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kasan: documentation updates
Update KASAN documentation:
- Bump Clang version requirement for HW_TAGS as ARM64_MTE depends on
AS_HAS_LSE_ATOMICS as of commit 2decad92f4
("arm64: mte: Ensure
TIF_MTE_ASYNC_FAULT is set atomically"), which requires Clang 12.
- Add description of the new kasan.vmalloc command line flag.
- Mention that SW_TAGS and HW_TAGS modes now support vmalloc tagging.
- Explicitly say that the "Shadow memory" section is only applicable to
software KASAN modes.
- Mention that shadow-based KASAN_VMALLOC is supported on arm64.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a61189128fa3f9fbcfd9884ff653d401864b8e74.1643047180.git.andreyknvl@google.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Evgenii Stepanov <eugenis@google.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Software tag-based KASAN mode is only supported in Clang.
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The hardware KASAN mode (#3) relies on hardware to perform the checks but
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still requires a compiler version that supports memory tagging instructions.
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This mode is supported in GCC 10+ and Clang 11+.
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This mode is supported in GCC 10+ and Clang 12+.
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Both software KASAN modes work with SLUB and SLAB memory allocators,
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while the hardware tag-based KASAN currently only supports SLUB.
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@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ additional boot parameters that allow disabling KASAN or controlling features:
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Asymmetric mode: a bad access is detected synchronously on reads and
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asynchronously on writes.
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- ``kasan.vmalloc=off`` or ``=on`` disables or enables tagging of vmalloc
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allocations (default: ``on``).
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- ``kasan.stacktrace=off`` or ``=on`` disables or enables alloc and free stack
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traces collection (default: ``on``).
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@ -279,8 +282,8 @@ Software tag-based KASAN uses 0xFF as a match-all pointer tag (accesses through
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pointers with the 0xFF pointer tag are not checked). The value 0xFE is currently
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reserved to tag freed memory regions.
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Software tag-based KASAN currently only supports tagging of slab and page_alloc
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memory.
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Software tag-based KASAN currently only supports tagging of slab, page_alloc,
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and vmalloc memory.
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Hardware tag-based KASAN
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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@ -303,8 +306,8 @@ Hardware tag-based KASAN uses 0xFF as a match-all pointer tag (accesses through
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pointers with the 0xFF pointer tag are not checked). The value 0xFE is currently
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reserved to tag freed memory regions.
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Hardware tag-based KASAN currently only supports tagging of slab and page_alloc
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memory.
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Hardware tag-based KASAN currently only supports tagging of slab, page_alloc,
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and VM_ALLOC-based vmalloc memory.
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If the hardware does not support MTE (pre ARMv8.5), hardware tag-based KASAN
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will not be enabled. In this case, all KASAN boot parameters are ignored.
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@ -319,6 +322,8 @@ checking gets disabled.
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Shadow memory
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-------------
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The contents of this section are only applicable to software KASAN modes.
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The kernel maps memory in several different parts of the address space.
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The range of kernel virtual addresses is large: there is not enough real
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memory to support a real shadow region for every address that could be
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@ -349,7 +354,7 @@ CONFIG_KASAN_VMALLOC
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With ``CONFIG_KASAN_VMALLOC``, KASAN can cover vmalloc space at the
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cost of greater memory usage. Currently, this is supported on x86,
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riscv, s390, and powerpc.
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arm64, riscv, s390, and powerpc.
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This works by hooking into vmalloc and vmap and dynamically
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allocating real shadow memory to back the mappings.
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