From: Maciej Wieczor-Retman <m.wieczorretman@pm.me>
To: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>,
Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>,
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: m.wieczorretman@pm.me,
Maciej Wieczor-Retman <maciej.wieczor-retman@intel.com>,
kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: [PATCH v7 14/15] x86/kasan: Logical bit shift for kasan_mem_to_shadow
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2025 17:30:14 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4dd0d4481bbd89d04bcc85a37a1b9d4ec08522c4.1765386422.git.m.wieczorretman@pm.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1765386422.git.m.wieczorretman@pm.me>
From: Maciej Wieczor-Retman <maciej.wieczor-retman@intel.com>
The tag-based KASAN adopts an arithemitc bit shift to convert a memory
address to a shadow memory address. While it makes a lot of sense on
arm64, it doesn't work well for all cases on x86 - either the
non-canonical hook becomes quite complex for different paging levels, or
the inline mode would need a lot more adjustments. Thus the best working
scheme is the logical bit shift and non-canonical shadow offset that x86
uses for generic KASAN, of course adjusted for the increased granularity
from 8 to 16 bytes.
Add an arch specific implementation of kasan_mem_to_shadow() that uses
the logical bit shift.
The non-canonical hook tries to calculate whether an address came from
kasan_mem_to_shadow(). First it checks whether this address fits into
the legal set of values possible to output from the mem to shadow
function.
Tie both generic and tag-based x86 KASAN modes to the address range
check associated with generic KASAN.
Signed-off-by: Maciej Wieczor-Retman <maciej.wieczor-retman@intel.com>
---
Changelog v7:
- Redo the patch message and add a comment to __kasan_mem_to_shadow() to
provide better explanation on why x86 doesn't work well with the
arithemitc bit shift approach (Marco).
Changelog v4:
- Add this patch to the series.
arch/x86/include/asm/kasan.h | 15 +++++++++++++++
mm/kasan/report.c | 5 +++--
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kasan.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kasan.h
index 6e083d45770d..395e133d551d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kasan.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kasan.h
@@ -49,6 +49,21 @@
#include <linux/bits.h>
#ifdef CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS
+/*
+ * Using the non-arch specific implementation of __kasan_mem_to_shadow() with a
+ * arithmetic bit shift can cause high code complexity in KASAN's non-canonical
+ * hook for x86 or might not work for some paging level and KASAN mode
+ * combinations. The inline mode compiler support could also suffer from higher
+ * complexity for no specific benefit. Therefore the generic mode's logical
+ * shift implementation is used.
+ */
+static inline void *__kasan_mem_to_shadow(const void *addr)
+{
+ return (void *)((unsigned long)addr >> KASAN_SHADOW_SCALE_SHIFT)
+ + KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET;
+}
+
+#define kasan_mem_to_shadow(addr) __kasan_mem_to_shadow(addr)
#define __tag_shifted(tag) FIELD_PREP(GENMASK_ULL(60, 57), tag)
#define __tag_reset(addr) (sign_extend64((u64)(addr), 56))
#define __tag_get(addr) ((u8)FIELD_GET(GENMASK_ULL(60, 57), (u64)addr))
diff --git a/mm/kasan/report.c b/mm/kasan/report.c
index b5beb1b10bd2..db6a9a3d01b2 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/report.c
+++ b/mm/kasan/report.c
@@ -642,13 +642,14 @@ void kasan_non_canonical_hook(unsigned long addr)
const char *bug_type;
/*
- * For Generic KASAN, kasan_mem_to_shadow() uses the logical right shift
+ * For Generic KASAN and Software Tag-Based mode on the x86
+ * architecture, kasan_mem_to_shadow() uses the logical right shift
* and never overflows with the chosen KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET values (on
* both x86 and arm64). Thus, the possible shadow addresses (even for
* bogus pointers) belong to a single contiguous region that is the
* result of kasan_mem_to_shadow() applied to the whole address space.
*/
- if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC)) {
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC) || IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_64)) {
if (addr < (unsigned long)kasan_mem_to_shadow((void *)(0ULL)) ||
addr > (unsigned long)kasan_mem_to_shadow((void *)(~0ULL)))
return;
--
2.52.0
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-12-10 17:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-10 17:14 [PATCH v7 00/15] kasan: x86: arm64: KASAN tag-based mode for x86 Maciej Wieczor-Retman
2025-12-10 17:28 ` [PATCH v7 01/15] kasan: sw_tags: Use arithmetic shift for shadow computation Maciej Wieczor-Retman
2025-12-10 17:28 ` [PATCH v7 02/15] kasan: arm64: x86: Make special tags arch specific Maciej Wieczor-Retman
2025-12-10 17:29 ` [PATCH v7 04/15] x86/kasan: Add arch specific kasan functions Maciej Wieczor-Retman
2025-12-10 17:29 ` [PATCH v7 06/15] mm/execmem: Untag addresses in EXECMEM_ROX related pointer arithmetic Maciej Wieczor-Retman
2025-12-10 17:30 ` Maciej Wieczor-Retman [this message]
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