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authorMarco Elver <elver@google.com>2021-09-07 19:56:21 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-09-08 11:50:24 -0700
commit4bbf04aa9aa88ae41205e387d35743a9bf5e933d (patch)
treea1ecd87116814143015200c912623f34311ebe82 /Documentation/dev-tools
parent110860541f443f950c1274f217a1a3e298670a33 (diff)
kfence: show cpu and timestamp in alloc/free info
Record cpu and timestamp on allocations and frees, and show them in reports. Upon an error, this can help correlate earlier messages in the kernel log via allocation and free timestamps. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210714175312.2947941-1-elver@google.com Suggested-by: Joern Engel <joern@purestorage.com> Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Acked-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Acked-by: Joern Engel <joern@purestorage.com> Cc: Yuanyuan Zhong <yzhong@purestorage.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/dev-tools')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/dev-tools/kfence.rst98
1 files changed, 53 insertions, 45 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kfence.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kfence.rst
index fdf04e741ea5..0fbe3308bf37 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kfence.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kfence.rst
@@ -65,25 +65,27 @@ Error reports
A typical out-of-bounds access looks like this::
==================================================================
- BUG: KFENCE: out-of-bounds read in test_out_of_bounds_read+0xa3/0x22b
+ BUG: KFENCE: out-of-bounds read in test_out_of_bounds_read+0xa6/0x234
- Out-of-bounds read at 0xffffffffb672efff (1B left of kfence-#17):
- test_out_of_bounds_read+0xa3/0x22b
- kunit_try_run_case+0x51/0x85
+ Out-of-bounds read at 0xffff8c3f2e291fff (1B left of kfence-#72):
+ test_out_of_bounds_read+0xa6/0x234
+ kunit_try_run_case+0x61/0xa0
kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x16/0x30
- kthread+0x137/0x160
+ kthread+0x176/0x1b0
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
- kfence-#17 [0xffffffffb672f000-0xffffffffb672f01f, size=32, cache=kmalloc-32] allocated by task 507:
- test_alloc+0xf3/0x25b
- test_out_of_bounds_read+0x98/0x22b
- kunit_try_run_case+0x51/0x85
+ kfence-#72: 0xffff8c3f2e292000-0xffff8c3f2e29201f, size=32, cache=kmalloc-32
+
+ allocated by task 484 on cpu 0 at 32.919330s:
+ test_alloc+0xfe/0x738
+ test_out_of_bounds_read+0x9b/0x234
+ kunit_try_run_case+0x61/0xa0
kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x16/0x30
- kthread+0x137/0x160
+ kthread+0x176/0x1b0
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
- CPU: 4 PID: 107 Comm: kunit_try_catch Not tainted 5.8.0-rc6+ #7
- Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1 04/01/2014
+ CPU: 0 PID: 484 Comm: kunit_try_catch Not tainted 5.13.0-rc3+ #7
+ Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-2 04/01/2014
==================================================================
The header of the report provides a short summary of the function involved in
@@ -96,30 +98,32 @@ Use-after-free accesses are reported as::
==================================================================
BUG: KFENCE: use-after-free read in test_use_after_free_read+0xb3/0x143
- Use-after-free read at 0xffffffffb673dfe0 (in kfence-#24):
+ Use-after-free read at 0xffff8c3f2e2a0000 (in kfence-#79):
test_use_after_free_read+0xb3/0x143
- kunit_try_run_case+0x51/0x85
+ kunit_try_run_case+0x61/0xa0
kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x16/0x30
- kthread+0x137/0x160
+ kthread+0x176/0x1b0
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
- kfence-#24 [0xffffffffb673dfe0-0xffffffffb673dfff, size=32, cache=kmalloc-32] allocated by task 507:
- test_alloc+0xf3/0x25b
+ kfence-#79: 0xffff8c3f2e2a0000-0xffff8c3f2e2a001f, size=32, cache=kmalloc-32
+
+ allocated by task 488 on cpu 2 at 33.871326s:
+ test_alloc+0xfe/0x738
test_use_after_free_read+0x76/0x143
- kunit_try_run_case+0x51/0x85
+ kunit_try_run_case+0x61/0xa0
kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x16/0x30
- kthread+0x137/0x160
+ kthread+0x176/0x1b0
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
- freed by task 507:
+ freed by task 488 on cpu 2 at 33.871358s:
test_use_after_free_read+0xa8/0x143
- kunit_try_run_case+0x51/0x85
+ kunit_try_run_case+0x61/0xa0
kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x16/0x30
- kthread+0x137/0x160
+ kthread+0x176/0x1b0
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
- CPU: 4 PID: 109 Comm: kunit_try_catch Tainted: G W 5.8.0-rc6+ #7
- Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1 04/01/2014
+ CPU: 2 PID: 488 Comm: kunit_try_catch Tainted: G B 5.13.0-rc3+ #7
+ Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-2 04/01/2014
==================================================================
KFENCE also reports on invalid frees, such as double-frees::
@@ -127,30 +131,32 @@ KFENCE also reports on invalid frees, such as double-frees::
==================================================================
BUG: KFENCE: invalid free in test_double_free+0xdc/0x171
- Invalid free of 0xffffffffb6741000:
+ Invalid free of 0xffff8c3f2e2a4000 (in kfence-#81):
test_double_free+0xdc/0x171
- kunit_try_run_case+0x51/0x85
+ kunit_try_run_case+0x61/0xa0
kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x16/0x30
- kthread+0x137/0x160
+ kthread+0x176/0x1b0
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
- kfence-#26 [0xffffffffb6741000-0xffffffffb674101f, size=32, cache=kmalloc-32] allocated by task 507:
- test_alloc+0xf3/0x25b
+ kfence-#81: 0xffff8c3f2e2a4000-0xffff8c3f2e2a401f, size=32, cache=kmalloc-32
+
+ allocated by task 490 on cpu 1 at 34.175321s:
+ test_alloc+0xfe/0x738
test_double_free+0x76/0x171
- kunit_try_run_case+0x51/0x85
+ kunit_try_run_case+0x61/0xa0
kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x16/0x30
- kthread+0x137/0x160
+ kthread+0x176/0x1b0
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
- freed by task 507:
+ freed by task 490 on cpu 1 at 34.175348s:
test_double_free+0xa8/0x171
- kunit_try_run_case+0x51/0x85
+ kunit_try_run_case+0x61/0xa0
kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x16/0x30
- kthread+0x137/0x160
+ kthread+0x176/0x1b0
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
- CPU: 4 PID: 111 Comm: kunit_try_catch Tainted: G W 5.8.0-rc6+ #7
- Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1 04/01/2014
+ CPU: 1 PID: 490 Comm: kunit_try_catch Tainted: G B 5.13.0-rc3+ #7
+ Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-2 04/01/2014
==================================================================
KFENCE also uses pattern-based redzones on the other side of an object's guard
@@ -160,23 +166,25 @@ These are reported on frees::
==================================================================
BUG: KFENCE: memory corruption in test_kmalloc_aligned_oob_write+0xef/0x184
- Corrupted memory at 0xffffffffb6797ff9 [ 0xac . . . . . . ] (in kfence-#69):
+ Corrupted memory at 0xffff8c3f2e33aff9 [ 0xac . . . . . . ] (in kfence-#156):
test_kmalloc_aligned_oob_write+0xef/0x184
- kunit_try_run_case+0x51/0x85
+ kunit_try_run_case+0x61/0xa0
kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x16/0x30
- kthread+0x137/0x160
+ kthread+0x176/0x1b0
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
- kfence-#69 [0xffffffffb6797fb0-0xffffffffb6797ff8, size=73, cache=kmalloc-96] allocated by task 507:
- test_alloc+0xf3/0x25b
+ kfence-#156: 0xffff8c3f2e33afb0-0xffff8c3f2e33aff8, size=73, cache=kmalloc-96
+
+ allocated by task 502 on cpu 7 at 42.159302s:
+ test_alloc+0xfe/0x738
test_kmalloc_aligned_oob_write+0x57/0x184
- kunit_try_run_case+0x51/0x85
+ kunit_try_run_case+0x61/0xa0
kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x16/0x30
- kthread+0x137/0x160
+ kthread+0x176/0x1b0
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
- CPU: 4 PID: 120 Comm: kunit_try_catch Tainted: G W 5.8.0-rc6+ #7
- Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1 04/01/2014
+ CPU: 7 PID: 502 Comm: kunit_try_catch Tainted: G B 5.13.0-rc3+ #7
+ Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-2 04/01/2014
==================================================================
For such errors, the address where the corruption occurred as well as the