[PATCH v2 0/1] mm: kfence: fix unexpected leak scan on kfence pool

yee.lee at mediatek.com yee.lee at mediatek.com
Tue Jun 28 04:37:10 PDT 2022


From: Yee Lee <yee.lee at mediatek.com>

Since the latest patches of kmemleak separated its address management 
to two rb-trees, phys and virt, the kmemleak_free failed to free kfence_pool
from the virt tree. It caused unexpected scan the blocks and triggered
kfence faults.

Reference: 
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20220611035551.1823303-1-patrick.wang.shcn@gmail.com/

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 BUG: KFENCE: invalid read in scan_block+0x13c/0x838

  Invalid read at 0x000000003dc26873:
  scan_block+0x13c/0x838
  scan_gray_list+0x1f0/0x478
  kmemleak_scan+0x63c/0xd64
  kmemleak_write+0x618/0x8cc
  full_proxy_write+0x70/0x138
  vfs_write+0x108/0x314
  ksys_write+0x7c/0x14c
  __arm64_sys_write+0x20/0x30
  el0_svc_common+0xa8/0x144
  do_el0_svc+0x30/0xd4
  el0_svc+0x38/0x15c
  el0t_64_sync_handler+0x88/0xf8
  el0t_64_sync+0x1a0/0x1a4

 CPU: 0 PID: 128 Comm: sh Not tainted 5.18.0-mainline-40996-g7d83a175ff4a-dirty #1
 Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
 ==================================================================

This patch applies kmemleak_ignore_phys() to replace the original kmemleak_free and
adapts it to the late enabling case. 

v1->v2:
 - use kmemleak_ignore_phys() to bypass the scanning.
 - move out the freeing opeartion from late enabling as it's trivial.

Yee Lee (1):
  mm: kfence: apply kmemleak_ignore_phys on early allocated pool

 mm/kfence/core.c | 18 +++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

-- 
2.18.0




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