ffff880068388540, ffff8800683885c0)
> Object at ffff880068388540 belongs to the cache kmalloc-128
> ===========
> ?
>

I would just add the offset in the end:
Object at ffff880068388540, in cache kmalloc-128 size: 128 accessed at offset y

Andrey Konovalov

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Access can be inside or outside the object, so it's better to
specifically say that.

I think we can do (basically what Alexander suggested):

Object at ffff880068388540 belongs to the cache kmalloc-128 of size 128
Access 123 bytes inside of 128-byte region [ffff880068388540, ffff8800683885c0)

What do you think?

Andrey Konovalov

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This patchset improves KASAN reports by making them easier to read
and a little more detailed.
Also improves mm/kasan/report.c readability.

Object at ffff880068388540 belongs to cache kmalloc-128 of size 128
Access 123 bytes inside of 128-byte region [ffff880068388540, ffff8800683885c0)
Changes in v3:
- make slab objects description shorter
- pass caller addr from SLUB/SLAB instead of usign __builtin_return_address
- make get_wild_bug_type() static
- combine consequent lines into one when possible

Changes in v2:
- split patch in multiple smaller ones
- improve double-free reports

Andrey Konovalov (9):
kasan: introduce helper functions for determining bug type
kasan: unify report headers
kasan: change allocation and freeing stack traces headers
kasan: simplify address description logic
kasan: change report header
kasan: improve slab object description
kasan: print page description after stacks
kasan: improve double-free report format
kasan: separate report parts by empty lines

include/linux/kasan.h | 2 +-
mm/kasan/kasan.c | 5 +-
mm/kasan/kasan.h | 2 +-
mm/kasan/report.c | 185 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
mm/slab.c | 2 +-
mm/slub.c | 12 ++--
6 files changed, 134 insertions(+), 74 deletions(-)

--
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Andrey Konovalov

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Change report header format from:

BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in unwind_get_return_address+0x28a/0x2c0 at addr ffff880069437950
Read of size 8 by task insmod/3925

to:

BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in unwind_get_return_address+0x28a/0x2c0
Read of size 8 at addr ffff880069437950 by task insmod/3925

The exact access address is not usually important, so move it to the
second line. This also makes the header look visually balanced.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andre...@google.com>
---
mm/kasan/report.c | 7 +++----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/kasan/report.c b/mm/kasan/report.c
index f77341979dae..156f998199e2 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/report.c
+++ b/mm/kasan/report.c
@@ -130,11 +130,10 @@ static void print_error_description(struct kasan_access_info *info)
{
const char *bug_type = get_bug_type(info);

- pr_err("BUG: KASAN: %s in %pS at addr %p\n",
- bug_type, (void *)info->ip, info->access_addr);
- pr_err("%s of size %zu by task %s/%d\n",
+ pr_err("BUG: KASAN: %s in %pS\n", bug_type, (void *)info->ip);
+ pr_err("%s of size %zu at addr %p by task %s/%d\n",
info->is_write ? "Write" : "Read", info->access_size,
- current->comm, task_pid_nr(current));
+ info->access_addr, current->comm, task_pid_nr(current));
}

static inline bool kernel_or_module_addr(const void *addr)
--
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Andrey Konovalov

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Changes slab object description from:

Object at ffff880068388540, in cache kmalloc-128 size: 128

to:

Object at ffff880068388540 belongs to cache kmalloc-128 of size 128
Access 123 bytes inside of 128-byte region [ffff880068388540, ffff8800683885c0)

This adds information about relative offset of the accessed address to
the start of the object.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andre...@google.com>
---
mm/kasan/report.c | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/kasan/report.c b/mm/kasan/report.c
index 156f998199e2..87f8293d7b79 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/report.c
+++ b/mm/kasan/report.c
@@ -194,18 +194,47 @@ static struct page *addr_to_page(const void *addr)
return NULL;
}

-static void describe_object(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object)
+static void describe_object_addr(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object,
+ const void *addr)
{
- struct kasan_alloc_meta *alloc_info = get_alloc_info(cache, object);
+ unsigned long access_addr = (unsigned long)addr;
+ unsigned long object_addr = (unsigned long)object;
+ const char *rel_type;
+ int rel_bytes;

