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From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>, Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>,
	Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
	kasan-dev <kasan-dev@googlegroups.com>,
	Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS=y not play well with kmemleak
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 12:15:56 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190211121554.GB165128@arrakis.emea.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAeHK+wsULxYXnGJnQXx9HjZMiU-5jb5ZKC+TuGQihc9L386Xg@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 06:15:02PM +0100, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 5:16 AM Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw> wrote:
> > Kmemleak is totally busted with CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS=y because most of tracking
> > object pointers passed to create_object() have the upper bits set by KASAN.
> 
> Yeah, the issue is that kmemleak performs a bunch of pointer
> comparisons that break when pointers are tagged.

Does it mean that the kmemleak API receives pointer aliases (i.e. same
object tagged with different values or tagged/untagged)?

-- 
Catalin


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-02-11 12:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-07  4:04 CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS=y NULL pointer dereference at freelist_dereference() Qian Cai
2019-02-07 12:58 ` Andrey Konovalov
2019-02-07 13:27   ` Qian Cai
2019-02-07 15:34     ` Andrey Konovalov
2019-02-08  0:30       ` Qian Cai
2019-02-08  4:16         ` CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS=y not play well with kmemleak Qian Cai
2019-02-08 17:15           ` Andrey Konovalov
2019-02-09  2:17             ` Qian Cai
2019-02-11 12:15             ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2019-02-11 18:52               ` Andrey Konovalov

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