From:   andrey.konovalov@linux.dev
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>,
        Marco Elver <elver@google.com>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>,
        kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>,
        Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH mm] kasan: reset page tags properly with sampling
Date:   Tue, 24 Jan 2023 21:35:26 +0100
Message-Id: <24ea20c1b19c2b4b56cf9f5b354915f8dbccfc77.1674592496.git.andreyknvl@google.com>
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From: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>

The implementation of page_alloc poisoning sampling assumed that
tag_clear_highpage resets page tags for __GFP_ZEROTAGS allocations.
However, this is no longer the case since commit 70c248aca9e7
("mm: kasan: Skip unpoisoning of user pages").

This leads to kernel crashes when MTE-enabled userspace mappings are
used with Hardware Tag-Based KASAN enabled.

Reset page tags for __GFP_ZEROTAGS allocations in post_alloc_hook().

Also clarify and fix related comments.

Reported-by: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Tested-by: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
---
 mm/page_alloc.c | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 5514d84cc712..370d4f2c0276 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -2471,7 +2471,7 @@ inline void post_alloc_hook(struct page *page, unsigned int order,
 	bool init = !want_init_on_free() && want_init_on_alloc(gfp_flags) &&
 			!should_skip_init(gfp_flags);
 	bool zero_tags = init && (gfp_flags & __GFP_ZEROTAGS);
-	bool reset_tags = !zero_tags;
+	bool reset_tags = true;
 	int i;
 
 	set_page_private(page, 0);
@@ -2498,7 +2498,7 @@ inline void post_alloc_hook(struct page *page, unsigned int order,
 	 * (which happens only when memory should be initialized as well).
 	 */
 	if (zero_tags) {
-		/* Initialize both memory and tags. */
+		/* Initialize both memory and memory tags. */
 		for (i = 0; i != 1 << order; ++i)
 			tag_clear_highpage(page + i);
 
@@ -2516,14 +2516,14 @@ inline void post_alloc_hook(struct page *page, unsigned int order,
 		} else {
 			/*
 			 * KASAN decided to exclude this allocation from being
-			 * poisoned due to sampling. Skip poisoning as well.
+			 * unpoisoned due to sampling. Skip poisoning as well.
 			 */
 			SetPageSkipKASanPoison(page);
 		}
 	}
 	/*
-	 * If memory tags have not been set, reset the page tags to ensure
-	 * page_address() dereferencing does not fault.
+	 * If memory tags have not been set by KASAN, reset the page tags to
+	 * ensure page_address() dereferencing does not fault.
 	 */
 	if (reset_tags) {
 		for (i = 0; i != 1 << order; ++i)
-- 
2.25.1