mm, kasan: don't poison boot memory with tag-based modes

During boot, all non-reserved memblock memory is exposed to page_alloc via
memblock_free_pages->__free_pages_core().  This results in
kasan_free_pages() being called, which poisons that memory.

Poisoning all that memory lengthens boot time.  The most noticeable effect
is observed with the HW_TAGS mode.  A boot-time impact may potentially
also affect systems with large amount of RAM.

This patch changes the tag-based modes to not poison the memory during the
memblock->page_alloc transition.

An exception is made for KASAN_GENERIC.  Since it marks all new memory as
accessible, not poisoning the memory released from memblock will lead to
KASAN missing invalid boot-time accesses to that memory.

With KASAN_SW_TAGS, as it uses the invalid 0xFE tag as the default tag for
all memory, it won't miss bad boot-time accesses even if the poisoning of
memblock memory is removed.

With KASAN_HW_TAGS, the default memory tags values are unspecified.
Therefore, if memblock poisoning is removed, this KASAN mode will miss the
mentioned type of boot-time bugs with a 1/16 probability.  This is taken
as an acceptable trafe-off.

Internally, the poisoning is removed as follows.  __free_pages_core() is
used when exposing fresh memory during system boot and when onlining
memory during hotplug.  This patch adds a new FPI_SKIP_KASAN_POISON flag
and passes it to __free_pages_ok() through free_pages_prepare() from
__free_pages_core().  If FPI_SKIP_KASAN_POISON is set, kasan_free_pages()
is not called.

All memory allocated normally when the boot is over keeps getting poisoned
as usual.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a0570dc1e3a8f39a55aa343a1fc08cd5c2d4cad6.1613692950.git.andreyknvl@google.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Cc: Evgenii Stepanov <eugenis@google.com>
Cc: Branislav Rankov <Branislav.Rankov@arm.com>
Cc: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 34 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 39ff5c604cef..342cabf912a7 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -109,6 +109,17 @@ typedef int __bitwise fpi_t;
  */
 #define FPI_TO_TAIL		((__force fpi_t)BIT(1))
 
+/*
+ * Don't poison memory with KASAN (only for the tag-based modes).
+ * During boot, all non-reserved memblock memory is exposed to page_alloc.
+ * Poisoning all that memory lengthens boot time, especially on systems with
+ * large amount of RAM. This flag is used to skip that poisoning.
+ * This is only done for the tag-based KASAN modes, as those are able to
+ * detect memory corruptions with the memory tags assigned by default.
+ * All memory allocated normally after boot gets poisoned as usual.
+ */
+#define FPI_SKIP_KASAN_POISON	((__force fpi_t)BIT(2))
+
 /* prevent >1 _updater_ of zone percpu pageset ->high and ->batch fields */
 static DEFINE_MUTEX(pcp_batch_high_lock);
 #define MIN_PERCPU_PAGELIST_FRACTION	(8)
@@ -385,10 +396,15 @@ static DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_TRUE(deferred_pages);
  * on-demand allocation and then freed again before the deferred pages
  * initialization is done, but this is not likely to happen.
  */
-static inline void kasan_free_nondeferred_pages(struct page *page, int order)
+static inline void kasan_free_nondeferred_pages(struct page *page, int order,
+							fpi_t fpi_flags)
 {
-	if (!static_branch_unlikely(&deferred_pages))
-		kasan_free_pages(page, order);
+	if (static_branch_unlikely(&deferred_pages))
+		return;
+	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC) &&
+			(fpi_flags & FPI_SKIP_KASAN_POISON))
+		return;
+	kasan_free_pages(page, order);
 }
 
 /* Returns true if the struct page for the pfn is uninitialised */
@@ -439,7 +455,14 @@ defer_init(int nid, unsigned long pfn, unsigned long end_pfn)
 	return false;
 }
 #else
-#define kasan_free_nondeferred_pages(p, o)	kasan_free_pages(p, o)
+static inline void kasan_free_nondeferred_pages(struct page *page, int order,
+							fpi_t fpi_flags)
+{
+	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC) &&
+			(fpi_flags & FPI_SKIP_KASAN_POISON))
+		return;
+	kasan_free_pages(page, order);
+}
 
 static inline bool early_page_uninitialised(unsigned long pfn)
 {
@@ -1217,7 +1240,7 @@ static void kernel_init_free_pages(struct page *page, int numpages)
 }
 
 static __always_inline bool free_pages_prepare(struct page *page,
-					unsigned int order, bool check_free)
+			unsigned int order, bool check_free, fpi_t fpi_flags)
 {
 	int bad = 0;
 
@@ -1286,7 +1309,7 @@ static __always_inline bool free_pages_prepare(struct page *page,
 	 * With hardware tag-based KASAN, memory tags must be set before the
 	 * page becomes unavailable via debug_pagealloc or arch_free_page.
 	 */
-	kasan_free_nondeferred_pages(page, order);
+	kasan_free_nondeferred_pages(page, order, fpi_flags);
 
 	/*
 	 * arch_free_page() can make the page's contents inaccessible.  s390
@@ -1308,7 +1331,7 @@ static __always_inline bool free_pages_prepare(struct page *page,
  */
 static bool free_pcp_prepare(struct page *page)
 {
-	return free_pages_prepare(page, 0, true);
+	return free_pages_prepare(page, 0, true, FPI_NONE);
 }
 
 static bool bulkfree_pcp_prepare(struct page *page)
@@ -1328,9 +1351,9 @@ static bool bulkfree_pcp_prepare(struct page *page)
 static bool free_pcp_prepare(struct page *page)
 {
 	if (debug_pagealloc_enabled_static())
-		return free_pages_prepare(page, 0, true);
+		return free_pages_prepare(page, 0, true, FPI_NONE);
 	else
-		return free_pages_prepare(page, 0, false);
+		return free_pages_prepare(page, 0, false, FPI_NONE);
 }
 
 static bool bulkfree_pcp_prepare(struct page *page)
@@ -1538,7 +1561,7 @@ static void __free_pages_ok(struct page *page, unsigned int order,
 	int migratetype;
 	unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
 
-	if (!free_pages_prepare(page, order, true))
+	if (!free_pages_prepare(page, order, true, fpi_flags))
 		return;
 
 	migratetype = get_pfnblock_migratetype(page, pfn);
@@ -1575,7 +1598,7 @@ void __free_pages_core(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
 	 * Bypass PCP and place fresh pages right to the tail, primarily
 	 * relevant for memory onlining.
 	 */
-	__free_pages_ok(page, order, FPI_TO_TAIL);
+	__free_pages_ok(page, order, FPI_TO_TAIL | FPI_SKIP_KASAN_POISON);
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES