8 byte minimal SLAB alignment interferes with KASAN's granularity of 16 bytes. It causes a lot of out-of-bounds errors for unaligned 8 byte allocations. Compared to a kernel with KASAN disabled, the memory footprint increases because all kmalloc-8 allocations now are realized as kmalloc-16, which has twice the object size. But more meaningfully, when compared to a kernel with generic KASAN enabled, there is no difference. Because of redzones in generic KASAN, kmalloc-8' and kmalloc-16' object size is the same (48 bytes). So changing the minimal SLAB alignment of the tag-based mode doesn't have any negative impact when compared to the other software KASAN mode. Adjust x86 minimal SLAB alignment to match KASAN granularity size. Signed-off-by: Maciej Wieczor-Retman <maciej.wieczor-retman@xxxxxxxxx> --- Changelog v4: - Extend the patch message with some more context and impact information. Changelog v3: - Fix typo in patch message 4 -> 16. - Change define location to arch/x86/include/asm/cache.c. arch/x86/include/asm/cache.h | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cache.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cache.h index 69404eae9983..3232583b5487 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cache.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cache.h @@ -21,4 +21,8 @@ #endif #endif +#ifdef CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS +#define ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN (1ULL << KASAN_SHADOW_SCALE_SHIFT) +#endif + #endif /* _ASM_X86_CACHE_H */ -- 2.50.1
