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Randomize the KFENCE freelist during pool initialization to make
allocation patterns less predictable. This is achieved by shuffling the
order in which metadata objects are added to the freelist using
get_random_u32_below().
Additionally, ensure the error path correctly calculates the address range
to be reset if initialization fails, as the address increment logic has
been moved to a separate loop.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260120161510.3289089-1-pimyn@google.com
Fixes: 0ce20dd84089 ("mm: add Kernel Electric-Fence infrastructure")
Signed-off-by: Pimyn Girgis <pimyn@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Ernesto Martnez Garca <ernesto.martinezgarcia@tugraz.at>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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The reboot notifier callback can deadlock when calling
cancel_delayed_work_sync() if toggle_allocation_gate() is blocked in
wait_event_idle() waiting for allocations, that might not happen on
shutdown path.
The issue is that cancel_delayed_work_sync() waits for the work to
complete, but the work is waiting for kfence_allocation_gate > 0 which
requires allocations to happen (each allocation is increased by 1) -
allocations that may have stopped during shutdown.
Fix this by:
1. Using cancel_delayed_work() (non-sync) to avoid blocking. Now the
callback succeeds and return.
2. Adding wake_up() to unblock any waiting toggle_allocation_gate()
3. Adding !kfence_enabled to the wait condition so the wake succeeds
The static_branch_disable() IPI will still execute after the wake, but at
this early point in shutdown (reboot notifier runs with INT_MAX priority),
the system is still functional and CPUs can respond to IPIs.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260116-kfence_fix-v1-1-4165a055933f@debian.org
Fixes: ce2bba89566b ("mm/kfence: add reboot notifier to disable KFENCE on shutdown")
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Reported-by: Chris Mason <clm@meta.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260113140234.677117-1-clm@meta.com/
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@meta.com>
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
"__vmalloc()/kvmalloc() and no-block support" (Uladzislau Rezki)
Rework the vmalloc() code to support non-blocking allocations
(GFP_ATOIC, GFP_NOWAIT)
"ksm: fix exec/fork inheritance" (xu xin)
Fix a rare case where the KSM MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY prctl state is not
inherited across fork/exec
"mm/zswap: misc cleanup of code and documentations" (SeongJae Park)
Some light maintenance work on the zswap code
"mm/page_owner: add debugfs files 'show_handles' and 'show_stacks_handles'" (Mauricio Faria de Oliveira)
Enhance the /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner debug feature by adding
unique identifiers to differentiate the various stack traces so
that userspace monitoring tools can better match stack traces over
time
"mm/page_alloc: pcp->batch cleanups" (Joshua Hahn)
Minor alterations to the page allocator's per-cpu-pages feature
"Improve UFFDIO_MOVE scalability by removing anon_vma lock" (Lokesh Gidra)
Address a scalability issue in userfaultfd's UFFDIO_MOVE operation
"kasan: cleanups for kasan_enabled() checks" (Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov)
"drivers/base/node: fold node register and unregister functions" (Donet Tom)
Clean up the NUMA node handling code a little
"mm: some optimizations for prot numa" (Kefeng Wang)
Cleanups and small optimizations to the NUMA allocation hinting
code
"mm/page_alloc: Batch callers of free_pcppages_bulk" (Joshua Hahn)
Address long lock hold times at boot on large machines. These were
causing (harmless) softlockup warnings
"optimize the logic for handling dirty file folios during reclaim" (Baolin Wang)
Remove some now-unnecessary work from page reclaim
"mm/damon: allow DAMOS auto-tuned for per-memcg per-node memory usage" (SeongJae Park)
Enhance the DAMOS auto-tuning feature
"mm/damon: fixes for address alignment issues in DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" (Quanmin Yan)
Fix DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM with certain userspace
configuration
"expand mmap_prepare functionality, port more users" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Enhance the new(ish) file_operations.mmap_prepare() method and port
additional callsites from the old ->mmap() over to ->mmap_prepare()
"Fix stale IOTLB entries for kernel address space" (Lu Baolu)
Fix a bug (and possible security issue on non-x86) in the IOMMU
code. In some situations the IOMMU could be left hanging onto a
stale kernel pagetable entry
"mm/huge_memory: cleanup __split_unmapped_folio()" (Wei Yang)
Clean up and optimize the folio splitting code
"mm, swap: misc cleanup and bugfix" (Kairui Song)
Some cleanups and a minor fix in the swap discard code
"mm/damon: misc documentation fixups" (SeongJae Park)
"mm/damon: support pin-point targets removal" (SeongJae Park)
Permit userspace to remove a specific monitoring target in the
middle of the current targets list
"mm: MISC follow-up patches for linux/pgalloc.h" (Harry Yoo)
A couple of cleanups related to mm header file inclusion
