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Patch series "kasan: add hardware tag-based mode for arm64", v11.
This patchset adds a new hardware tag-based mode to KASAN [1]. The new
mode is similar to the existing software tag-based KASAN, but relies on
arm64 Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) [2] to perform memory and pointer
tagging (instead of shadow memory and compiler instrumentation).
This patchset is co-developed and tested by
Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>.
This patchset is available here:
https://github.com/xairy/linux/tree/up-kasan-mte-v11
For testing in QEMU hardware tag-based KASAN requires:
1. QEMU built from master [4] (use "-machine virt,mte=on -cpu max" arguments
to run).
2. GCC version 10.
[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/dev-tools/kasan.html
[2] https://community.arm.com/developer/ip-products/processors/b/processors-ip-blog/posts/enhancing-memory-safety
[3] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux for-next/mte
[4] https://github.com/qemu/qemu
====== Overview
The underlying ideas of the approach used by hardware tag-based KASAN are:
1. By relying on the Top Byte Ignore (TBI) arm64 CPU feature, pointer tags
are stored in the top byte of each kernel pointer.
2. With the Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) arm64 CPU feature, memory tags
for kernel memory allocations are stored in a dedicated memory not
accessible via normal instuctions.
3. On each memory allocation, a random tag is generated, embedded it into
the returned pointer, and the corresponding memory is tagged with the
same tag value.
4. With MTE the CPU performs a check on each memory access to make sure
that the pointer tag matches the memory tag.
5. On a tag mismatch the CPU generates a tag fault, and a KASAN report is
printed.
Same as other KASAN modes, hardware tag-based KASAN is intended as a
debugging feature at this point.
====== Rationale
There are two main reasons for this new hardware tag-based mode:
1. Previously implemented software tag-based KASAN is being successfully
used on dogfood testing devices due to its low memory overhead (as
initially planned). The new hardware mode keeps the same low memory
overhead, and is expected to have significantly lower performance
impact, due to the tag checks being performed by the hardware.
Therefore the new mode can be used as a better alternative in dogfood
testing for hardware that supports MTE.
2. The new mode lays the groundwork for the planned in-kernel MTE-based
memory corruption mitigation to be used in production.
====== Technical details
Considering the implementation perspective, hardware tag-based KASAN is
almost identical to the software mode. The key difference is using MTE
for assigning and checking tags.
Compared to the software mode, the hardware mode uses 4 bits per tag, as
dictated by MTE. Pointer tags are stored in bits [56:60), the top 4 bits
have the normal value 0xF. Having less distict tags increases the
probablity of false negatives (from ~1/256 to ~1/16) in certain cases.
Only synchronous exceptions are set up and used by hardware tag-based KASAN.
====== Benchmarks
Note: all measurements have been performed with software emulation of Memory
Tagging Extension, performance numbers for hardware tag-based KASAN on the
actual hardware are expected to be better.
Boot time [1]:
* 2.8 sec for clean kernel
* 5.7 sec for hardware tag-based KASAN
* 11.8 sec for software tag-based KASAN
* 11.6 sec for generic KASAN
Slab memory usage after boot [2]:
* 7.0 kb for clean kernel
* 9.7 kb for hardware tag-based KASAN
* 9.7 kb for software tag-based KASAN
* 41.3 kb for generic KASAN
Measurements have been performed with:
* defconfig-based configs
* Manually built QEMU master
* QEMU arguments: -machine virt,mte=on -cpu max
* CONFIG_KASAN_STACK_ENABLE disabled
* CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE enabled
* clang-10 as the compiler and gcc-10 as the assembler
[1] Time before the ext4 driver is initialized.
[2] Measured as `cat /proc/meminfo | grep Slab`.
====== Notes
The cover letter for software tag-based KASAN patchset can be found here:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0116523cfffa62aeb5aa3b85ce7419f3dae0c1b8
===== Tags
Tested-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
This patch (of 41):
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Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
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