From bebf56a1b176c2e1c9efe44e7e6915532cc682cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrey Ryabinin Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 14:40:17 -0800 Subject: kasan: enable instrumentation of global variables This feature let us to detect accesses out of bounds of global variables. This will work as for globals in kernel image, so for globals in modules. Currently this won't work for symbols in user-specified sections (e.g. __init, __read_mostly, ...) The idea of this is simple. Compiler increases each global variable by redzone size and add constructors invoking __asan_register_globals() function. Information about global variable (address, size, size with redzone ...) passed to __asan_register_globals() so we could poison variable's redzone. This patch also forces module_alloc() to return 8*PAGE_SIZE aligned address making shadow memory handling ( kasan_module_alloc()/kasan_module_free() ) more simple. Such alignment guarantees that each shadow page backing modules address space correspond to only one module_alloc() allocation. Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: Konstantin Serebryany Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov Cc: Yuri Gribov Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov Cc: Sasha Levin Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- lib/Kconfig.kasan | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'lib') diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.kasan b/lib/Kconfig.kasan index 4d47d874335c..4fecaedc80a2 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.kasan +++ b/lib/Kconfig.kasan @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ if HAVE_ARCH_KASAN config KASAN bool "KASan: runtime memory debugger" depends on SLUB_DEBUG + select CONSTRUCTORS help Enables kernel address sanitizer - runtime memory debugger, designed to find out-of-bounds accesses and use-after-free bugs. -- cgit v1.2.3-58-ga151