[PATCH v3] KHO: Fix boot failure due to kmemleak access to non-PRESENT pages
ranxiaokai627 at 163.com
ranxiaokai627 at 163.com
Sun Nov 23 18:59:43 PST 2025
From: Ran Xiaokai <ran.xiaokai at zte.com.cn>
When booting with debug_pagealloc=on while having:
CONFIG_KEXEC_HANDOVER_ENABLE_DEFAULT=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=n
the system fails to boot due to page faults during kmemleak scanning.
This occurs because:
With debug_pagealloc is enabled, __free_pages() invokes
debug_pagealloc_unmap_pages(), clearing the _PAGE_PRESENT bit for
freed pages in the kernel page table.
KHO scratch areas are allocated from memblock and noted by kmemleak. But
these areas don't remain reserved but released later to the page allocator
using init_cma_reserved_pageblock(). This causes subsequent kmemleak scans
access non-PRESENT pages, leading to fatal page faults.
Mark scratch areas with kmemleak_ignore_phys() after they are allocated
from memblock to exclude them from kmemleak scanning before they are
released to buddy allocator to fix this.
Fixes: 3dc92c311498 ("kexec: add Kexec HandOver (KHO) generation helpers")
Signed-off-by: Ran Xiaokai <ran.xiaokai at zte.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt at kernel.org>
---
kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c b/kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c
index 224bdf5becb6..c729d455ee7b 100644
--- a/kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c
+++ b/kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
#include <linux/cleanup.h>
#include <linux/cma.h>
+#include <linux/kmemleak.h>
#include <linux/count_zeros.h>
#include <linux/kexec.h>
#include <linux/kexec_handover.h>
@@ -1369,6 +1370,7 @@ static __init int kho_init(void)
unsigned long count = kho_scratch[i].size >> PAGE_SHIFT;
unsigned long pfn;
+ kmemleak_ignore_phys(kho_scratch[i].addr);
for (pfn = base_pfn; pfn < base_pfn + count;
pfn += pageblock_nr_pages)
init_cma_reserved_pageblock(pfn_to_page(pfn));
--
2.25.1
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