[PATCH v2] kasan, mm: fix crash with HW_TAGS and DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
Andrew Morton
akpm at linux-foundation.org
Fri Mar 5 23:49:56 GMT 2021
On Sat, 6 Mar 2021 00:36:33 +0100 Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl at google.com> wrote:
> Currently, kasan_free_nondeferred_pages()->kasan_free_pages() is called
> after debug_pagealloc_unmap_pages(). This causes a crash when
> debug_pagealloc is enabled, as HW_TAGS KASAN can't set tags on an
> unmapped page.
>
> This patch puts kasan_free_nondeferred_pages() before
> debug_pagealloc_unmap_pages() and arch_free_page(), which can also make
> the page unavailable.
>
> ...
>
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -1304,6 +1304,12 @@ static __always_inline bool free_pages_prepare(struct page *page,
>
> kernel_poison_pages(page, 1 << order);
>
> + /*
> + * With hardware tag-based KASAN, memory tags must be set before the
> + * page becomes unavailable via debug_pagealloc or arch_free_page.
> + */
> + kasan_free_nondeferred_pages(page, order, fpi_flags);
> +
> /*
> * arch_free_page() can make the page's contents inaccessible. s390
> * does this. So nothing which can access the page's contents should
> @@ -1313,8 +1319,6 @@ static __always_inline bool free_pages_prepare(struct page *page,
>
> debug_pagealloc_unmap_pages(page, 1 << order);
>
> - kasan_free_nondeferred_pages(page, order, fpi_flags);
> -
> return true;
> }
kasan_free_nondeferred_pages() has only two args in current mainline.
I fixed that in the obvious manner...
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