- pr_err("Object at %p, in cache %s size: %d\n", object, cache->name,
- cache->object_size);
+ pr_err("Object at %p belongs to cache %s of size %d\n",
+ object, cache->name, cache->object_size);

- if (!(cache->flags & SLAB_KASAN))
+ if (!addr)
return;

- print_track(&alloc_info->alloc_track, "Allocated");
- print_track(&alloc_info->free_track, "Freed");
+ if (access_addr < object_addr) {
+ rel_type = "to the left";
+ rel_bytes = object_addr - access_addr;
+ } else if (access_addr >= object_addr + cache->object_size) {
+ rel_type = "to the right";
+ rel_bytes = access_addr - (object_addr + cache->object_size);
+ } else {
+ rel_type = "inside";
+ rel_bytes = access_addr - object_addr;
+ }
+
+ pr_err("Access %d bytes %s of %d-byte region [%p, %p)\n",
+ rel_bytes, rel_type, cache->object_size, (void *)object_addr,
+ (void *)(object_addr + cache->object_size));
+}
+
+static void describe_object(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object,
+ const void *addr)
+{
+ struct kasan_alloc_meta *alloc_info = get_alloc_info(cache, object);
+
+ if (cache->flags & SLAB_KASAN) {
+ print_track(&alloc_info->alloc_track, "Allocated");
+ print_track(&alloc_info->free_track, "Freed");
+ }
+
+ describe_object_addr(cache, object, addr);
}

void kasan_report_double_free(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object,
@@ -217,13 +246,13 @@ void kasan_report_double_free(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object,
pr_err("BUG: Double free or freeing an invalid pointer\n");
pr_err("Unexpected shadow byte: 0x%hhX\n", shadow);
dump_stack();
- describe_object(cache, object);
+ describe_object(cache, object, NULL);
kasan_end_report(&flags);
}

static void print_address_description(struct kasan_access_info *info)
{
- const void *addr = info->access_addr;
+ void *addr = (void *)info->access_addr;
struct page *page = addr_to_page(addr);

if (page)
@@ -233,9 +262,9 @@ static void print_address_description(struct kasan_access_info *info)

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Moves page description after the stacks since it's less important.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andre...@google.com>
---
mm/kasan/report.c | 14 ++++++++------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/kasan/report.c b/mm/kasan/report.c
index 87f8293d7b79..09a5f5b4bc79 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/report.c
+++ b/mm/kasan/report.c
@@ -255,9 +255,6 @@ static void print_address_description(struct kasan_access_info *info)
void *addr = (void *)info->access_addr;
struct page *page = addr_to_page(addr);

- if (page)
- dump_page(page, "kasan: bad access detected");
-
dump_stack();

if (page && PageSlab(page)) {
@@ -267,9 +264,14 @@ static void print_address_description(struct kasan_access_info *info)

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Introduce get_shadow_bug_type() function, which determines bug type
based on the shadow value for a particular kernel address.
Introduce get_wild_bug_type() function, which determines bug type
for addresses which don't have a corresponding shadow value.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andre...@google.com>
---
mm/kasan/report.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/kasan/report.c b/mm/kasan/report.c
index f479365530b6..e3af37b7a74c 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/report.c
+++ b/mm/kasan/report.c
@@ -49,7 +49,13 @@ static const void *find_first_bad_addr(const void *addr, size_t size)
return first_bad_addr;
}

-static void print_error_description(struct kasan_access_info *info)
+static bool addr_has_shadow(struct kasan_access_info *info)
+{
+ return (info->access_addr >=
+ kasan_shadow_to_mem((void *)KASAN_SHADOW_START));
+}
+
+static const char *get_shadow_bug_type(struct kasan_access_info *info)
{
const char *bug_type = "unknown-crash";
u8 *shadow_addr;
@@ -96,6 +102,27 @@ static void print_error_description(struct kasan_access_info *info)
break;
}

+ return bug_type;
+}
+
+static const char *get_wild_bug_type(struct kasan_access_info *info)
+{
+ const char *bug_type;
+
+ if ((unsigned long)info->access_addr < PAGE_SIZE)
+ bug_type = "null-ptr-deref";
+ else if ((unsigned long)info->access_addr < TASK_SIZE)
+ bug_type = "user-memory-access";
+ else
+ bug_type = "wild-memory-access";
+
+ return bug_type;
+}
+
+static void print_error_description(struct kasan_access_info *info)
+{
+ const char *bug_type = get_shadow_bug_type(info);
+
pr_err("BUG: KASAN: %s in %pS at addr %p\n",
bug_type, (void *)info->ip,
info->access_addr);
@@ -265,18 +292,11 @@ static void print_shadow_for_address(const void *addr)
static void kasan_report_error(struct kasan_access_info *info)
{
unsigned long flags;
- const char *bug_type;

kasan_start_report(&flags);