"mm/swapfile.c: select swap devices of default priority round robin" (Baoquan He)
improve the selection of swap devices for NUMA machines
"mm: Convert memory block states (MEM_*) macros to enums" (Israel Batista)
Change the memory block labels from macros to enums so they will
appear in kernel debug info
"ksm: perform a range-walk to jump over holes in break_ksm" (Pedro Demarchi Gomes)
Address an inefficiency when KSM unmerges an address range
"mm/damon/tests: fix memory bugs in kunit tests" (SeongJae Park)
Fix leaks and unhandled malloc() failures in DAMON userspace unit
tests
"some cleanups for pageout()" (Baolin Wang)
Clean up a couple of minor things in the page scanner's
writeback-for-eviction code
"mm/hugetlb: refactor sysfs/sysctl interfaces" (Hui Zhu)
Move hugetlb's sysfs/sysctl handling code into a new file
"introduce VM_MAYBE_GUARD and make it sticky" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Make the VMA guard regions available in /proc/pid/smaps and
improves the mergeability of guarded VMAs
"mm: perform guard region install/remove under VMA lock" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Reduce mmap lock contention for callers performing VMA guard region
operations
"vma_start_write_killable" (Matthew Wilcox)
Start work on permitting applications to be killed when they are
waiting on a read_lock on the VMA lock
"mm/damon/tests: add more tests for online parameters commit" (SeongJae Park)
Add additional userspace testing of DAMON's "commit" feature
"mm/damon: misc cleanups" (SeongJae Park)
"make VM_SOFTDIRTY a sticky VMA flag" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Address the possible loss of a VMA's VM_SOFTDIRTY flag when that
VMA is merged with another
"mm: support device-private THP" (Balbir Singh)
Introduce support for Transparent Huge Page (THP) migration in zone
device-private memory
"Optimize folio split in memory failure" (Zi Yan)
"mm/huge_memory: Define split_type and consolidate split support checks" (Wei Yang)
Some more cleanups in the folio splitting code
"mm: remove is_swap_[pte, pmd]() + non-swap entries, introduce leaf entries" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Clean up our handling of pagetable leaf entries by introducing the
concept of 'software leaf entries', of type softleaf_t
"reparent the THP split queue" (Muchun Song)
Reparent the THP split queue to its parent memcg. This is in
preparation for addressing the long-standing "dying memcg" problem,
wherein dead memcg's linger for too long, consuming memory
resources
"unify PMD scan results and remove redundant cleanup" (Wei Yang)
A little cleanup in the hugepage collapse code
"zram: introduce writeback bio batching" (Sergey Senozhatsky)
Improve zram writeback efficiency by introducing batched bio
writeback support
"memcg: cleanup the memcg stats interfaces" (Shakeel Butt)
Clean up our handling of the interrupt safety of some memcg stats
"make vmalloc gfp flags usage more apparent" (Vishal Moola)
Clean up vmalloc's handling of incoming GFP flags
"mm: Add soft-dirty and uffd-wp support for RISC-V" (Chunyan Zhang)
Teach soft dirty and userfaultfd write protect tracking to use
RISC-V's Svrsw60t59b extension
"mm: swap: small fixes and comment cleanups" (Youngjun Park)
Fix a small bug and clean up some of the swap code
"initial work on making VMA flags a bitmap" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Start work on converting the vma struct's flags to a bitmap, so we
stop running out of them, especially on 32-bit
"mm/swapfile: fix and cleanup swap list iterations" (Youngjun Park)
Address a possible bug in the swap discard code and clean things
up a little
[ This merge also reverts commit ebb9aeb980e5 ("vfio/nvgrace-gpu:
register device memory for poison handling") because it looks
broken to me, I've asked for clarification - Linus ]
* tag 'mm-stable-2025-12-03-21-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (321 commits)
mm: fix vma_start_write_killable() signal handling
mm/swapfile: use plist_for_each_entry in __folio_throttle_swaprate
mm/swapfile: fix list iteration when next node is removed during discard
fs/proc/task_mmu.c: fix make_uffd_wp_huge_pte() huge pte handling
mm/kfence: add reboot notifier to disable KFENCE on shutdown
memcg: remove inc/dec_lruvec_kmem_state helpers
selftests/mm/uffd: initialize char variable to Null
mm: fix DEBUG_RODATA_TEST indentation in Kconfig
mm: introduce VMA flags bitmap type
tools/testing/vma: eliminate dependency on vma->__vm_flags
mm: simplify and rename mm flags function for clarity
mm: declare VMA flags by bit
zram: fix a spelling mistake
mm/page_alloc: optimize lowmem_reserve max lookup using its semantic monotonicity
mm/vmscan: skip increasing kswapd_failures when reclaim was boosted
pagemap: update BUDDY flag documentation
mm: swap: remove scan_swap_map_slots() references from comments
mm: swap: change swap_alloc_slow() to void
mm, swap: remove redundant comment for read_swap_cache_async
mm, swap: use SWP_SOLIDSTATE to determine if swap is rotational
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During system shutdown, KFENCE can cause IPI synchronization issues if it
remains active through the reboot process. To prevent this, register a
reboot notifier that disables KFENCE and cancels any pending timer work
early in the shutdown sequence.
