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kmemleak: fix kmemleak false positive report with HW tag-based kasan enable 

With HW tag-based kasan enable, We will get the warning when we free
object whose address starts with 0xFF.

It is because kmemleak rbtree stores tagged object and this freeing
object's tag does not match with rbtree object.

In the example below, kmemleak rbtree stores the tagged object in the
kmalloc(), and kfree() gets the pointer with 0xFF tag.

Call sequence:
    ptr = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
    page = virt_to_page(ptr);
    offset = offset_in_page(ptr);
    kfree(page_address(page) + offset);
    ptr = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);

A sequence like that may cause the warning as following:

 1) Freeing unknown object:

    In kfree(), we will get free unknown object warning in
    kmemleak_free(). Because object(0xFx) in kmemleak rbtree and
    pointer(0xFF) in kfree() have different tag.

 2) Overlap existing:

    When we allocate that object with the same hw-tag again, we will
    find the overlap in the kmemleak rbtree and kmemleak thread will be
    killed.

	kmemleak: Freeing unknown object at 0xffff000003f88000
	CPU: 5 PID: 177 Comm: cat Not tainted 5.16.0-rc1-dirty #21
	Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
	Call trace:
	 dump_backtrace+0x0/0x1ac
	 show_stack+0x1c/0x30
	 dump_stack_lvl+0x68/0x84
	 dump_stack+0x1c/0x38
	 kmemleak_free+0x6c/0x70
	 slab_free_freelist_hook+0x104/0x200
	 kmem_cache_free+0xa8/0x3d4
	 test_version_show+0x270/0x3a0
	 module_attr_show+0x28/0x40
	 sysfs_kf_seq_show+0xb0/0x130
	 kernfs_seq_show+0x30/0x40
	 seq_read_iter+0x1bc/0x4b0
	 seq_read_iter+0x1bc/0x4b0
	 kernfs_fop_read_iter+0x144/0x1c0
	 generic_file_splice_read+0xd0/0x184
	 do_splice_to+0x90/0xe0
	 splice_direct_to_actor+0xb8/0x250
	 do_splice_direct+0x88/0xd4
	 do_sendfile+0x2b0/0x344
	 __arm64_sys_sendfile64+0x164/0x16c
	 invoke_syscall+0x48/0x114
	 el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x44/0xec
	 do_el0_svc+0x74/0x90
	 el0_svc+0x20/0x80
	 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x1a8/0x1b0
	 el0t_64_sync+0x1ac/0x1b0
	...
	kmemleak: Cannot insert 0xf2ff000003f88000 into the object search tree (overlaps existing)
	CPU: 5 PID: 178 Comm: cat Not tainted 5.16.0-rc1-dirty #21
	Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
	Call trace:
	 dump_backtrace+0x0/0x1ac
	 show_stack+0x1c/0x30
	 dump_stack_lvl+0x68/0x84
	 dump_stack+0x1c/0x38
	 create_object.isra.0+0x2d8/0x2fc
	 kmemleak_alloc+0x34/0x40
	 kmem_cache_alloc+0x23c/0x2f0
	 test_version_show+0x1fc/0x3a0
	 module_attr_show+0x28/0x40
	 sysfs_kf_seq_show+0xb0/0x130
	 kernfs_seq_show+0x30/0x40
	 seq_read_iter+0x1bc/0x4b0
	 kernfs_fop_read_iter+0x144/0x1c0
	 generic_file_splice_read+0xd0/0x184
	 do_splice_to+0x90/0xe0
	 splice_direct_to_actor+0xb8/0x250
	 do_splice_direct+0x88/0xd4
	 do_sendfile+0x2b0/0x344
	 __arm64_sys_sendfile64+0x164/0x16c
	 invoke_syscall+0x48/0x114
	 el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x44/0xec
	 do_el0_svc+0x74/0x90
	 el0_svc+0x20/0x80
	 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x1a8/0x1b0
	 el0t_64_sync+0x1ac/0x1b0
	kmemleak: Kernel memory leak detector disabled
	kmemleak: Object 0xf2ff000003f88000 (size 128):
	kmemleak:   comm "cat", pid 177, jiffies 4294921177
	kmemleak:   min_count = 1
	kmemleak:   count = 0
	kmemleak:   flags = 0x1
	kmemleak:   checksum = 0
	kmemleak:   backtrace:
	     kmem_cache_alloc+0x23c/0x2f0
	     test_version_show+0x1fc/0x3a0
	     module_attr_show+0x28/0x40
	     sysfs_kf_seq_show+0xb0/0x130
	     kernfs_seq_show+0x30/0x40
	     seq_read_iter+0x1bc/0x4b0
	     kernfs_fop_read_iter+0x144/0x1c0
	     generic_file_splice_read+0xd0/0x184
	     do_splice_to+0x90/0xe0
	     splice_direct_to_actor+0xb8/0x250
	     do_splice_direct+0x88/0xd4
	     do_sendfile+0x2b0/0x344
	     __arm64_sys_sendfile64+0x164/0x16c
	     invoke_syscall+0x48/0x114
	     el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x44/0xec
	     do_el0_svc+0x74/0x90
	kmemleak: Automatic memory scanning thread ended

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: whitespace tweak]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211118054426.4123-1-Kuan-Ying.Lee@mediatek.comSigned-off-by: default avatarKuan-Ying Lee <Kuan-Ying.Lee@mediatek.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Doug Berger <opendmb@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent c29b5b3d
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mm/kmemleak.c
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......@@ -381,15 +381,20 @@ static void dump_object_info(struct kmemleak_object *object)
static struct kmemleak_object *lookup_object(unsigned long ptr, int alias)
{
struct rb_node *rb = object_tree_root.rb_node;
unsigned long untagged_ptr = (unsigned long)kasan_reset_tag((void *)ptr);
while (rb) {
struct kmemleak_object *object =
rb_entry(rb, struct kmemleak_object, rb_node);
if (ptr < object->pointer)
struct kmemleak_object *object;
unsigned long untagged_objp;
object = rb_entry(rb, struct kmemleak_object, rb_node);
untagged_objp = (unsigned long)kasan_reset_tag((void *)object->pointer);
if (untagged_ptr < untagged_objp)
rb = object->rb_node.rb_left;
else if (object->pointer + object->size <= ptr)
else if (untagged_objp + object->size <= untagged_ptr)
rb = object->rb_node.rb_right;
else if (object->pointer == ptr || alias)
else if (untagged_objp == untagged_ptr || alias)
return object;
else {
kmemleak_warn("Found object by alias at 0x%08lx\n",
......@@ -576,6 +581,7 @@ static struct kmemleak_object *create_object(unsigned long ptr, size_t size,
struct kmemleak_object *object, *parent;
struct rb_node **link, *rb_parent;
unsigned long untagged_ptr;
unsigned long untagged_objp;
object = mem_pool_alloc(gfp);
if (!object) {
......@@ -629,9 +635,10 @@ static struct kmemleak_object *create_object(unsigned long ptr, size_t size,
while (*link) {
rb_parent = *link;
parent = rb_entry(rb_parent, struct kmemleak_object, rb_node);
if (ptr + size <= parent->pointer)
untagged_objp = (unsigned long)kasan_reset_tag((void *)parent->pointer);
if (untagged_ptr + size <= untagged_objp)
link = &parent->rb_node.rb_left;
else if (parent->pointer + parent->size <= ptr)
else if (untagged_objp + parent->size <= untagged_ptr)
link = &parent->rb_node.rb_right;
else {
kmemleak_stop("Cannot insert 0x%lx into the object search tree (overlaps existing)\n",
......
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