- if (info->access_addr <
- kasan_shadow_to_mem((void *)KASAN_SHADOW_START)) {
- if ((unsigned long)info->access_addr < PAGE_SIZE)
- bug_type = "null-ptr-deref";
- else if ((unsigned long)info->access_addr < TASK_SIZE)
- bug_type = "user-memory-access";
- else
- bug_type = "wild-memory-access";
+ if (!addr_has_shadow(info)) {
+ const char *bug_type = get_wild_bug_type(info);
pr_err("BUG: KASAN: %s on address %p\n",
bug_type, info->access_addr);
pr_err("%s of size %zu by task %s/%d\n",
--
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Change stack traces headers from:

Allocated:
PID = 42

to:

Allocated by task 42:

Makes the report one line shorter and look better.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andre...@google.com>
---
mm/kasan/report.c | 10 ++++------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/kasan/report.c b/mm/kasan/report.c
index fc0577d15671..382d4d2b9052 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/report.c
+++ b/mm/kasan/report.c
@@ -175,9 +175,9 @@ static void kasan_end_report(unsigned long *flags)
kasan_enable_current();
}

-static void print_track(struct kasan_track *track)
+static void print_track(struct kasan_track *track, const char *prefix)
{
- pr_err("PID = %u\n", track->pid);
+ pr_err("%s by task %u:\n", prefix, track->pid);
if (track->stack) {
struct stack_trace trace;

@@ -199,10 +199,8 @@ static void kasan_object_err(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object)
if (!(cache->flags & SLAB_KASAN))
return;

- pr_err("Allocated:\n");
- print_track(&alloc_info->alloc_track);
- pr_err("Freed:\n");
- print_track(&alloc_info->free_track);
+ print_track(&alloc_info->alloc_track, "Allocated");
+ print_track(&alloc_info->free_track, "Freed");
}

void kasan_report_double_free(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object,
--
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Unify KASAN report header format for different kinds of bad memory
accesses. Makes the code simpler.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andre...@google.com>
---
mm/kasan/report.c | 26 +++++++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/kasan/report.c b/mm/kasan/report.c
index e3af37b7a74c..fc0577d15671 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/report.c
+++ b/mm/kasan/report.c
@@ -119,16 +119,22 @@ static const char *get_wild_bug_type(struct kasan_access_info *info)
return bug_type;
}

+static const char *get_bug_type(struct kasan_access_info *info)
+{
+ if (addr_has_shadow(info))
+ return get_shadow_bug_type(info);
+ return get_wild_bug_type(info);
+}
+
static void print_error_description(struct kasan_access_info *info)
{
- const char *bug_type = get_shadow_bug_type(info);
+ const char *bug_type = get_bug_type(info);

pr_err("BUG: KASAN: %s in %pS at addr %p\n",
- bug_type, (void *)info->ip,
- info->access_addr);
+ bug_type, (void *)info->ip, info->access_addr);
pr_err("%s of size %zu by task %s/%d\n",
- info->is_write ? "Write" : "Read",
- info->access_size, current->comm, task_pid_nr(current));
+ info->is_write ? "Write" : "Read", info->access_size,
+ current->comm, task_pid_nr(current));
}

static inline bool kernel_or_module_addr(const void *addr)

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Simplify logic for describing a memory address.
Add addr_to_page() helper function.

