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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 12:50:13 -0500
From: David Windsor <dwindsor@...il.com>
To: "Reshetova, Elena" <elena.reshetova@...el.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@...aro.org>,
"kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>, "arnd@...db.de" <arnd@...db.de>,
"tglx@...utronix.de" <tglx@...utronix.de>, "mingo@...hat.com" <mingo@...hat.com>,
"Anvin, H Peter" <h.peter.anvin@...el.com>, "will.deacon@....com" <will.deacon@....com>,
"gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, "ishkamiel@...il.com" <ishkamiel@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 08/19] kernel, mm: convert from
atomic_t to refcount_t
On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 12:44 PM, Reshetova, Elena
<elena.reshetova@...el.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 8:16 AM, Reshetova, Elena
>> <elena.reshetova@...el.com> wrote:
>> >> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 02:11:15PM +0900, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
>> >> > On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 02:55:21PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
>> >> > > On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 1:42 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > > > I can see if it'll cherry-pick cleanly, I assume it will. :)
>> >> > >
>> >> > > It cherry-picked cleanly. However, I made several changes:
>> >> > >
>> >> > > - I adjusted Peter's author email (it had extra []s around).
>> >> > > - I fixed all of the commit subjects (Peter's were missing).
>> >> > > - I added back "kref: Add KREF_INIT()" since it seems to have been
>> >> > > lost and mixed into other patches that would break bisection
>> >> > >
>> >> > > It's here now, please work from this version:
>> >> > >
>> >> > >
>> >>
>> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git/log/?h=kspp/hardened-
>> >> atomic
>> >> >
>> >> > I gave it a spin on arm64.
>> >> > It can compile with a change to smp.c that I mentioned before,
>> >> > but the boot failed. I've not dug into it.
>> >> >
>> >> > ===8<===
>> >> > [ 3.578618] refcount_t: increment on 0; use-after-free.
>> >> > [ 3.579165] ------------[ cut here ]------------
>> >> > [ 3.579254] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at
>> /home/akashi/arm/armv8/linaro/linux-
>> >> aarch64/include/linux/refcount.h:109 unx_create+0x8c/0xc0
>> >>
>> >> That's dodgy code, someone needs to look at that.
>> >>
>> >> It has an inc in a function called 'create' which seems to suggest its
>> >> objection creation and we should be using refcount_set() instead.
>> >>
>> >> Then again, it looks like you can call this 'create' method multiple
>> >> times, each time returning the same static object, so refcount_set()
>> >> would not be correct.
>> >>
>> >> Using a refcount on a static object is weird of course, so this is bound
>> >> to give trouble.
>> >
>> > I have reverted this one back to atomic and added it to the tracking doc.
>> > The problem for this one is that it is not always used as static and in other cases
>> > it is even initialized correctly to 1, but this static case seems to be special one
>> giving troubles...
>> >
>> > Last week I also fixed all the warnings/errors that test infra gave. The question
>> that comes is what next? How do we really test this further apart from just booting
>> this up?
>>
>> Which tree has all the fixes? I can refresh my kernel.org tree and let
>> 0day grind on it, then we can start getting acks and I can push it
>> into -next via my KSPP tree.
>
> Here is the tree: https://github.com/ereshetova/linux-stable/commits/refcount_t
>
> I would really like to get more runtime testing done for it also, not just asks :)
Do you have any particular workload that you've been testing these with?
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