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Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:06:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from li-1a3e774c-28e4-11b2-a85c-acc9f2883e29.ibm.com.com ([106.51.165.23]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id a92af1059eb24-14365b759d0sm8806721c88.7.2026.09.11.11.06.37 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:06:46 -0700 (PDT) From: "Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM)" To: maddy@linux.ibm.com, mpe@ellerman.id.au, npiggin@gmail.com, chleroy@kernel.org, ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com, glider@google.com, andreyknvl@gmail.com, dvyukov@google.com, vincenzo.frascino@arm.com, pjw@kernel.org, palmer@dabbelt.com, aou@eecs.berkeley.edu, alex@ghiti.fr, kees@kernel.org, mkchauras@gmail.com, ritesh.list@gmail.com, amachhiw@linux.ibm.com, mahesh@linux.ibm.com, nikhilks@linux.ibm.com, robh@kernel.org, sayalip@linux.ibm.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org Cc: Venkat Rao Bagalkote Subject: [PATCH V2] powerpc/kasan: require memintrinsic prefix support for KASAN Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2026 23:35:37 +0530 Message-ID: <20260911180536.3234640-2-mkchauras@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.55.0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit powerpc unconditionally selects GENERIC_ENTRY. The GENERIC_ENTRY infrastructure relies on the compiler emitting __asan_mem*() calls at instrumented mem*() sites rather than plain memset/memcpy/memmove, so that entry/exit paths calling those functions are not instrumented. This assumption is encoded in two places: mm/kasan/shadow.c: #if !defined(CONFIG_CC_HAS_KASAN_MEMINTRINSIC_PREFIX) && !defined(CONFIG_GENERIC_ENTRY) include/linux/fortify-string.h: #if !defined(CONFIG_CC_HAS_KASAN_MEMINTRINSIC_PREFIX) && !defined(CONFIG_GENERIC_ENTRY) When GENERIC_ENTRY is set, both guards suppress the C wrappers for memset/memcpy/memmove and the __underlying_mem*() redirections. This is only safe when the compiler supports the prefixed __asan_mem*() intrinsics. On older toolchains (e.g. GCC 9) that lack this support, plain mem*() calls from instrumented code fall through to the raw assembly implementations in mem_64.S / copy_32.S, completely bypassing the KASAN shadow check. Other arches with GENERIC_ENTRY (x86, s390, loongarch, riscv) do not hit this because their CI toolchains are always new enough to support the prefix flag. Background: the !GENERIC_ENTRY guard was introduced by commit 69d4c0d32186 ("entry, kasan, x86: Disallow overriding mem*() functions", Peter Zijlstra, Jan 2023). The root problem is that the KASAN C wrappers override the linker symbol memset/memcpy/memmove globally, so any call from noinstr or __no_sanitize_address code (e.g. irqentry_enter/irqentry_exit) would still reach the KASAN shadow-check wrapper -- at a point where KASAN invariants may not hold. The compiler prefix approach (Marco Elver, Feb 2023, commit 51287dcb00cc) solves this by having the compiler emit __asan_memset at instrumented call sites and bare memset inside __no_sanitize_address functions, splitting the decision at code-generation time rather than at link time. A manual C-level override cannot replicate this split: a single linker symbol cannot be made to resolve differently depending on the caller. x86 also placed its raw memset/memcpy/memmove implementations in .noinstr.text (same commit, 69d4c0d32186), which is the other half of the fix: noinstr callers hit the raw assembly directly, safely bypassing KASAN. PowerPC has not done this. Placing mem_64.S / memcpy_64.S / copy_32.S implementations in .noinstr.text would be the complementary long-term fix that could re-enable KASAN on older toolchains, but it requires care around linker stub overflow on large PPC64 kernels (the same reason powerpc uses NOKPROBE_SYMBOL rather than noinstr for its interrupt handlers -- see the comment in asm/interrupt.h). That work is left as a follow-up. For now, introduce PPC_CC_HAS_KASAN_MEMINTRINSIC_PREFIX, an arch-local compiler probe that mirrors the same check as CC_HAS_KASAN_MEMINTRINSIC_PREFIX in lib/Kconfig.kasan but lives outside the 'if KASAN' block to avoid a recursive dependency (CC_HAS_KASAN_MEMINTRINSIC_PREFIX depends on KASAN which depends on HAVE_ARCH_KASAN). Gate the three HAVE_ARCH_KASAN selects on this new symbol so that KASAN is not offered as a config option on toolchains that cannot support it correctly with GENERIC_ENTRY. Since KASAN on powerpc now unconditionally implies CC_HAS_KASAN_MEMINTRINSIC_PREFIX, the old !CC_HAS_KASAN_MEMINTRINSIC_PREFIX code paths in asm/kasan.h and asm/string.h are dead. Clean them up: - asm/kasan.h: remove the dual-entry-point variant of _GLOBAL_KASAN / _GLOBAL_TOC_KASAN / EXPORT_SYMBOL_KASAN that emitted both memset and __memset as entry points to the same assembly. These aliases were only needed so the C KASAN wrappers in shadow.c could call __memset() to reach raw memory ops; with the compiler prefix approach those wrappers are not used for mem* on powerpc. - asm/string.h: remove the separate __memset/__memcpy/__memmove symbol declarations and the memset/memcpy/memmove macro redirections for uninstrumented files that were needed on old toolchains. Simplify the CONFIG_KASAN block to just the three #define aliases (still used by shadow.c as raw backends to bypass KASAN checking). - cputable.c, prom_init.c: the original comments said "use memcpy() so GCC emits __memcpy() under KASAN". The real reason is that these run pre-relocation: the destination pointer is PTRRELOC-adjusted to its current physical address, and the kernel is loaded at a different address than it was linked at. A struct assignment (*t = *s) may cause the compiler to emit an implicit memcpy() call that resolves through the unrelocated virtual symbol address -- before the MMU mapping is set up -- jumping to garbage. An explicit memcpy(t, ...) uses the already- corrected pointer and is safe. Update the comments accordingly. Reported-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/96dae110-f79b-4e54-8a9b-514369019b5d@linux.ibm.com Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote Signed-off-by: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) --- Changelog: V1 -> V2: - Comments reworded - Commit message reworded V1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260908064948.999530-1-mkchauras@gmail.com arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 10 +++++++--- arch/powerpc/include/asm/kasan.h | 11 ----------- arch/powerpc/include/asm/string.h | 21 +-------------------- arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c | 14 +++++++++++--- arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c | 10 ++++++---- 5 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig index 2580e27e4328..b27ed9739eea 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig +++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig @@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ config CC_HAS_ELFV2 config CC_HAS_PREFIXED def_bool PPC64 && $(cc-option, -mcpu=power10 -mprefixed) +config PPC_CC_HAS_KASAN_MEMINTRINSIC_PREFIX + def_bool (CC_IS_CLANG && $(cc-option,-fsanitize=kernel-address -mllvm -asan-kernel-mem-intrinsic-prefix=1)) || \ + (CC_IS_GCC && $(cc-option,-fsanitize=kernel-address --param asan-kernel-mem-intrinsic-prefix=1)) + config CC_HAS_PCREL # Clang has a bug (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/62372) # where pcrel code is not generated if -msoft-float, -mno-altivec, or @@ -220,9 +224,9 @@ config PPC select HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP if PPC_RADIX_MMU || PPC_8xx select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL_RELATIVE - select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN if PPC32 && PAGE_SHIFT <= 14 - select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN if PPC_RADIX_MMU - select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN if PPC_BOOK3E_64 + select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN if PPC32 && PAGE_SHIFT <= 14 && PPC_CC_HAS_KASAN_MEMINTRINSIC_PREFIX + select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN if PPC_RADIX_MMU && PPC_CC_HAS_KASAN_MEMINTRINSIC_PREFIX + select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN if PPC_BOOK3E_64 && PPC_CC_HAS_KASAN_MEMINTRINSIC_PREFIX select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_VMALLOC if HAVE_ARCH_KASAN select HAVE_ARCH_KCSAN select HAVE_ARCH_KFENCE if ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kasan.