Re: [PATCH] KVM: arm64: Prevent kmemleak from accessing pKVM memory

From: Marc Zyngier
Date: Fri Jun 17 2022 - 04:21:44 EST


On Thu, 16 Jun 2022 16:11:34 +0000, Quentin Perret wrote:
> Commit a7259df76702 ("memblock: make memblock_find_in_range method
> private") changed the API using which memory is reserved for the pKVM
> hypervisor. However, it seems that memblock_phys_alloc() differs
> from the original API in terms of kmemleak semantics -- the old one
> excluded the reserved regions from kmemleak scans when the new one
> doesn't seem to. Unfortunately, when protected KVM is enabled, all
> kernel accesses to pKVM-private memory result in a fatal exception,
> which can now happen because of kmemleak scans:
>
> [...]

Applied to fixes, thanks!

[1/1] KVM: arm64: Prevent kmemleak from accessing pKVM memory
commit: 9e5afa8a537f742bccc2cd91bc0bef4b6483ee98

Cheers,

M.
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