This is only necessary when CONFIG_KFENCE_STATIC_KEYS is enabled, as this
configuration sends IPIs that can interfere with shutdown. Without static
keys, no IPIs are generated and KFENCE can safely remain active.
The notifier uses maximum priority (INT_MAX) to ensure KFENCE shuts down
before other subsystems that might still depend on stable memory
allocation behavior.
This fixes a late kexec CSD lockup[1] when kfence is trying to IPI a CPU
that is busy in a IRQ-disabled context printing characters to the console.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251127-kfence-v2-1-daeccb5ef9aa@debian.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251126-kfence-v1-1-5a6e1d7c681c@debian.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/sqwajvt7utnt463tzxgwu2yctyn5m6bjwrslsnupfexeml6hkd@v6sqmpbu3vvu/ [1]
Fixes: 0ce20dd84089 ("mm: add Kernel Electric-Fence infrastructure")
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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In order to separate slabs from folios, we need to convert from any page
in a slab to the slab directly without going through a page to folio
conversion first.
Up to this point, page_slab() has followed the example of other memdesc
converters (page_folio(), page_ptdesc() etc) and just cast the pointer
to the requested type, regardless of whether the pointer is actually a
pointer to the correct type or not.
That changes with this commit; we check that the page actually belongs
to a slab and return NULL if it does not. Other memdesc converters will
adopt this convention in future.
kfence was the only user of page_slab(), so adjust it to the new way
of working. It will need to be touched again when we separate slab
from page.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: kasan-dev@googlegroups.com
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251113000932.1589073-2-willy@infradead.org
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
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We want to get rid of nth_page(), and kfence init code is the last user.
Unfortunately, we might actually walk a PFN range where the pages are not
contiguous, because we might be allocating an area from memblock that
could span memory sections in problematic kernel configs (SPARSEMEM
without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP).
We could check whether the page range is contiguous using
page_range_contiguous() and failing kfence init, or making kfence
incompatible these problemtic kernel configs.
Let's keep it simple and simply use pfn_to_page() by iterating PFNs.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901150359.867252-36-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Improve the documentation slightly, assuming I understood it correctly.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250611155916.2579160-10-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
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On NUMA systems, __GFP_THISNODE indicates that an allocation _must_ be on
a particular node, and failure to allocate on the desired node will result
in a failed allocation.
Skip __GFP_THISNODE allocations if we are running on a NUMA system, since
KFENCE can't guarantee which node its pool pages are allocated on.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250124120145.410066-1-elver@google.com
Fixes: 236e9f153852 ("kfence: skip all GFP_ZONEMASK allocations")
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Reported-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Chistoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Remove hard-coded strings by using the str_write_read() helper function.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250115155511.954535-2-thorsten.blum@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
Suggested-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Faults from copy_from_kernel_nofault() need to be handled by fixup table
and should not be handled by kfence. Otherwise while reading /proc/kcore
which uses copy_from_kernel_nofault(), kfence can generate false
negatives. This can happen when /proc/kcore ends up reading an unmapped
address from kfence pool.
Let's add a testcase to cover this case.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/210e561f7845697a32de44b643393890f180069f.1729272697.git.ritesh.list@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Nirjhar Roy <nirjhar@linux.ibm.com>
Co-developed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Fix elapsed time for the allocated/freed track introduced by commit
62e73fd85d7bf.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240924085004.75401-1-qiwu.chen@transsion.com
Fixes: 62e73fd85d7b ("mm: kfence: print the elapsed time for allocated/freed track")
Signed-off-by: qiwu.chen <qiwu.chen@transsion.com>
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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For kmem_cache with SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU, the freeing trace stack at
calling kmem_cache_free() is more useful. While the following stack is
meaningless and provides no help:
freed by task 46 on cpu 0 at 656.840729s:
rcu_do_batch+0x1ab/0x540
nocb_cb_wait+0x8f/0x260
rcu_nocb_cb_kthread+0x25/0x80
kthread+0xd2/0x100
ret_from_fork+0x34/0x50
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240812095517.2357-1-dtcccc@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Tianchen Ding <dtcccc@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Print the elapsed time for the allocated or freed track, which can be
useful in some debugging scenarios.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240807025627.37419-1-qiwu.chen@transsion.com
Signed-off-by: qiwu.chen <qiwu.chen@transsion.com>
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: chenqiwu <qiwu.chen@transsion.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Introduce burst mode, which can be configured with kfence.burst=$count,
where the burst count denotes the additional successive slab allocations
to be allocated through KFENCE for each sample interval.
