mm/slub: extend redzone check to extra allocated kmalloc space than requested

kmalloc will round up the request size to a fixed size (mostly power
of 2), so there could be a extra space than what is requested, whose
size is the actual buffer size minus original request size.

To better detect out of bound access or abuse of this space, add
redzone sanity check for it.

In current kernel, some kmalloc user already knows the existence of
the space and utilizes it after calling 'ksize()' to know the real
size of the allocated buffer. So we skip the sanity check for objects
which have been called with ksize(), as treating them as legitimate
users. Kees Cook is working on sanitizing all these user cases,
by using kmalloc_size_roundup() to avoid ambiguous usages. And after
this is done, this special handling for ksize() can be removed.

In some cases, the free pointer could be saved inside the latter
part of object data area, which may overlap the redzone part(for
small sizes of kmalloc objects). As suggested by Hyeonggon Yoo,
force the free pointer to be in meta data area when kmalloc redzone
debug is enabled, to make all kmalloc objects covered by redzone
check.

Suggested-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/slab.h b/mm/slab.h
index 2642102f6699..190f2d4ec216 100644
--- a/mm/slab.h
+++ b/mm/slab.h
@@ -885,4 +885,8 @@ void __check_heap_object(const void *ptr, unsigned long n,
 }
 #endif
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG
+void skip_orig_size_check(struct kmem_cache *s, const void *object);
+#endif
+
 #endif /* MM_SLAB_H */