Makes the code easier to follow.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andre...@google.com>
---
mm/kasan/report.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++----------------
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/kasan/report.c b/mm/kasan/report.c
index 382d4d2b9052..f77341979dae 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/report.c
+++ b/mm/kasan/report.c
@@ -188,11 +188,17 @@ static void print_track(struct kasan_track *track, const char *prefix)
}
}

-static void kasan_object_err(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object)
+static struct page *addr_to_page(const void *addr)
+{
+ if ((addr >= (void *)PAGE_OFFSET) && (addr < high_memory))
+ return virt_to_head_page(addr);
+ return NULL;
+}
+
+static void describe_object(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object)
{
struct kasan_alloc_meta *alloc_info = get_alloc_info(cache, object);

- dump_stack();
pr_err("Object at %p, in cache %s size: %d\n", object, cache->name,
cache->object_size);

@@ -211,34 +217,32 @@ void kasan_report_double_free(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object,
kasan_start_report(&flags);
pr_err("BUG: Double free or freeing an invalid pointer\n");
pr_err("Unexpected shadow byte: 0x%hhX\n", shadow);
- kasan_object_err(cache, object);
+ dump_stack();
+ describe_object(cache, object);
kasan_end_report(&flags);
}

static void print_address_description(struct kasan_access_info *info)
{
const void *addr = info->access_addr;
+ struct page *page = addr_to_page(addr);

- if ((addr >= (void *)PAGE_OFFSET) &&
- (addr < high_memory)) {
- struct page *page = virt_to_head_page(addr);
-
- if (PageSlab(page)) {
- void *object;
- struct kmem_cache *cache = page->slab_cache;
- object = nearest_obj(cache, page,
- (void *)info->access_addr);
- kasan_object_err(cache, object);
- return;
- }
+ if (page)
dump_page(page, "kasan: bad access detected");
+
+ dump_stack();
+
+ if (page && PageSlab(page)) {
+ struct kmem_cache *cache = page->slab_cache;
+ void *object = nearest_obj(cache, page, (void *)addr);
+
+ describe_object(cache, object);
}

if (kernel_or_module_addr(addr)) {
if (!init_task_stack_addr(addr))
pr_err("Address belongs to variable %pS\n", addr);
}
- dump_stack();
}

static bool row_is_guilty(const void *row, const void *guilty)
--
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Makes the report easier to read.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andre...@google.com>
---
mm/kasan/report.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/kasan/report.c b/mm/kasan/report.c
index e5b762f4a6a4..2f3ff28b4d76 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/report.c
+++ b/mm/kasan/report.c
@@ -231,7 +231,9 @@ static void describe_object(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object,

if (cache->flags & SLAB_KASAN) {
print_track(&alloc_info->alloc_track, "Allocated");
+ pr_err("\n");
print_track(&alloc_info->free_track, "Freed");
+ pr_err("\n");
}

describe_object_addr(cache, object, addr);
@@ -242,6 +244,7 @@ static void print_address_description(void *addr)
struct page *page = addr_to_page(addr);

dump_stack();
+ pr_err("\n");

if (page && PageSlab(page)) {
struct kmem_cache *cache = page->slab_cache;
@@ -320,7 +323,9 @@ void kasan_report_double_free(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object,

kasan_start_report(&flags);
pr_err("BUG: KASAN: double-free or invalid-free in %pS\n", ip);
+ pr_err("\n");
print_address_description(object);
+ pr_err("\n");
print_shadow_for_address(object);
kasan_end_report(&flags);
}
@@ -332,11 +337,13 @@ static void kasan_report_error(struct kasan_access_info *info)
kasan_start_report(&flags);

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Changes double-free report header from:

BUG: Double free or freeing an invalid pointer
Unexpected shadow byte: 0xFB

to:

BUG: KASAN: double-free or invalid-free in kmalloc_oob_left+0xe5/0xef

This makes a bug uniquely identifiable by the first report line.
To account for removing of the unexpected shadow value, print shadow
bytes at the end of the report as in reports for other kinds of bugs.

To print caller funtion name in the report header, the caller address
is passed from SLUB/SLAB free handlers.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andre...@google.com>
---
include/linux/kasan.h | 2 +-
mm/kasan/kasan.c | 5 +++--
mm/kasan/kasan.h | 2 +-
mm/kasan/report.c | 30 ++++++++++++++----------------
mm/slab.c | 2 +-
mm/slub.c | 12 +++++++-----
6 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/kasan.h b/include/linux/kasan.h
index ceb3fe78a0d3..55604168f48f 100644
--- a/include/linux/kasan.h
+++ b/include/linux/kasan.h
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ void kasan_kmalloc(struct kmem_cache *s, const void *object, size_t size,
void kasan_krealloc(const void *object, size_t new_size, gfp_t flags);