The idea is that this can give developers an additional knob to make
KFENCE more aggressive when debugging specific issues of systems where
either rebooting or recompiling the kernel with KASAN is not possible.
Experiment: To assess the effectiveness of the new option, we randomly
picked a recent out-of-bounds [1] and use-after-free bug [2], each with a
reproducer provided by syzbot, that initially detected these bugs with
KASAN. We then tried to reproduce the bugs with KFENCE below.
[1] Fixed by: 7c55b78818cf ("jfs: xattr: fix buffer overflow for invalid xattr")
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=9d1b59d4718239da6f6069d3891863c25f9f24a2
[2] Fixed by: f8ad00f3fb2a ("l2tp: fix possible UAF when cleaning up tunnels")
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=4f34adc84f4a3b080187c390eeef60611fd450e1
The following KFENCE configs were compared. A pool size of 1023 objects
was used for all configurations.
Baseline
kfence.sample_interval=100
kfence.skip_covered_thresh=75
kfence.burst=0
Aggressive
kfence.sample_interval=1
kfence.skip_covered_thresh=10
kfence.burst=0
AggressiveBurst
kfence.sample_interval=1
kfence.skip_covered_thresh=10
kfence.burst=1000
Each reproducer was run 10 times (after a fresh reboot), with the
following detection counts for each KFENCE config:
| Detection Count out of 10 |
| OOB [1] | UAF [2] |
------------------+-------------+-------------+
Default | 0/10 | 0/10 |
Aggressive | 0/10 | 0/10 |
AggressiveBurst | 8/10 | 8/10 |
With the Default and even the Aggressive configs the results are
unsurprising, given KFENCE has not been designed for deterministic bug
detection of small test cases.
However, when enabling burst mode with relatively large burst count,
KFENCE can start to detect heap memory-safety bugs even in simpler test
cases with high probability (in the above cases with ~80% probability).
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240805124203.2692278-1-elver@google.com
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM used to be a user-visible option for whether slab
tracking is enabled. It has been default-enabled and equivalent to
CONFIG_MEMCG for almost a decade. We've only grown more kernel memory
accounting sites since, and there is no imaginable cgroup usecase going
forward that wants to track user pages but not the multitude of
user-drivable kernel allocations.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240701153148.452230-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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KMSAN warns about check_canary() accessing the canary.
The reason is that, even though set_canary() is properly instrumented and
sets shadow, slub explicitly poisons the canary's address range
afterwards.
Unpoisoning the canary is not the right thing to do: only check_canary()
is supposed to ever touch it. Instead, disable KMSAN checks around canary
read accesses.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240621113706.315500-20-iii@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Tested-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: <kasan-dev@googlegroups.com>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Fix the 'make W=1' warning:
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in mm/kfence/kfence_test.o
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240513-mm-md-v1-3-8c20e7d26842@quicinc.com
Signed-off-by: Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@quicinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Currently slab pages can store only vectors of obj_cgroup pointers in
page->memcg_data. Introduce slabobj_ext structure to allow more data to
be stored for each slab object. Wrap obj_cgroup into slabobj_ext to
support current functionality while allowing to extend slabobj_ext in the
future.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240321163705.3067592-7-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>
Cc: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Cc: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@samsung.com>
Cc: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me>
Cc: "Björn Roy Baron" <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Cc: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Some struct slab fields are initialized differently for SLAB and SLUB so
we can simplify with SLUB being the only remaining allocator.
