Re: [PATCH 5.19.y] Revert "mm: kfence: apply kmemleak_ignore_phys on early allocated pool"

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Aug 17 2022 - 13:24:32 EST


On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 06:42:46PM +0200, Marco Elver wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Aug 2022 at 18:37, Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > This reverts commit 07313a2b29ed1079eaa7722624544b97b3ead84b.
> >
> > Commit 0c24e061196c21d5 ("mm: kmemleak: add rbtree and store physical
> > address for objects allocated with PA") is not yet in 5.19 (but appears
> > in 6.0). Without 0c24e061196c21d5, kmemleak still stores phys objects
> > and non-phys objects in the same tree, and ignoring (instead of freeing)
> > will cause insertions into the kmemleak object tree by the slab
> > post-alloc hook to conflict with the pool object (see comment).
> >
> > Reports such as the following would appear on boot, and effectively
> > disable kmemleak:
> >
> > | kmemleak: Cannot insert 0xffffff806e24f000 into the object search tree (overlaps existing)
> > | CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.19.0-v8-0815+ #5
> > | Hardware name: Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 Rev 1.0 (DT)
> > | Call trace:
> > | dump_backtrace.part.0+0x1dc/0x1ec
> > | show_stack+0x24/0x80
> > | dump_stack_lvl+0x8c/0xb8
> > | dump_stack+0x1c/0x38
> > | create_object.isra.0+0x490/0x4b0
> > | kmemleak_alloc+0x3c/0x50
> > | kmem_cache_alloc+0x2f8/0x450
> > | __proc_create+0x18c/0x400
> > | proc_create_reg+0x54/0xd0
> > | proc_create_seq_private+0x94/0x120
> > | init_mm_internals+0x1d8/0x248
> > | kernel_init_freeable+0x188/0x388
> > | kernel_init+0x30/0x150
> > | ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
> > | kmemleak: Kernel memory leak detector disabled
> > | kmemleak: Object 0xffffff806e24d000 (size 2097152):
> > | kmemleak: comm "swapper", pid 0, jiffies 4294892296
> > | kmemleak: min_count = -1
> > | kmemleak: count = 0
> > | kmemleak: flags = 0x5
> > | kmemleak: checksum = 0
> > | kmemleak: backtrace:
> > | kmemleak_alloc_phys+0x94/0xb0
> > | memblock_alloc_range_nid+0x1c0/0x20c
> > | memblock_alloc_internal+0x88/0x100
> > | memblock_alloc_try_nid+0x148/0x1ac
> > | kfence_alloc_pool+0x44/0x6c
> > | mm_init+0x28/0x98
> > | start_kernel+0x178/0x3e8
> > | __primary_switched+0xc4/0xcc
> >
> > Reported-by: Max Schulze <max.schulze@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The discussion is:
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/b33b33bc-2d06-1bcd-2df7-43678962b728@xxxxxxxxx/
>
> > ---
> > mm/kfence/core.c | 18 +++++++++---------
> > 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/kfence/core.c b/mm/kfence/core.c
> > index 6aff49f6b79e..4b5e5a3d3a63 100644
> > --- a/mm/kfence/core.c
> > +++ b/mm/kfence/core.c
> > @@ -603,6 +603,14 @@ static unsigned long kfence_init_pool(void)
> > addr += 2 * PAGE_SIZE;
> > }
> >
> > + /*
> > + * The pool is live and will never be deallocated from this point on.
> > + * Remove the pool object from the kmemleak object tree, as it would
> > + * otherwise overlap with allocations returned by kfence_alloc(), which
> > + * are registered with kmemleak through the slab post-alloc hook.
> > + */
> > + kmemleak_free(__kfence_pool);
> > +
> > return 0;
> > }
> >
> > @@ -615,16 +623,8 @@ static bool __init kfence_init_pool_early(void)
> >
> > addr = kfence_init_pool();
> >
> > - if (!addr) {
> > - /*
> > - * The pool is live and will never be deallocated from this point on.
> > - * Ignore the pool object from the kmemleak phys object tree, as it would
> > - * otherwise overlap with allocations returned by kfence_alloc(), which
> > - * are registered with kmemleak through the slab post-alloc hook.
> > - */
> > - kmemleak_ignore_phys(__pa(__kfence_pool));
> > + if (!addr)
> > return true;
> > - }
> >
> > /*
> > * Only release unprotected pages, and do not try to go back and change
> > --
> > 2.37.1.595.g718a3a8f04-goog
> >

Now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h