[PATCH] arm64: mm: kfence: only handle translation faults
Will Deacon
will at kernel.org
Tue Nov 15 10:32:57 PST 2022
On Mon, 14 Nov 2022 10:44:11 +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> Alexander noted that KFENCE only expects to handle faults from invalid page
> table entries (i.e. translation faults), but arm64's fault handling logic will
> call kfence_handle_page_fault() for other types of faults, including alignment
> faults caused by unaligned atomics. This has the unfortunate property of
> causing those other faults to be reported as "KFENCE: use-after-free",
> which is misleading and hinders debugging.
>
> [...]
Applied to arm64 (for-next/mm), thanks!
[1/1] arm64: mm: kfence: only handle translation faults
https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/0bb1fbffc631
Cheers,
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