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Tested-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chenhuacai/linux-loongson
Pull LoongArch updates from Huacai Chen:
- Allow usage of LSX/LASX in the kernel, and use them for
SIMD-optimized RAID5/RAID6 routines
- Add Loongson Binary Translation (LBT) extension support
- Add basic KGDB & KDB support
- Add building with kcov coverage
- Add KFENCE (Kernel Electric-Fence) support
- Add KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) support
- Some bug fixes and other small changes
- Update the default config file
* tag 'loongarch-6.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chenhuacai/linux-loongson: (25 commits)
LoongArch: Update Loongson-3 default config file
LoongArch: Add KASAN (Kernel Address Sanitizer) support
LoongArch: Simplify the processing of jumping new kernel for KASLR
kasan: Add (pmd|pud)_init for LoongArch zero_(pud|p4d)_populate process
kasan: Add __HAVE_ARCH_SHADOW_MAP to support arch specific mapping
LoongArch: Add KFENCE (Kernel Electric-Fence) support
LoongArch: Get partial stack information when providing regs parameter
LoongArch: mm: Add page table mapped mode support for virt_to_page()
kfence: Defer the assignment of the local variable addr
LoongArch: Allow building with kcov coverage
LoongArch: Provide kaslr_offset() to get kernel offset
LoongArch: Add basic KGDB & KDB support
LoongArch: Add Loongson Binary Translation (LBT) extension support
raid6: Add LoongArch SIMD recovery implementation
raid6: Add LoongArch SIMD syndrome calculation
LoongArch: Add SIMD-optimized XOR routines
LoongArch: Allow usage of LSX/LASX in the kernel
LoongArch: Define symbol 'fault' as a local label in fpu.S
LoongArch: Adjust {copy, clear}_user exception handler behavior
LoongArch: Use static defined zero page rather than allocated
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The LoongArch architecture is different from other architectures. It
needs to update __kfence_pool during arch_kfence_init_pool().
This patch modifies the assignment location of the local variable addr
in the kfence_init_pool() function to support the case of updating
__kfence_pool in arch_kfence_init_pool().
Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Enze Li <lienze@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- An extensive rework of kexec and crash Kconfig from Eric DeVolder
("refactor Kconfig to consolidate KEXEC and CRASH options")
- kernel.h slimming work from Andy Shevchenko ("kernel.h: Split out a
couple of macros to args.h")
- gdb feature work from Kuan-Ying Lee ("Add GDB memory helper
commands")
- vsprintf inclusion rationalization from Andy Shevchenko
("lib/vsprintf: Rework header inclusions")
- Switch the handling of kdump from a udev scheme to in-kernel
handling, by Eric DeVolder ("crash: Kernel handling of CPU and memory
hot un/plug")
- Many singleton patches to various parts of the tree
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-08-28-22-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (81 commits)
document while_each_thread(), change first_tid() to use for_each_thread()
drivers/char/mem.c: shrink character device's devlist[] array
x86/crash: optimize CPU changes
crash: change crash_prepare_elf64_headers() to for_each_possible_cpu()
crash: hotplug support for kexec_load()
x86/crash: add x86 crash hotplug support
crash: memory and CPU hotplug sysfs attributes
kexec: exclude elfcorehdr from the segment digest
crash: add generic infrastructure for crash hotplug support
crash: move a few code bits to setup support of crash hotplug
kstrtox: consistently use _tolower()
kill do_each_thread()
nilfs2: fix WARNING in mark_buffer_dirty due to discarded buffer reuse
scripts/bloat-o-meter: count weak symbol sizes
treewide: drop CONFIG_EMBEDDED
lockdep: fix static memory detection even more
lib/vsprintf: declare no_hash_pointers in sprintf.h
lib/vsprintf: split out sprintf() and friends
kernel/fork: stop playing lockless games for exe_file replacement
adfs: delete unused "union adfs_dirtail" definition
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- Some swap cleanups from Ma Wupeng ("fix WARN_ON in
add_to_avail_list")
- Peter Xu has a series (mm/gup: Unify hugetlb, speed up thp") which
reduces the special-case code for handling hugetlb pages in GUP. It
also speeds up GUP handling of transparent hugepages.
- Peng Zhang provides some maple tree speedups ("Optimize the fast path
of mas_store()").
- Sergey Senozhatsky has improved te performance of zsmalloc during
compaction (zsmalloc: small compaction improvements").
- Domenico Cerasuolo has developed additional selftest code for zswap
("selftests: cgroup: add zswap test program").
- xu xin has doe some work on KSM's handling of zero pages. These
changes are mainly to enable the user to better understand the
effectiveness of KSM's treatment of zero pages ("ksm: support
tracking KSM-placed zero-pages").
- Jeff Xu has fixes the behaviour of memfd's
MEMFD_NOEXEC_SCOPE_NOEXEC_ENFORCED sysctl ("mm/memfd: fix sysctl
MEMFD_NOEXEC_SCOPE_NOEXEC_ENFORCED").
- David Howells has fixed an fscache optimization ("mm, netfs, fscache:
Stop read optimisation when folio removed from pagecache").
- Axel Rasmussen has given userfaultfd the ability to simulate memory
poisoning ("add UFFDIO_POISON to simulate memory poisoning with
UFFD").
