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Marco Elver
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Because mm/slab_common.c is not instrumented with software KASAN modes, it is not possible to detect use-after-free of the kmem_cache passed into kmem_cache_destroy(). In particular, because of the s->refcount-- and subsequent early return if non-zero, KASAN would never be able to see the double-free via kmem_cache_free(kmem_cache, s). To be able to detect a double-kmem_cache_destroy(), check accessibility of the kmem_cache, and in case of failure return early. While KASAN_HW_TAGS is able to detect such bugs, by checking accessibility and returning early we fail more gracefully and also avoid corrupting reused objects (where tags mismatch). A recent case of a double-kmem_cache_destroy() was detected by KFENCE: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0000000000003f654905c168b09d@google.com, which was not detectable by software KASAN modes. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211119142219.1519617-1-elver@google.com Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.