[PATCH] KVM: arm64: Use kmemleak_free_part_phys() to unregister hyp_mem_base

Oliver Upton oliver.upton at linux.dev
Wed Sep 14 04:08:15 PDT 2022


On Thu, Sep 08, 2022 at 09:06:59PM +0800, Zenghui Yu wrote:
> With commit 0c24e061196c ("mm: kmemleak: add rbtree and store physical
> address for objects allocated with PA"), kmemleak started to put the
> objects allocated with physical address onto object_phys_tree_root tree.
> The kmemleak_free_part() therefore no longer worked as expected on
> physically allocated objects (hyp_mem_base in this case) as it attempted to
> search and remove things in object_tree_root tree.
> 
> Fix it by using kmemleak_free_part_phys() to unregister hyp_mem_base. This
> fixes an immediate crash when booting a KVM host in protected mode with
> kmemleak enabled.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui at huawei.com>

Reviewed-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton at linux.dev>

Marc or Paolo, do one of you want to pick this patch up? Looks like a
good fix.

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Thanks,
Oliver



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