kasan: remove PG_skip_kasan_poison flag

Code inspection reveals that PG_skip_kasan_poison is redundant with
kasantag, because the former is intended to be set iff the latter is the
match-all tag.  It can also be observed that it's basically pointless to
poison pages which have kasantag=0, because any pages with this tag would
have been pointed to by pointers with match-all tags, so poisoning the
pages would have little to no effect in terms of bug detection. 
Therefore, change the condition in should_skip_kasan_poison() to check
kasantag instead, and remove PG_skip_kasan_poison and associated flags.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230310042914.3805818-3-pcc@google.com
Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/I57f825f2eaeaf7e8389d6cf4597c8a5821359838
Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Evgenii Stepanov <eugenis@google.com>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 30 insertions, 51 deletions

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index a109444e9f44..3737f9d58f5f 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -112,17 +112,6 @@ typedef int __bitwise fpi_t;
  */
 #define FPI_TO_TAIL		((__force fpi_t)BIT(1))
 
-/*
- * Don't poison memory with KASAN (only for the tag-based modes).
- * During boot, all non-reserved memblock memory is exposed to page_alloc.
- * Poisoning all that memory lengthens boot time, especially on systems with
- * large amount of RAM. This flag is used to skip that poisoning.
- * This is only done for the tag-based KASAN modes, as those are able to
- * detect memory corruptions with the memory tags assigned by default.
- * All memory allocated normally after boot gets poisoned as usual.
- */
-#define FPI_SKIP_KASAN_POISON	((__force fpi_t)BIT(2))
-
 /* prevent >1 _updater_ of zone percpu pageset ->high and ->batch fields */
 static DEFINE_MUTEX(pcp_batch_high_lock);
 #define MIN_PERCPU_PAGELIST_HIGH_FRACTION (8)
@@ -1370,13 +1359,19 @@ out:
 /*
  * Skip KASAN memory poisoning when either:
  *
- * 1. Deferred memory initialization has not yet completed,
- *    see the explanation below.
- * 2. Skipping poisoning is requested via FPI_SKIP_KASAN_POISON,
- *    see the comment next to it.
- * 3. Skipping poisoning is requested via __GFP_SKIP_KASAN_POISON,
- *    see the comment next to it.
- * 4. The allocation is excluded from being checked due to sampling,
+ * 1. For generic KASAN: deferred memory initialization has not yet completed.
+ *    Tag-based KASAN modes skip pages freed via deferred memory initialization
+ *    using page tags instead (see below).
+ * 2. For tag-based KASAN modes: the page has a match-all KASAN tag, indicating
+ *    that error detection is disabled for accesses via the page address.
+ *
+ * Pages will have match-all tags in the following circumstances:
+ *
+ * 1. Pages are being initialized for the first time, including during deferred
+ *    memory init; see the call to page_kasan_tag_reset in __init_single_page.
+ * 2. The allocation was not unpoisoned due to __GFP_SKIP_KASAN, with the
+ *    exception of pages unpoisoned by kasan_unpoison_vmalloc.
+ * 3. The allocation was excluded from being checked due to sampling,
  *    see the call to kasan_unpoison_pages.
  *
  * Poisoning pages during deferred memory init will greatly lengthen the
@@ -1392,10 +1387,10 @@ out:
  */
 static inline bool should_skip_kasan_poison(struct page *page, fpi_t fpi_flags)
 {
-	return deferred_pages_enabled() ||
-	       (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC) &&
-		(fpi_flags & FPI_SKIP_KASAN_POISON)) ||
-	       PageSkipKASanPoison(page);
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC))
+		return deferred_pages_enabled();
+
+	return page_kasan_tag(page) == 0xff;
 }
 
 static void kernel_init_pages(struct page *page, int numpages)
@@ -1730,7 +1725,7 @@ void __free_pages_core(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
 	 * Bypass PCP and place fresh pages right to the tail, primarily
 	 * relevant for memory onlining.
 	 */
-	__free_pages_ok(page, order, FPI_TO_TAIL | FPI_SKIP_KASAN_POISON);
+	__free_pages_ok(page, order, FPI_TO_TAIL);
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
@@ -2396,9 +2391,9 @@ static inline bool should_skip_kasan_unpoison(gfp_t flags)
 
 	/*
 	 * With hardware tag-based KASAN enabled, skip if this has been
-	 * requested via __GFP_SKIP_KASAN_UNPOISON.
+	 * requested via __GFP_SKIP_KASAN.
 	 */
-	return flags & __GFP_SKIP_KASAN_UNPOISON;
+	return flags & __GFP_SKIP_KASAN;
 }
 
 static inline bool should_skip_init(gfp_t flags)
@@ -2417,7 +2412,6 @@ inline void post_alloc_hook(struct page *page, unsigned int order,
 	bool init = !want_init_on_free() && want_init_on_alloc(gfp_flags) &&
 			!should_skip_init(gfp_flags);
 	bool zero_tags = init && (gfp_flags & __GFP_ZEROTAGS);
-	bool reset_tags = true;
 	int i;
 
 	set_page_private(page, 0);
@@ -2451,37 +2445,22 @@ inline void post_alloc_hook(struct page *page, unsigned int order,
 		/* Take note that memory was initialized by the loop above. */
 		init = false;
 	}
-	if (!should_skip_kasan_unpoison(gfp_flags)) {
-		/* Try unpoisoning (or setting tags) and initializing memory. */
-		if (kasan_unpoison_pages(page, order, init)) {
-			/* Take note that memory was initialized by KASAN. */
-			if (kasan_has_integrated_init())
-				init = false;
-			/* Take note that memory tags were set by KASAN. */
-			reset_tags = false;
-		} else {
-			/*
-			 * KASAN decided to exclude this allocation from being
-			 * (un)poisoned due to sampling. Make KASAN skip
-			 * poisoning when the allocation is freed.
-			 */
-			SetPageSkipKASanPoison(page);
-		}
-	}
-	/*
-	 * If memory tags have not been set by KASAN, reset the page tags to
-	 * ensure page_address() dereferencing does not fault.
-	 */
-	if (reset_tags) {
+	if (!should_skip_kasan_unpoison(gfp_flags) &&
+	    kasan_unpoison_pages(page, order, init)) {
+		/* Take note that memory was initialized by KASAN. */
+		if (kasan_has_integrated_init())
+			init = false;
+	} else {
+		/*
+		 * If memory tags have not been set by KASAN, reset the page
+		 * tags to ensure page_address() dereferencing does not fault.
+		 */
 		for (i = 0; i != 1 << order; ++i)
 			page_kasan_tag_reset(page + i);
 	}
 	/* If memory is still not initialized, initialize it now. */
 	if (init)
 		kernel_init_pages(page, 1 << order);
-	/* Propagate __GFP_SKIP_KASAN_POISON to page flags. */
-	if (kasan_hw_tags_enabled() && (gfp_flags & __GFP_SKIP_KASAN_POISON))
-		SetPageSkipKASanPoison(page);
 
 	set_page_owner(page, order, gfp_flags);
 	page_table_check_alloc(page, order);