- Miaohe Lin has contributed some routine maintenance work on the
memory-failure code ("mm: memory-failure: remove unneeded PageHuge()
check").
- Peng Zhang has contributed some maintenance work on the maple tree
code ("Improve the validation for maple tree and some cleanup").
- Hugh Dickins has optimized the collapsing of shmem or file pages into
THPs ("mm: free retracted page table by RCU").
- Jiaqi Yan has a patch series which permits us to use the healthy
subpages within a hardware poisoned huge page for general purposes
("Improve hugetlbfs read on HWPOISON hugepages").
- Kemeng Shi has done some maintenance work on the pagetable-check code
("Remove unused parameters in page_table_check").
- More folioification work from Matthew Wilcox ("More filesystem folio
conversions for 6.6"), ("Followup folio conversions for zswap"). And
from ZhangPeng ("Convert several functions in page_io.c to use a
folio").
- page_ext cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("minor cleanups for page_ext").
- Baoquan He has converted some architectures to use the
GENERIC_IOREMAP ioremap()/iounmap() code ("mm: ioremap: Convert
architectures to take GENERIC_IOREMAP way").
- Anshuman Khandual has optimized arm64 tlb shootdown ("arm64: support
batched/deferred tlb shootdown during page reclamation/migration").
- Better maple tree lockdep checking from Liam Howlett ("More strict
maple tree lockdep"). Liam also developed some efficiency
improvements ("Reduce preallocations for maple tree").
- Cleanup and optimization to the secondary IOMMU TLB invalidation,
from Alistair Popple ("Invalidate secondary IOMMU TLB on permission
upgrade").
- Ryan Roberts fixes some arm64 MM selftest issues ("selftests/mm fixes
for arm64").
- Kemeng Shi provides some maintenance work on the compaction code
("Two minor cleanups for compaction").
- Some reduction in mmap_lock pressure from Matthew Wilcox ("Handle
most file-backed faults under the VMA lock").
- Aneesh Kumar contributes code to use the vmemmap optimization for DAX
on ppc64, under some circumstances ("Add support for DAX vmemmap
optimization for ppc64").
- page-ext cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("add page_ext_data to get client
data in page_ext"), ("minor cleanups to page_ext header").
- Some zswap cleanups from Johannes Weiner ("mm: zswap: three
cleanups").
- kmsan cleanups from ZhangPeng ("minor cleanups for kmsan").
- VMA handling cleanups from Kefeng Wang ("mm: convert to
vma_is_initial_heap/stack()").
- DAMON feature work from SeongJae Park ("mm/damon/sysfs-schemes:
implement DAMOS tried total bytes file"), ("Extend DAMOS filters for
address ranges and DAMON monitoring targets").
- Compaction work from Kemeng Shi ("Fixes and cleanups to compaction").
- Liam Howlett has improved the maple tree node replacement code
("maple_tree: Change replacement strategy").
- ZhangPeng has a general code cleanup - use the K() macro more widely
("cleanup with helper macro K()").
- Aneesh Kumar brings memmap-on-memory to ppc64 ("Add support for
memmap on memory feature on ppc64").
- pagealloc cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("Two minor cleanups for pcp list
in page_alloc"), ("Two minor cleanups for get pageblock
migratetype").
- Vishal Moola introduces a memory descriptor for page table tracking,
"struct ptdesc" ("Split ptdesc from struct page").
- memfd selftest maintenance work from Aleksa Sarai ("memfd: cleanups
for vm.memfd_noexec").
- MM include file rationalization from Hugh Dickins ("arch: include
asm/cacheflush.h in asm/hugetlb.h").
- THP debug output fixes from Hugh Dickins ("mm,thp: fix sloppy text
output").
- kmemleak improvements from Xiaolei Wang ("mm/kmemleak: use
object_cache instead of kmemleak_initialized").
- More folio-related cleanups from Matthew Wilcox ("Remove _folio_dtor
and _folio_order").
- A VMA locking scalability improvement from Suren Baghdasaryan
("Per-VMA lock support for swap and userfaults").
- pagetable handling cleanups from Matthew Wilcox ("New page table
range API").
- A batch of swap/thp cleanups from David Hildenbrand ("mm/swap: stop
using page->private on tail pages for THP_SWAP + cleanups").
- Cleanups and speedups to the hugetlb fault handling from Matthew
Wilcox ("Change calling convention for ->huge_fault").
- Matthew Wilcox has also done some maintenance work on the MM
subsystem documentation ("Improve mm documentation").
