Commit 17a9399
slab,rcu: disable KVFREE_RCU_BATCHED for strict grace period
Disable CONFIG_KVFREE_RCU_BATCHED in CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD builds
so that kernel fuzzers have an easier time finding use-after-free involving
kfree_rcu().
The intent behind CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD is that RCU should invoke
callbacks and free objects as soon as possible (at a large performance
cost) so that kernel fuzzers and such have an easier time detecting
use-after-free bugs in objects with RCU lifetime.
CONFIG_KVFREE_RCU_BATCHED is a performance optimization that queues
RCU-freed objects in ways that CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD can't
expedite; for example, the following testcase doesn't trigger a KASAN splat
when CONFIG_KVFREE_RCU_BATCHED is enabled:
```
struct foo_struct {
struct rcu_head rcu;
int a;
};
struct foo_struct *foo = kmalloc(sizeof(*foo),
GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL | __GFP_ZERO);
pr_info("%s: calling kfree_rcu()\n", __func__);
kfree_rcu(foo, rcu);
msleep(10);
pr_info("%s: start UAF access\n", __func__);
READ_ONCE(foo->a);
pr_info("%s: end UAF access\n", __func__);
```
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Harry Yoo (Oracle) <harry@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260324-kasan-kfree-rcu-v1-1-ac58a7a13d03@google.com
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>1 parent 9042e77 commit 17a9399
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