void kasan_slab_alloc(struct kmem_cache *s, void *object, gfp_t flags);
-bool kasan_slab_free(struct kmem_cache *s, void *object);
+bool kasan_slab_free(struct kmem_cache *s, void *object, unsigned long pc);

struct kasan_cache {
int alloc_meta_offset;
diff --git a/mm/kasan/kasan.c b/mm/kasan/kasan.c
index 98b27195e38b..83cc011bb9bc 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/kasan.c
+++ b/mm/kasan/kasan.c
@@ -567,7 +567,8 @@ static void kasan_poison_slab_free(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object)
kasan_poison_shadow(object, rounded_up_size, KASAN_KMALLOC_FREE);
}

-bool kasan_slab_free(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object)
+bool kasan_slab_free(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object,
+ unsigned long pc)
{
s8 shadow_byte;

@@ -577,7 +578,7 @@ bool kasan_slab_free(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object)

shadow_byte = READ_ONCE(*(s8 *)kasan_mem_to_shadow(object));
if (shadow_byte < 0 || shadow_byte >= KASAN_SHADOW_SCALE_SIZE) {
- kasan_report_double_free(cache, object, shadow_byte);
+ kasan_report_double_free(cache, object, pc);
return true;
}

diff --git a/mm/kasan/kasan.h b/mm/kasan/kasan.h
index 1c260e6b3b3c..75729173ade9 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/kasan.h
+++ b/mm/kasan/kasan.h
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ static inline bool kasan_report_enabled(void)
void kasan_report(unsigned long addr, size_t size,
bool is_write, unsigned long ip);
void kasan_report_double_free(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object,
- s8 shadow);
+ void *ip);

#if defined(CONFIG_SLAB) || defined(CONFIG_SLUB)
void quarantine_put(struct kasan_free_meta *info, struct kmem_cache *cache);
diff --git a/mm/kasan/report.c b/mm/kasan/report.c
index 09a5f5b4bc79..e5b762f4a6a4 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/report.c
+++ b/mm/kasan/report.c
@@ -237,22 +237,8 @@ static void describe_object(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object,
describe_object_addr(cache, object, addr);
}

-void kasan_report_double_free(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object,
- s8 shadow)
-{
- unsigned long flags;
-
- kasan_start_report(&flags);
- pr_err("BUG: Double free or freeing an invalid pointer\n");
- pr_err("Unexpected shadow byte: 0x%hhX\n", shadow);
- dump_stack();
- describe_object(cache, object, NULL);
- kasan_end_report(&flags);
-}
-
-static void print_address_description(struct kasan_access_info *info)
+static void print_address_description(void *addr)
{
- void *addr = (void *)info->access_addr;
struct page *page = addr_to_page(addr);

dump_stack();
@@ -327,6 +313,18 @@ static void print_shadow_for_address(const void *addr)
}
}

+void kasan_report_double_free(struct kmem_cache *cache, void *object,
+ void *ip)
+{
+ unsigned long flags;
+
+ kasan_start_report(&flags);
+ pr_err("BUG: KASAN: double-free or invalid-free in %pS\n", ip);
+ print_address_description(object);
+ print_shadow_for_address(object);
+ kasan_end_report(&flags);
+}
+
static void kasan_report_error(struct kasan_access_info *info)
{
unsigned long flags;
@@ -338,7 +336,7 @@ static void kasan_report_error(struct kasan_access_info *info)
if (!addr_has_shadow(info)) {
dump_stack();
} else {
- print_address_description(info);
+ print_address_description((void *)info->access_addr);
print_shadow_for_address(info->first_bad_addr);
}

diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index 807d86c76908..aba5f30ea63e 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -3508,7 +3508,7 @@ static inline void __cache_free(struct kmem_cache *cachep, void *objp,
unsigned long caller)
{
/* Put the object into the quarantine, don't touch it for now. */
- if (kasan_slab_free(cachep, objp))
+ if (kasan_slab_free(cachep, objp, caller))
return;

___cache_free(cachep, objp, caller);
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 7f4bc7027ed5..763570a0b15e 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -1325,7 +1325,8 @@ static inline void kfree_hook(const void *x)
kasan_kfree_large(x);
}

-static inline void *slab_free_hook(struct kmem_cache *s, void *x)
+static inline void *slab_free_hook(struct kmem_cache *s, void *x,
+ unsigned long addr)
{
void *freeptr;

