From: "Maciej Żenczykowski" <maze@google.com>
To: Maciej Wieczor-Retman <m.wieczorretman@pm.me>
Cc: joonki.min@samsung-slsi.corp-partner.google.com,
Kees Cook <keescook@google.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@google.com>,
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>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>,
Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>, Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
jiayuan.chen@linux.dev,
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Maciej Wieczor-Retman <maciej.wieczor-retman@intel.com>,
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Kernel hackers <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: KASAN vs realloc
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2026 13:42:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANP3RGeuRW53vukDy7WDO3FiVgu34-xVJYkfpm08oLO3odYFrA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
We've got internal reports (b/467571011 - from CC'ed Samsung
developer) that kasan realloc is broken for sizes that are not a
multiple of the granule. This appears to be triggered during Android
bootup by some ebpf program loading operations (a struct is 88 bytes
in size, which is a multiple of 8, but not 16, which is the granule
size).
(this is on 6.18 with
https://lore.kernel.org/all/38dece0a4074c43e48150d1e242f8242c73bf1a5.1764874575.git.m.wieczorretman@pm.me/
already included)
joonki.min@samsung-slsi.corp-partner.google.com summarized it as
"When newly requested size is not bigger than allocated size and old
size was not 16 byte aligned, it failed to unpoison extended area."
and *very* rough comment:
Right. "size - old_size" is not guaranteed 16-byte alignment in this case.
I think we may unpoison 16-byte alignment size, but it allowed more
than requested :(
I'm not sure that's right approach.
if (size <= alloced_size) {
- kasan_unpoison_vmalloc(p + old_size, size - old_size,
+ kasan_unpoison_vmalloc(p + old_size, round_up(size -
old_size, KASAN_GRANULE_SIZE),
KASAN_VMALLOC_PROT_NORMAL |
KASAN_VMALLOC_VM_ALLOC |
KASAN_VMALLOC_KEEP_TAG);
/*
* No need to zero memory here, as unused memory will have
* already been zeroed at initial allocation time or during
* realloc shrink time.
*/
- vm->requested_size = size;
+ vm->requested_size = round_up(size, KASAN_GRANULE_SIZE);
my personal guess is that
But just above the code you quoted in mm/vmalloc.c I see:
if (size <= old_size) {
...
kasan_poison_vmalloc(p + size, old_size - size);
is also likely wrong?? Considering:
mm/kasan/shadow.c
void __kasan_poison_vmalloc(const void *start, unsigned long size)
{
if (!is_vmalloc_or_module_addr(start))
return;
size = round_up(size, KASAN_GRANULE_SIZE);
kasan_poison(start, size, KASAN_VMALLOC_INVALID, false);
}
This doesn't look right - if start isn't a multiple of the granule.
--
Maciej Żenczykowski, Kernel Networking Developer @ Google
next reply other threads:[~2026-01-06 12:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-06 12:42 Maciej Żenczykowski [this message]
2026-01-07 20:28 ` Kees Cook
2026-01-07 20:47 ` Maciej Wieczor-Retman
2026-01-07 21:47 ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2026-01-07 21:50 ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2026-01-07 21:55 ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2026-01-09 18:55 ` Maciej Wieczor-Retman
2026-01-09 20:05 ` Maciej Żenczykowski
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