[PATCH] fixup! tlsf: Add tracking of added tlsf memory pools

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Fri Apr 11 00:14:13 PDT 2025


On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 12:46:25PM +0200, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> tlsf: fix KASAN poisoning of TLSF pool
> 
> By poisoning all of the heap after the first malloc, new_pool_entry
> becomes a pointer to poisoned memory, which causes a KASAN error right
> away at startup.
> 
> Move the kasan_poison_shadow call directly after tlsf_add_pool to
> fix this.
> 
> Cc: David Dgien <dgienda125 at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at pengutronix.de>
> ---
>  common/tlsf_malloc.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks

Sascha

> 
> diff --git a/common/tlsf_malloc.c b/common/tlsf_malloc.c
> index 4acf1c1c5071..6e9d48af26bb 100644
> --- a/common/tlsf_malloc.c
> +++ b/common/tlsf_malloc.c
> @@ -115,12 +115,12 @@ void *malloc_add_pool(void *mem, size_t bytes)
>  	if (!new_pool)
>  		return NULL;
>  
> +	kasan_poison_shadow(mem, bytes, KASAN_TAG_INVALID);
> +
>  	new_pool_entry = malloc(sizeof(*new_pool_entry));
>  	if (!new_pool_entry)
>  		return NULL;
>  
> -	kasan_poison_shadow(mem, bytes, KASAN_TAG_INVALID);
> -
>  	new_pool_entry->pool = new_pool;
>  	list_add(&new_pool_entry->list, &mem_pool_list);
>  
> -- 
> 2.39.5
> 
> 
> 

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