@@ -1354,12 +1355,13 @@ static inline void *slab_free_hook(struct kmem_cache *s, void *x)
* kasan_slab_free() may put x into memory quarantine, delaying its
* reuse. In this case the object's freelist pointer is changed.
*/
- kasan_slab_free(s, x);
+ kasan_slab_free(s, x, addr);
return freeptr;
}

static inline void slab_free_freelist_hook(struct kmem_cache *s,
- void *head, void *tail)
+ void *head, void *tail,
+ unsigned long addr)
{
/*
* Compiler cannot detect this function can be removed if slab_free_hook()
@@ -1376,7 +1378,7 @@ static inline void slab_free_freelist_hook(struct kmem_cache *s,
void *freeptr;

do {
- freeptr = slab_free_hook(s, object);
+ freeptr = slab_free_hook(s, object, addr);
} while ((object != tail_obj) && (object = freeptr));
#endif
}
@@ -2958,7 +2960,7 @@ static __always_inline void slab_free(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page,
void *head, void *tail, int cnt,
unsigned long addr)
{
- slab_free_freelist_hook(s, head, tail);
+ slab_free_freelist_hook(s, head, tail, addr);
/*
* slab_free_freelist_hook() could have put the items into quarantine.
* If so, no need to free them.
--
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Mar 6, 2017, 11:11:35 AM3/6/17
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That what access offset and object's size tells us.


> I think we can do (basically what Alexander suggested):
>
> Object at ffff880068388540 belongs to the cache kmalloc-128 of size 128
> Access 123 bytes inside of 128-byte region [ffff880068388540, ffff8800683885c0)

This is just wrong and therefore very confusing. The message says that we access 123 bytes,
while in fact we access x-bytes at offset 123. IOW 123 sounds like access size here not the offset.


> What do you think?
>

Not better.

Andrey Konovalov

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Mar 6, 2017, 12:05:30 PM3/6/17
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What about

Object at ffff880068388540 belongs to cache kmalloc-128 of size 128
Accessed address is 123 bytes inside of [ffff880068388540, ffff8800683885c0)

?

Andrey Konovalov

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Mar 6, 2017, 12:16:48 PM3/6/17
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Another alternative:

Accessed address is 123 bytes inside of [ffff880068388540, ffff8800683885c0)
Object belongs to cache kmalloc-128 of size 128

Andrey Ryabinin

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Mar 9, 2017, 7:55:36 AM3/9/17
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On 03/06/2017 08:16 PM, Andrey Konovalov wrote:

>>
>> What about
>>
>> Object at ffff880068388540 belongs to cache kmalloc-128 of size 128
>> Accessed address is 123 bytes inside of [ffff880068388540, ffff8800683885c0)
>>
>> ?
>
> Another alternative:
>
> Accessed address is 123 bytes inside of [ffff880068388540, ffff8800683885c0)
> Object belongs to cache kmalloc-128 of size 128
>

Is it something wrong with just printing offset at the end as I suggested earlier?
It's more compact and also more clear IMO.

Andrey Konovalov

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Mar 14, 2017, 1:15:42 PM3/14/17
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This is what you suggested:

Object at ffff880068388540, in cache kmalloc-128 size: 128 accessed at
offset 123

After minor reworking of punctuation, etc, we get:

Object at ffff880068388540, in cache kmalloc-128 of size 128, accessed
at offset 123

It's good, but I still don't like two things:

1. The line is quite long. Over 84 characters in this example, but
might be longer for different cache names. The solution would be to
split it into two lines.

2. The access might be within the object (for example use-after-free),
or outside the object (slab-out-of-bounds). In this case just saying
"accessed at offset X" might be confusing, since the offset might be
from the start of the object, or might be from the end. The solution
would be to specifically describe this.

Out of all options above this one I like the most:

>> Accessed address is 123 bytes inside of [ffff880068388540, ffff8800683885c0)
>> Object belongs to cache kmalloc-128 of size 128

as:

1. It specifies whether the offset is inside or outside the object.
2. The lines are not too long (the first one is 76 chars).
3. Accounts for larger cache names (the second line has some spare space).
4. Shows exact addresses of start and end of the object (it's possible
to calculate the end address using the start and the size, but it's
nicer to have it already calculated and shown).

