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.com
Signed-off-by: Kuan-Ying Lee <Kuan-Ying.Lee@mediatek.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin 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: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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",
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) {
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",