On 04/10/2018 07:07 PM, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 2:27 PM, Andrey Ryabinin <aryabi...@virtuozzo.com> 
> wrote:
>> On 04/06/2018 03:14 PM, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
>>> On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 3:02 PM, Andrey Ryabinin <aryabi...@virtuozzo.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> Nevertheless, this doesn't mean that we should ignore *all* accesses to 
>>>> !slab memory.
>>>
>>> So you mean we need to find a way to ignore accesses via pointers
>>> returned by page_address(), but still check accesses through all other
>>> pointers tagged with 0xFF? I don't see an obvious way to do this. I'm
>>> open to suggestions though.
>>>
>>
>> I'm saying that we need to ignore accesses to slab objects if pointer
>> to slab object obtained via page_address() + offset_in_page() trick, but 
>> don't ignore
>> anything else.
>>
>> So, save tag somewhere in page struct and poison shadow with that tag. Make 
>> page_address() to
>> return tagged address for all !PageSlab() pages. For PageSlab() pages 
>> page_address() should return
>> 0xff tagged address, so we could ignore such accesses.
> 
> Which pages do you mean by !PageSlab()?

Literally the "PageSlab(page) == false" pages.

> The ones that are allocated and freed by pagealloc, but mot managed by the 
> slab allocator?

Yes.

> Perhaps we should then add tagging to the pagealloc hook instead?
> 

Of course the tagging would be in kasan_alloc_pages(), where else that could 
be? And instead of what?
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