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kfence: fix stack trace pruning
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Commit b140513 ("mm/sl[au]b: generalize kmalloc subsystem")
refactored large parts of the kmalloc subsystem, resulting in the stack
trace pruning logic done by KFENCE to no longer work.

While b140513 attempted to fix the situation by including
'__kmem_cache_free' in the list of functions KFENCE should skip through,
this only works when the compiler actually optimized the tail call from
kfree() to __kmem_cache_free() into a jump (and thus kfree() _not_
appearing in the full stack trace to begin with).

In some configurations, the compiler no longer optimizes the tail call
into a jump, and __kmem_cache_free() appears in the stack trace.  This
means that the pruned stack trace shown by KFENCE would include kfree()
which is not intended - for example:

 | BUG: KFENCE: invalid free in kfree+0x7c/0x120
 |
 | Invalid free of 0xffff8883ed8fefe0 (in kfence-torvalds#126):
 |  kfree+0x7c/0x120
 |  test_double_free+0x116/0x1a9
 |  kunit_try_run_case+0x90/0xd0
 | [...]

Fix it by moving __kmem_cache_free() to the list of functions that may be
tail called by an allocator entry function, making the pruning logic work
in both the optimized and unoptimized tail call cases.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Fixes: b140513 ("mm/sl[au]b: generalize kmalloc subsystem")
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko <[email protected]>
Cc: Hyeonggon Yoo <[email protected]>
Cc: Feng Tang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
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melver authored and akpm00 committed Nov 18, 2022
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13 changes: 9 additions & 4 deletions mm/kfence/report.c
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Expand Up @@ -75,18 +75,23 @@ static int get_stack_skipnr(const unsigned long stack_entries[], int num_entries

if (str_has_prefix(buf, ARCH_FUNC_PREFIX "kfence_") ||
str_has_prefix(buf, ARCH_FUNC_PREFIX "__kfence_") ||
str_has_prefix(buf, ARCH_FUNC_PREFIX "__kmem_cache_free") ||
!strncmp(buf, ARCH_FUNC_PREFIX "__slab_free", len)) {
/*
* In case of tail calls from any of the below
* to any of the above.
* In case of tail calls from any of the below to any of
* the above, optimized by the compiler such that the
* stack trace would omit the initial entry point below.
*/
fallback = skipnr + 1;
}

/* Also the *_bulk() variants by only checking prefixes. */
/*
* The below list should only include the initial entry points
* into the slab allocators. Includes the *_bulk() variants by
* checking prefixes.
*/
if (str_has_prefix(buf, ARCH_FUNC_PREFIX "kfree") ||
str_has_prefix(buf, ARCH_FUNC_PREFIX "kmem_cache_free") ||
str_has_prefix(buf, ARCH_FUNC_PREFIX "__kmem_cache_free") ||
str_has_prefix(buf, ARCH_FUNC_PREFIX "__kmalloc") ||
str_has_prefix(buf, ARCH_FUNC_PREFIX "kmem_cache_alloc"))
goto found;
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