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Andrey Ryabinin 22ab064776 kasan: unpoison task stack below watermark only in generic mode
CPU resume and BPF exception handling can discard stack frames without
running their compiler-generated epilogues.  Generic KASAN needs
kasan_unpoison_task_stack_below() to clear the redzones left behind by
those frames before the stack is reused.

CONFIG_KASAN_STACK also enables this helper for SW_TAGS.  The helper
derives the stack base from an untagged stack pointer, so kasan_unpoison()
writes KASAN_TAG_KERNEL (0xff) into the shadow for [base, watermark).  For
a vmapped task stack, vm_area->addr still carries the original random
allocation tag.  This creates a tag mismatch at the stack base even if
that memory has never held an instrumented stack object.

When the task exits and its stack is not cached, thread_stack_free_rcu()
passes vm_area->addr to vfree().  In RCU callback context this reaches
vfree_atomic(), whose llist_add() writes to the allocation base through
the tagged pointer and triggers a false KASAN invalid-access report:

  BUG: KASAN: invalid-access in vfree_atomic+0x90/0x150
  Write of size 8 at addr c2ffffc0a8f70000 by task rcuop/7/75
  Pointer tag: [c2], memory tag: [ff]
  Call trace:
   __hwasan_store8_noabort+0xe8/0xf8
   vfree_atomic+0x90/0x150
   vfree+0x220/0x298
   thread_stack_free_rcu+0x3c/0x4c
   rcu_do_batch+0x308/0xaf0
   rcu_nocb_cb_kthread+0x33c/0x708

The deferred-free path started using the tagged vm_area->addr in commit
449e0b4ed5 ("fork: clean-up naming of vm_stack/vm_struct variables in
vmap stacks code").  Previously it freed the untagged pointer derived from
tsk->stack, so the write was never tag-checked.

SW_TAGS does not need the blanket shadow reset to make subsequent stack
accesses valid: untagged kernel pointers have the match-all 0xff tag, and
the compiler initializes the shadow tags of instrumented stack objects
before use.

Return early unless CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC is enabled.  Keep the mode check
in the common helper so it covers both resume and bpf_throw().

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/[email protected]
Fixes: 449e0b4ed5 ("fork: clean-up naming of vm_stack/vm_struct variables in vmap stacks code")
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Shaobo Huang <[email protected]>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
Assisted-by: LLM
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <[email protected]>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <[email protected]>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <[email protected]>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
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