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From: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
To: Chen Gang <chengang@emindsoft.com.cn>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>,
	Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
	kasan-dev <kasan-dev@googlegroups.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] include/linux/kasan.h: Notice about 0 for kasan_[dis/en]able_current()
Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 13:23:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAG_fn=W7m0UN6-38Ut0c-a_m4BfuUPjrmHQThGCLLqV-brKTmA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <572737FB.2020405@emindsoft.com.cn>

On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 1:20 PM, Chen Gang <chengang@emindsoft.com.cn> wrote:
> On 5/2/16 18:49, Alexander Potapenko wrote:
>> On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 7:35 AM,  <chengang@emindsoft.com.cn> wrote:
>>>
>>> According to their comments and the kasan_depth's initialization, if
>>> kasan_depth is zero, it means disable. So kasan_depth need consider
>>> about the 0 overflow.
>>>
>>> Also remove useless comments for dummy kasan_slab_free().
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com>
>>
>> Acked-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Nacked-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
>>
>
> OK, thanks.
Well, on a second thought I take that back, there still might be problems.
I haven't noticed the other CL, and was too hasty reviewing this one.

As kasan_disable_current() and kasan_enable_current() always go
together, we need to prevent nested calls to them from breaking
everything.
If we ignore some calls to kasan_disable_current() to prevent
overflows, the pairing calls to kasan_enable_current() will bring
|current->kasan_depth| to an invalid state.

E.g. if I'm understanding your idea correctly, after the following
sequence of calls:
  kasan_disable_current();  // #1
  kasan_disable_current();  // #2
  kasan_enable_current();  // #3
  kasan_enable_current();  // #4

the value of |current->kasan_depth| will be 2, so a single subsequent
call to kasan_disable_current() won't disable KASAN.

I think we'd better add BUG checks to bail out if the value of
|current->kasan_depth| is too big or too small.

> Another patch thread is also related with this patch thread, please help
> check.
>
> And sorry, originally, I did not let the 2 patches in one patches set.
>
> Thanks.
> --
> Chen Gang (陈刚)
>
> Managing Natural Environments is the Duty of Human Beings.



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  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-02 11:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-02  5:35 chengang
2016-05-02 10:49 ` Alexander Potapenko
2016-05-02 11:20   ` Chen Gang
2016-05-02 11:23     ` Alexander Potapenko [this message]
2016-05-02 12:40       ` Chen Gang

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