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KernelAddressSANitizer (KASAN) is a dynamic memory error detector. It
provides a fast and comprehensive solution for finding use-after-free
and out-of-bounds bugs.
This adds support for KASan to barebox. It is basically a stripped down
version taken from the Linux Kernel as of v5.9-rc1.
Quoting the initial Linux commit 0b24becc810d ("kasan: add kernel address
sanitizer infrastructure") describes what KASan does:
| KASAN uses compile-time instrumentation for checking every memory access,
| therefore GCC > v4.9.2 required. v4.9.2 almost works, but has issues with
| putting symbol aliases into the wrong section, which breaks kasan
| instrumentation of globals.
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| Basic idea:
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| The main idea of KASAN is to use shadow memory to record whether each byte
| of memory is safe to access or not, and use compiler's instrumentation to
| check the shadow memory on each memory access.
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| Address sanitizer uses 1/8 of the memory addressable in kernel for shadow
| memory and uses direct mapping with a scale and offset to translate a
| memory address to its corresponding shadow address.
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| For every 8 bytes there is one corresponding byte of shadow memory.
| The following encoding used for each shadow byte: 0 means that all 8 bytes
| of the corresponding memory region are valid for access; k (1 <= k <= 7)
| means that the first k bytes are valid for access, and other (8 - k) bytes
| are not; Any negative value indicates that the entire 8-bytes are
| inaccessible. Different negative values used to distinguish between
| different kinds of inaccessible memory (redzones, freed memory) (see
| mm/kasan/kasan.h).
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| To be able to detect accesses to bad memory we need a special compiler.
| Such compiler inserts a specific function calls (__asan_load*(addr),
| __asan_store*(addr)) before each memory access of size 1, 2, 4, 8 or 16.
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| These functions check whether memory region is valid to access or not by
| checking corresponding shadow memory. If access is not valid an error
| printed.
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
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