Re: [PATCH v8 2/3] mm, kasan: align free_meta_offset on sizeof(void*)

[Andrey Ryabinin]

On 08/01/2016 05:56 PM, Alexander Potapenko wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 4:55 PM, Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 07/28/2016 06:31 PM, Alexander Potapenko wrote:
>>> When free_meta_offset is not zero, it is usually aligned on 4 bytes,
>>> because the size of preceding kasan_alloc_meta is aligned on 4 bytes.
>>> As a result, accesses to kasan_free_meta fields may be misaligned.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>>  mm/kasan/kasan.c | 3 ++-
>>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/mm/kasan/kasan.c b/mm/kasan/kasan.c
>>> index 6845f92..0379551 100644
>>> --- a/mm/kasan/kasan.c
>>> +++ b/mm/kasan/kasan.c
>>> @@ -390,7 +390,8 @@ void kasan_cache_create(struct kmem_cache *cache, size_t *size,
>>>       /* Add free meta. */
>>>       if (cache->flags & SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU || cache->ctor ||
>>>           cache->object_size < sizeof(struct kasan_free_meta)) {
>>> -             cache->kasan_info.free_meta_offset = *size;
>>> +             cache->kasan_info.free_meta_offset =
>>> +                     ALIGN(*size, sizeof(void *));
>>
>> This cannot work.
> Well, it does, at least on my tests.

JFYI. You aligned only meta offset, but didn't change the size, so after the '*size += sizeof(struct kasan_free_meta);'
*size may point into the middle of free_meta struct.
Plus, alignment wasn't taken into account in kasan_metadata_size().