* tag 'mm-stable-2023-08-28-18-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (489 commits)
maple_tree: shrink struct maple_tree
maple_tree: clean up mas_wr_append()
secretmem: convert page_is_secretmem() to folio_is_secretmem()
nios2: fix flush_dcache_page() for usage from irq context
hugetlb: add documentation for vma_kernel_pagesize()
mm: add orphaned kernel-doc to the rst files.
mm: fix clean_record_shared_mapping_range kernel-doc
mm: fix get_mctgt_type() kernel-doc
mm: fix kernel-doc warning from tlb_flush_rmaps()
mm: remove enum page_entry_size
mm: allow ->huge_fault() to be called without the mmap_lock held
mm: move PMD_ORDER to pgtable.h
mm: remove checks for pte_index
memcg: remove duplication detection for mem_cgroup_uncharge_swap
mm/huge_memory: work on folio->swap instead of page->private when splitting folio
mm/swap: inline folio_set_swap_entry() and folio_swap_entry()
mm/swap: use dedicated entry for swap in folio
mm/swap: stop using page->private on tail pages for THP_SWAP
selftests/mm: fix WARNING comparing pointer to 0
selftests: cgroup: fix test_kmem_memcg_deletion kernel mem check
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Sparse is not happy to see non-static variable without declaration:
lib/vsprintf.c:61:6: warning: symbol 'no_hash_pointers' was not declared.
Should it be static?
Declare respective variable in the sprintf.h. With this, add a comment to
discourage its use if no real need.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230814163344.17429-3-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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kfence_metadata is currently a static array. For the purpose of
allocating scalable __kfence_pool, we first change it to runtime
allocation of metadata. Since the size of an object of kfence_metadata is
1160 bytes, we can save at least 72 pages (with default 256 objects)
without enabling kfence.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: restore newline, per Marco]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230718073019.52513-1-zhangpeng.00@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Peng Zhang <zhangpeng.00@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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When exploiting memory vulnerabilities, "heap spraying" is a common
technique targeting those related to dynamic memory allocation (i.e. the
"heap"), and it plays an important role in a successful exploitation.
Basically, it is to overwrite the memory area of vulnerable object by
triggering allocation in other subsystems or modules and therefore
getting a reference to the targeted memory location. It's usable on
various types of vulnerablity including use after free (UAF), heap out-
of-bound write and etc.
There are (at least) two reasons why the heap can be sprayed: 1) generic
slab caches are shared among different subsystems and modules, and
2) dedicated slab caches could be merged with the generic ones.
Currently these two factors cannot be prevented at a low cost: the first
one is a widely used memory allocation mechanism, and shutting down slab
merging completely via `slub_nomerge` would be overkill.
To efficiently prevent heap spraying, we propose the following approach:
to create multiple copies of generic slab caches that will never be
merged, and random one of them will be used at allocation. The random
selection is based on the address of code that calls `kmalloc()`, which
means it is static at runtime (rather than dynamically determined at
each time of allocation, which could be bypassed by repeatedly spraying
in brute force). In other words, the randomness of cache selection will
be with respect to the code address rather than time, i.e. allocations
in different code paths would most likely pick different caches,
although kmalloc() at each place would use the same cache copy whenever
it is executed. In this way, the vulnerable object and memory allocated
in other subsystems and modules will (most probably) be on different
slab caches, which prevents the object from being sprayed.
Meanwhile, the static random selection is further enhanced with a
per-boot random seed, which prevents the attacker from finding a usable
kmalloc that happens to pick the same cache with the vulnerable
subsystem/module by analyzing the open source code. In other words, with
the per-boot seed, the random selection is static during each time the
system starts and runs, but not across different system startups.
The overhead of performance has been tested on a 40-core x86 server by
comparing the results of `perf bench all` between the kernels with and
without this patch based on the latest linux-next kernel, which shows
minor difference. A subset of benchmarks are listed below:
sched/ sched/ syscall/ mem/ mem/
messaging pipe basic memcpy memset
(sec) (sec) (sec) (GB/sec) (GB/sec)
control1 0.019 5.459 0.733 15.258789 51.398026
control2 0.019 5.439 0.730 16.009221 48.828125
control3 0.019 5.282 0.735 16.009221 48.828125
control_avg 0.019 5.393 0.733 15.759077 49.684759
experiment1 0.019 5.374 0.741 15.500992 46.502976
experiment2 0.019 5.440 0.746 16.276042 51.398026
experiment3 0.019 5.242 0.752 15.258789 51.398026
experiment_avg 0.019 5.352 0.746 15.678608 49.766343
The overhead of memory usage was measured by executing `free` after boot
on a QEMU VM with 1GB total memory, and as expected, it's positively
correlated with # of cache copies:
control 4 copies 8 copies 16 copies
total 969.8M 968.2M 968.2M 968.2M
used 20.0M 21.9M 24.1M 26.7M
free 936.9M 933.6M 931.4M 928.6M
available 932.2M 928.8M 926.6M 923.9M
Co-developed-by: Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: GONG, Ruiqi <gongruiqi@huaweicloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org> # percpu
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
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Allow API users of kmem_cache_create to specify that they don't want
any slab merge or aliasing (with similar sized objects). Use this in
kfence_test.
