* [merged] kasan-mm-untag-page-address-in-free_reserved_area.patch removed from -mm tree
@ 2020-12-23 18:29 akpm
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From: akpm @ 2020-12-23 18:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: akpm, andreyknvl, aryabinin, Branislav.Rankov, catalin.marinas,
dvyukov, elver, eugenis, glider, gor, kevin.brodsky, mm-commits,
vincenzo.frascino, will.deacon
The patch titled
Subject: kasan, mm: untag page address in free_reserved_area
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
kasan-mm-untag-page-address-in-free_reserved_area.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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From: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Subject: kasan, mm: untag page address in free_reserved_area
free_reserved_area() memsets the pages belonging to a given memory area.
As that memory hasn't been allocated via page_alloc, the KASAN tags that
those pages have are 0x00. As the result the memset might result in a tag
mismatch.
Untag the address to avoid spurious faults.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ebef6425f4468d063e2f09c1b62ccbb2236b71d3.1606161801.git.andreyknvl@google.com
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Tested-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Branislav Rankov <Branislav.Rankov@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Evgenii Stepanov <eugenis@google.com>
Cc: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c~kasan-mm-untag-page-address-in-free_reserved_area
+++ a/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -7671,6 +7671,11 @@ unsigned long free_reserved_area(void *s
* alias for the memset().
*/
direct_map_addr = page_address(page);
+ /*
+ * Perform a kasan-unchecked memset() since this memory
+ * has not been initialized.
+ */
+ direct_map_addr = kasan_reset_tag(direct_map_addr);
if ((unsigned int)poison <= 0xFF)
memset(direct_map_addr, poison, PAGE_SIZE);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from vincenzo.frascino@arm.com are
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