Re: [4.7+] various memory corruption reports.

From: Andrey Ryabinin
Date: Mon Aug 01 2016 - 08:03:10 EST


On 07/29/2016 09:39 PM, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 08:56:08PM +0300, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
>
> > >> > I suspect this is false positives due to changes in KASAN.
> > >> > Bisection probably will point to
> > >> > 80a9201a5965f4715d5c09790862e0df84ce0614 ("mm, kasan: switch SLUB to
> > >> > stackdepot, enable memory quarantine for SLUB)"
> > >>
> > >> good call. reverting that changeset seems to have solved it.
> > > Could you please try with this?
> > Actually, this is not quite right, it should be like this:
>
>
> Seems to have stopped the corruption, but now I get NMi watchdog traces..
>
>

This should help:

---
mm/kasan/kasan.c | 4 ++--
mm/kasan/quarantine.c | 8 ++++++--
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/kasan/kasan.c b/mm/kasan/kasan.c
index 3019cec..c99ef40 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/kasan.c
+++ b/mm/kasan/kasan.c
@@ -565,7 +565,7 @@ void kasan_kmalloc(struct kmem_cache *cache, const void *object, size_t size,
unsigned long redzone_start;
unsigned long redzone_end;

- if (flags & __GFP_RECLAIM)
+ if (gfpflags_allow_blocking(flags))
quarantine_reduce();

if (unlikely(object == NULL))
@@ -596,7 +596,7 @@ void kasan_kmalloc_large(const void *ptr, size_t size, gfp_t flags)
unsigned long redzone_start;
unsigned long redzone_end;

- if (flags & __GFP_RECLAIM)
+ if (gfpflags_allow_blocking(flags))
quarantine_reduce();

if (unlikely(ptr == NULL))
diff --git a/mm/kasan/quarantine.c b/mm/kasan/quarantine.c
index 65793f1..4852625 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/quarantine.c
+++ b/mm/kasan/quarantine.c
@@ -147,10 +147,14 @@ static void qlink_free(struct qlist_node *qlink, struct kmem_cache *cache)
struct kasan_alloc_meta *alloc_info = get_alloc_info(cache, object);
unsigned long flags;

- local_irq_save(flags);
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SLAB))
+ local_irq_save(flags);
+
alloc_info->state = KASAN_STATE_FREE;
___cache_free(cache, object, _THIS_IP_);
- local_irq_restore(flags);
+
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SLAB))
+ local_irq_restore(flags);
}

static void qlist_free_all(struct qlist_head *q, struct kmem_cache *cache)
--
2.7.3