The SKB (sk_buff) kmem_cache slab is critical for network performance.
Network stack uses kmem_cache_{alloc,free}_bulk APIs to gain
performance by amortising the alloc/free cost.
For the bulk API to perform efficiently the slub fragmentation need to
be low. Especially for the SLUB allocator, the efficiency of bulk free
API depend on objects belonging to the same slab (page).
When running different network performance microbenchmarks, I started
to notice that performance was reduced (slightly) when machines had
longer uptimes. I believe the cause was 'skbuff_head_cache' got
aliased/merged into the general slub for 256 bytes sized objects (with
my kernel config, without CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY).
For SKB kmem_cache network stack have reasons for not merging, but it
varies depending on kernel config (e.g. CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY).
We want to explicitly set SLAB_NO_MERGE for this kmem_cache.
Another use case for the flag has been described by David Sterba [1]:
> This can be used for more fine grained control over the caches or for
> debugging builds where separate slabs can verify that no objects leak.
> The slab_nomerge boot option is too coarse and would need to be
> enabled on all testing hosts. There are some other ways how to disable
> merging, e.g. a slab constructor but this disables poisoning besides
> that it adds additional overhead. Other flags are internal and may
> have other semantics.
> A concrete example what motivates the flag. During 'btrfs balance'
> slab top reported huge increase in caches like
> 1330095 1330095 100% 0.10K 34105 39 136420K Acpi-ParseExt
> 1734684 1734684 100% 0.14K 61953 28 247812K pid_namespace
> 8244036 6873075 83% 0.11K 229001 36 916004K khugepaged_mm_slot
> which was confusing and that it's because of slab merging was not the
> first idea. After rebooting with slab_nomerge all the caches were
> from btrfs_ namespace as expected.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230524101748.30714-1-dsterba@suse.com/
[ vbabka@suse.cz: rename to SLAB_NO_MERGE, change the flag value to the
one proposed by David so it does not collide with internal SLAB/SLUB
flags, write a comment for the flag, expand changelog, drop the skbuff
part to be handled spearately ]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/167396280045.539803.7540459812377220500.stgit@firesoul/
Reported-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
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Since commit 1ba3cbf3ec3b ("mm: kfence: improve the performance of
__kfence_alloc() and __kfence_free()"), kfence reports failures in random
places at boot on big endian machines.
The problem is that the new KFENCE_CANARY_PATTERN_U64 encodes the address
of each byte in its value, so it needs to be byte swapped on big endian
machines.
The compiler is smart enough to do the le64_to_cpu() at compile time, so
there is no runtime overhead.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230505035127.195387-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Fixes: 1ba3cbf3ec3b ("mm: kfence: improve the performance of __kfence_alloc() and __kfence_free()")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Peng Zhang <zhangpeng.00@bytedance.com>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- Nick Piggin's "shoot lazy tlbs" series, to improve the peformance of
switching from a user process to a kernel thread.
- More folio conversions from Kefeng Wang, Zhang Peng and Pankaj
Raghav.
- zsmalloc performance improvements from Sergey Senozhatsky.
- Yue Zhao has found and fixed some data race issues around the
alteration of memcg userspace tunables.
- VFS rationalizations from Christoph Hellwig:
- removal of most of the callers of write_one_page()
- make __filemap_get_folio()'s return value more useful
- Luis Chamberlain has changed tmpfs so it no longer requires swap
backing. Use `mount -o noswap'.
- Qi Zheng has made the slab shrinkers operate locklessly, providing
some scalability benefits.
- Keith Busch has improved dmapool's performance, making part of its
operations O(1) rather than O(n).
- Peter Xu adds the UFFD_FEATURE_WP_UNPOPULATED feature to userfaultd,
permitting userspace to wr-protect anon memory unpopulated ptes.
- Kirill Shutemov has changed MAX_ORDER's meaning to be inclusive
rather than exclusive, and has fixed a bunch of errors which were
caused by its unintuitive meaning.
- Axel Rasmussen give userfaultfd the UFFDIO_CONTINUE_MODE_WP feature,
which causes minor faults to install a write-protected pte.
- Vlastimil Babka has done some maintenance work on vma_merge():
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