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Currently, KASAN_SW_TAGS uses 0xFF as the default tag value for unallocated memory. The underlying idea is that since that memory hasn't been allocated yet, it's only supposed to be dereferenced through a pointer with the native 0xFF tag. While this is a good idea in terms on consistency, practically it doesn't bring any benefit. Since the 0xFF pointer tag is a match-all tag, it doesn't matter what tag the accessed memory has. No accesses through 0xFF-tagged pointers are considered buggy by KASAN. This patch changes the default tag value for unallocated memory to 0xFE, which is the tag KASAN uses for inaccessible memory. This doesn't affect accesses through 0xFF-tagged pointer to this memory, but this allows KASAN to detect wild and large out-of-bounds invalid memory accesses through otherwise-tagged pointers. This is a prepatory patch for the next one, which changes the tag-based KASAN modes to not poison the boot memory. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/c8e93571c18b3528aac5eb33ade213bf133d10ad.1613692950.git.andreyknvl@google.com Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Branislav Rankov <Branislav.Rankov@arm.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Evgenii Stepanov <eugenis@google.com> Cc: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com> Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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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.