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kasan.h index a690e7da53c2..d62756b87ba4 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kasan.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kasan.h @@ -2,20 +2,9 @@ #ifndef __ASM_KASAN_H #define __ASM_KASAN_H -#if defined(CONFIG_KASAN) && !defined(CONFIG_CC_HAS_KASAN_MEMINTRINSIC_PREFIX) -#define _GLOBAL_KASAN(fn) \ - _GLOBAL(fn); \ - _GLOBAL(__##fn) -#define _GLOBAL_TOC_KASAN(fn) \ - _GLOBAL_TOC(fn); \ - _GLOBAL_TOC(__##fn) -#define EXPORT_SYMBOL_KASAN(fn) \ - EXPORT_SYMBOL(__##fn) -#else /* CONFIG_KASAN && !CONFIG_CC_HAS_KASAN_MEMINTRINSIC_PREFIX */ #define _GLOBAL_KASAN(fn) _GLOBAL(fn) #define _GLOBAL_TOC_KASAN(fn) _GLOBAL_TOC(fn) #define EXPORT_SYMBOL_KASAN(fn) -#endif /* CONFIG_KASAN && !CONFIG_CC_HAS_KASAN_MEMINTRINSIC_PREFIX */ #ifndef __ASSEMBLER__ diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/string.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/string.h index 1981bd4036b5..72b5c93a2b84 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/string.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/string.h @@ -29,29 +29,10 @@ extern void * memchr(const void *,int,__kernel_size_t); void memcpy_flushcache(void *dest, const void *src, size_t size); #ifdef CONFIG_KASAN -/* __mem variants are used by KASAN to implement instrumented meminstrinsics. */ -#ifdef CONFIG_CC_HAS_KASAN_MEMINTRINSIC_PREFIX +/* Used by mm/kasan/shadow.c as raw backends to bypass KASAN checking. */ #define __memset memset #define __memcpy memcpy #define __memmove memmove -#else /* CONFIG_CC_HAS_KASAN_MEMINTRINSIC_PREFIX */ -void *__memset(void *s, int c, __kernel_size_t count); -void *__memcpy(void *to, const void *from, __kernel_size_t n); -void *__memmove(void *to, const void *from, __kernel_size_t n); -#ifndef __SANITIZE_ADDRESS__ -/* - * For files that are not instrumented (e.g. mm/slub.c) we - * should use not instrumented version of mem* functions. - */ -#define memcpy(dst, src, len) __memcpy(dst, src, len) -#define memmove(dst, src, len) __memmove(dst, src, len) -#define memset(s, c, n) __memset(s, c, n) - -#ifndef __NO_FORTIFY -#define __NO_FORTIFY /* FORTIFY_SOURCE uses __builtin_memcpy, etc. */ -#endif -#endif /* !__SANITIZE_ADDRESS__ */ -#endif /* CONFIG_CC_HAS_KASAN_MEMINTRINSIC_PREFIX */ #endif /* CONFIG_KASAN */ #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64 diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c index 6f6801da9dc1..233b5c650d1e 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c @@ -36,8 +36,12 @@ void __init set_cur_cpu_spec(struct cpu_spec *s) t = PTRRELOC(t); /* - * use memcpy() instead of *t = *s so that GCC replaces it - * by __memcpy() when KASAN is active + * Use memcpy() instead of *t = *s because t is a PTRRELOC-adjusted + * pointer and this code runs before the MMU mapping is established. + * A struct assignment is a compiler-generated aggregate copy whose + * implementation is not under our control in relocation-sensitive code; + * memcpy() ensures the adjusted pointer is explicitly passed to the + * copy routine. */ memcpy(t, s, sizeof(*t)); @@ -55,7 +59,11 @@ static struct cpu_spec * __init setup_cpu_spec(unsigned long offset, /* * Copy everything, then do fixups. Use memcpy() instead of *t = *s - * so that GCC replaces it by __memcpy() when KASAN is active + * because t is a PTRRELOC-adjusted pointer and this code runs before + * the MMU mapping is established. A struct assignment is a + * compiler-generated aggregate copy whose implementation is not under + * our control in relocation-sensitive code; memcpy() ensures the + * adjusted pointer is explicitly passed to the copy routine. */ memcpy(t, s, sizeof(*t)); diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c index eb9f556b0937..d6d7f1ede319 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c @@ -1363,10 +1363,12 @@ static void __init prom_check_platform_support(void) "ibm,arch-vec-5-platform-support"); /* - * First copy the architecture vec template - * - * use memcpy() instead of *vec = *vec_template so that GCC replaces it - * by __memcpy() when KASAN is active + * First copy the architecture vec template. 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