Thanks!

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Andrey Ryabinin

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Mar 20, 2017, 11:38:27 AM3/20/17
to Andrey Konovalov, Alexander Potapenko, Dmitry Vyukov, kasan-dev, Linux Memory Management List, LKML
On 03/14/2017 08:15 PM, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 1:56 PM, Andrey Ryabinin <arya...@virtuozzo.com> wrote:
>> On 03/06/2017 08:16 PM, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>> What about
>>>>
>>>> Object at ffff880068388540 belongs to cache kmalloc-128 of size 128
>>>> Accessed address is 123 bytes inside of [ffff880068388540, ffff8800683885c0)
>>>>
>>>> ?
>>>
>>> Another alternative:
>>>
>>> Accessed address is 123 bytes inside of [ffff880068388540, ffff8800683885c0)
>>> Object belongs to cache kmalloc-128 of size 128
>>>
>>
>> Is it something wrong with just printing offset at the end as I suggested earlier?
>> It's more compact and also more clear IMO.
>
> This is what you suggested:
>
> Object at ffff880068388540, in cache kmalloc-128 size: 128 accessed at
> offset 123
>
> After minor reworking of punctuation, etc, we get:
>
> Object at ffff880068388540, in cache kmalloc-128 of size 128, accessed
> at offset 123
>
> It's good, but I still don't like two things:
>
> 1. The line is quite long. Over 84 characters in this example, but
> might be longer for different cache names. The solution would be to
> split it into two lines.

One line slightly larger than 80 chars is easier to read than
two IMO.

>
> 2. The access might be within the object (for example use-after-free),
> or outside the object (slab-out-of-bounds). In this case just saying
> "accessed at offset X" might be confusing, since the offset might be
> from the start of the object, or might be from the end. The solution
> would be to specifically describe this.
>

It's not confusing IMO.
It's pretty obvious that offset in the message "Object at <addr> ... accessed at offset <x>"
specifies the offset from the start of the object.


> Out of all options above this one I like the most:
>
>>> Accessed address is 123 bytes inside of [ffff880068388540, ffff8800683885c0)
>>> Object belongs to cache kmalloc-128 of size 128
>
> as:
>
> 1. It specifies whether the offset is inside or outside the object.

It doesn't really matter much whether is offset inside or outside.
Offset is only useful to identify what exactly struct/field accessed in situation like this:
x = a->b->c->d;
In other cases it usually just useless.

Also, note that you comparing access_addr against cache->object_size (which may be not equal to
the size requested by kmalloc)

+ if (access_addr < object_addr) {
+ rel_type = "to the left";
+ rel_bytes = object_addr - access_addr;
+ } else if (access_addr >= object_addr + cache->object_size) {
+ rel_type = "to the right";
+ rel_bytes = access_addr - (object_addr + cache->object_size);
+ } else {
+ rel_type = "inside";
+ rel_bytes = access_addr - object_addr;
+ }
+

So let's say we did kmalloc(100, GFP_KERNEL); This would mean that allocation
was from kmalloc-128 cache.

a) If we have off-by-one OOB access, we would see:
Accessed address is 100 bytes inside of [<start>, <start> + 128)
belongs to cache kmalloc-128 of size 128

b) And for the off-by-28 OOB, we would see:
Accessed address is 0 bytes to the right [<start>, <start> + 128)
belongs to cache kmalloc-128 of size 128

But I don't really see why we supposed to have different message for case a) b).

Comparing against requested size is possible only by looking into shadow. However that would
be complicated and also racy which means that you occasionally end up with some random numbers.

Also, I couldn't imagine why would anyone need to know the offset from the end of the object.

> 2. The lines are not too long (the first one is 76 chars).
> 3. Accounts for larger cache names (the second line has some spare space).
> 4. Shows exact addresses of start and end of the object (it's possible
> to calculate the end address using the start and the size, but it's
> nicer to have it already calculated and shown).

Come on we can do the simple math if needed.

Andrey Konovalov

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Mar 24, 2017, 3:31:57 PM3/24/17
to Andrey Ryabinin, Alexander Potapenko, Dmitry Vyukov, kasan-dev, Linux Memory Management List, LKML
On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 4:39 PM, Andrey Ryabinin
OK, makes sense.
I hope you don't mind if I put the offset at the next line.
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