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When the kernel is built with CONFIG_KASAN_HW_TAGS and the CPU supports
MTE, memory accesses are checked at 16-byte granularity, and
out-of-bounds accesses can result in tag check faults. Our current
implementation of strlen() makes unaligned 16-byte accesses (within a
naturally aligned 4096-byte window), and can trigger tag check faults.
This can be seen at boot time, e.g.
| BUG: KASAN: invalid-access in __pi_strlen+0x14/0x150
| Read at addr f4ff0000c0028300 by task swapper/0/0
| Pointer tag: [f4], memory tag: [fe]
|
| CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.13.0-09550-g03c2813535a2-dirty #20
| Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
| Call trace:
| dump_backtrace+0x0/0x1b0
| show_stack+0x1c/0x30
| dump_stack_lvl+0x68/0x84
| print_address_description+0x7c/0x2b4
| kasan_report+0x138/0x38c
| __do_kernel_fault+0x190/0x1c4
| do_tag_check_fault+0x78/0x90
| do_mem_abort+0x44/0xb4
| el1_abort+0x40/0x60
| el1h_64_sync_handler+0xb0/0xd0
| el1h_64_sync+0x78/0x7c
| __pi_strlen+0x14/0x150
| __register_sysctl_table+0x7c4/0x890
| register_leaf_sysctl_tables+0x1a4/0x210
| register_leaf_sysctl_tables+0xc8/0x210
| __register_sysctl_paths+0x22c/0x290
| register_sysctl_table+0x2c/0x40
| sysctl_init+0x20/0x30
| proc_sys_init+0x3c/0x48
| proc_root_init+0x80/0x9c
| start_kernel+0x640/0x69c
| __primary_switched+0xc0/0xc8
To fix this, we can reduce the (strlen-internal) MIN_PAGE_SIZE to 16
bytes when CONFIG_KASAN_HW_TAGS is selected. This will cause strlen() to
align the base pointer downwards to a 16-byte boundary, and to discard
the additional prefix bytes without counting them. All subsequent
accesses will be 16-byte aligned 16-byte LDPs. While the comments say
the body of the loop will access 32 bytes, this is performed as two
16-byte acceses, with the second made only if the first did not
encounter a NUL byte, so the body of the loop will not over-read across
a 16-byte boundary.
No other string routines are affected. The other str*() routines will
not make any access which straddles a 16-byte boundary, and the mem*()
routines will only make acceses which straddle a 16-byte boundary when
which is entirely within the bounds of the relevant base and size
arguments.
Fixes: 325a1de812 ("arm64: Import updated version of Cortex Strings' strlen")
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210712090043.20847-1-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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