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* [PATCH] mm: page_alloc: ignore init_on_free=1 for page alloc
@ 2021-03-26 11:26 Sergei Trofimovich
  2021-03-26 13:48 ` David Hildenbrand
  2021-03-26 14:17 ` Vlastimil Babka
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 19+ messages in thread
From: Sergei Trofimovich @ 2021-03-26 11:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton, linux-mm; +Cc: linux-kernel, Sergei Trofimovich

init_on_free=1 does not guarantee that free pages contain only zero bytes.

Some examples:
1. page_poison=on takes presedence over init_on_alloc=1 / ini_on_free=1
2. free_pages_prepare() always poisons pages:

       if (want_init_on_free())
           kernel_init_free_pages(page, 1 << order);
       kernel_poison_pages(page, 1 << order

I observed use of poisoned pages as the crash on ia64 booted with
init_on_free=1 init_on_alloc=1 (CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y config).
There pmd page contained 0xaaaaaaaa poison pages and led to early crash.

The change drops the assumption that init_on_free=1 guarantees free
pages to contain zeros.

Alternative would be to make interaction between runtime poisoning and
sanitizing options and build-time debug flags like CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING
more coherent. I took the simpler path.

Tested the fix on rx3600.

CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
CC: linux-mm@kvack.org
Signed-off-by: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org>
---
 mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index cfc72873961d..d57d9b4f7089 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -2301,7 +2301,7 @@ inline void post_alloc_hook(struct page *page, unsigned int order,
 	kernel_unpoison_pages(page, 1 << order);
 	set_page_owner(page, order, gfp_flags);
 
-	if (!want_init_on_free() && want_init_on_alloc(gfp_flags))
+	if (want_init_on_alloc(gfp_flags))
 		kernel_init_free_pages(page, 1 << order);
 }
 
-- 
2.31.0


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2021-03-26 11:26 [PATCH] mm: page_alloc: ignore init_on_free=1 for page alloc Sergei Trofimovich
2021-03-26 13:48 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-26 15:00   ` Andrey Konovalov
2021-03-26 15:00     ` Andrey Konovalov
2021-03-26 16:42     ` Sergei Trofimovich
2021-03-29 12:10   ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-03-29 22:00     ` Andrey Konovalov
2021-03-29 22:00       ` Andrey Konovalov
2021-03-29 22:07       ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-03-30 14:48         ` Andrey Konovalov
2021-03-30 14:48           ` Andrey Konovalov
2021-03-26 14:17 ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-03-26 17:25   ` Sergei Trofimovich
2021-03-27 18:03     ` Sergei Trofimovich
2021-03-27 18:21       ` [PATCH v2] mm: page_alloc: ignore init_on_free=1 for debug_pagealloc=1 Sergei Trofimovich
2021-03-29  9:23         ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-29 11:59         ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-03-29 22:25           ` [PATCH v3] " Sergei Trofimovich
2021-03-30  8:39             ` David Hildenbrand

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