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| author | Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> | 2021-04-29 23:00:30 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-04-30 11:20:42 -0700 |
| commit | a6c18d4e763873e900b8932211a3f66589f943a2 (patch) | |
| tree | e56c5b0da5bb43e6509a41eaef5e31b4aae04014 /Documentation/dev-tools | |
| parent | b8191d7d57e86eda934ef82081c294e6a184b000 (diff) | |
kasan: docs: update SW_TAGS implementation details section
Update the "Implementation details" section for SW_TAGS KASAN:
- Clarify the introduction sentence.
- Punctuation, readability, and other minor clean-ups.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/69b9b2e49d8cf789358fa24558be3fc0ce4ee32c.1615559068.git.andreyknvl@google.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/dev-tools')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst | 39 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst index 027878f92291..69f384b0c2d3 100644 --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst @@ -244,38 +244,37 @@ quarantine (see mm/kasan/quarantine.c for implementation). Software tag-based KASAN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Software tag-based KASAN requires software memory tagging support in the form -of HWASan-like compiler instrumentation (see HWASan documentation for details). - -Software tag-based KASAN is currently only implemented for arm64 architecture. +Software tag-based KASAN uses a software memory tagging approach to checking +access validity. It is currently only implemented for the arm64 architecture. Software tag-based KASAN uses the Top Byte Ignore (TBI) feature of arm64 CPUs -to store a pointer tag in the top byte of kernel pointers. Like generic KASAN -it uses shadow memory to store memory tags associated with each 16-byte memory -cell (therefore it dedicates 1/16th of the kernel memory for shadow memory). +to store a pointer tag in the top byte of kernel pointers. It uses shadow memory +to store memory tags associated with each 16-byte memory cell (therefore, it +dedicates 1/16th of the kernel memory for shadow memory). -On each memory allocation software tag-based KASAN generates a random tag, tags -the allocated memory with this tag, and embeds this tag into the returned +On each memory allocation, software tag-based KASAN generates a random tag, tags +the allocated memory with this tag, and embeds the same tag into the returned pointer. Software tag-based KASAN uses compile-time instrumentation to insert checks -before each memory access. These checks make sure that tag of the memory that -is being accessed is equal to tag of the pointer that is used to access this -memory. In case of a tag mismatch software tag-based KASAN prints a bug report. +before each memory access. These checks make sure that the tag of the memory +that is being accessed is equal to the tag of the pointer that is used to access +this memory. In case of a tag mismatch, software tag-based KASAN prints a bug +report. -Software tag-based KASAN also has two instrumentation modes (outline, that -emits callbacks to check memory accesses; and inline, that performs the shadow +Software tag-based KASAN also has two instrumentation modes (outline, which +emits callbacks to check memory accesses; and inline, which performs the shadow memory checks inline). With outline instrumentation mode, a bug report is -simply printed from the function that performs the access check. With inline -instrumentation a brk instruction is emitted by the compiler, and a dedicated -brk handler is used to print bug reports. +printed from the function that performs the access check. With inline +instrumentation, a ``brk`` instruction is emitted by the compiler, and a +dedicated ``brk`` handler is used to print bug reports. Software tag-based KASAN uses 0xFF as a match-all pointer tag (accesses through -pointers with 0xFF pointer tag aren't checked). The value 0xFE is currently +pointers with the 0xFF pointer tag are not checked). The value 0xFE is currently reserved to tag freed memory regions. -Software tag-based KASAN currently only supports tagging of -kmem_cache_alloc/kmalloc and page_alloc memory. +Software tag-based KASAN currently only supports tagging of slab and page_alloc +memory. Hardware tag-based KASAN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |