kernel/linux.git/mm/kfence, branch v6.6.133

mm/kfence: fix KASAN hardware tag faults during late enablement

2026-03-25T10:05:57+00:00

[ Upstream commit d155aab90fffa00f93cea1f107aef0a3d548b2ff ] When KASAN hardware tags are enabled, re-enabling KFENCE late (via /sys/module/kfence/parameters/sample_interval) causes KASAN faults. This happens because the KFENCE pool and metadata are allocated via the page allocator, which tags the memory, while KFENCE continues to access it using untagged pointers during initialization. Use __GFP_SKIP_KASAN for late KFENCE pool and metadata allocations to ensure the memory remains untagged, consistent with early allocations from memblock. To support this, add __GFP_SKIP_KASAN to the allowlist in __alloc_contig_verify_gfp_mask(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260220144940.2779209-1-glider@google.com Fixes: 0ce20dd84089 ("mm: add Kernel Electric-Fence infrastructure") Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko Suggested-by: Ernesto Martinez Garcia Cc: Andrey Konovalov Cc: Andrey Ryabinin Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: Greg KH Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Marco Elver Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton [ dropped page_alloc.c hunk adding __GFP_SKIP_KASAN ] Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/kfence: disable KFENCE upon KASAN HW tags enablement

2026-03-25T10:05:50+00:00

commit 09833d99db36d74456a4d13eb29c32d56ff8f2b6 upstream. KFENCE does not currently support KASAN hardware tags. As a result, the two features are incompatible when enabled simultaneously. Given that MTE provides deterministic protection and KFENCE is a sampling-based debugging tool, prioritize the stronger hardware protections. Disable KFENCE initialization and free the pre-allocated pool if KASAN hardware tags are detected to ensure the system maintains the security guarantees provided by MTE. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260213095410.1862978-1-glider@google.com Fixes: 0ce20dd84089 ("mm: add Kernel Electric-Fence infrastructure") Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko Suggested-by: Marco Elver Reviewed-by: Marco Elver Cc: Andrey Konovalov Cc: Andrey Ryabinin Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: Ernesto Martinez Garcia Cc: Greg KH Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/kfence: randomize the freelist on initialization

2026-02-06T15:48:26+00:00

commit 870ff19251bf3910dda7a7245da826924045fedd upstream. 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 Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: Marco Elver Cc: Ernesto Martnez Garca Cc: Greg KH Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Pimyn Girgis Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kfence: skip __GFP_THISNODE allocations on NUMA systems

2025-02-17T08:40:32+00:00

commit e64f81946adf68cd75e2207dd9a51668348a4af8 upstream. 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 Reported-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Alexander Potapenko Cc: Chistoph Lameter Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'loongarch-6.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chenhuacai/linux-loongson

2023-09-08T19:16:52+00:00

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 ...

kfence: Defer the assignment of the local variable addr

2023-09-06T14:53:55+00:00

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 Signed-off-by: Enze Li Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-08-28-22-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2023-08-29T21:53:51+00:00

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 ...

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-08-28-18-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2023-08-29T21:25:26+00:00

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 ...

lib/vsprintf: declare no_hash_pointers in sprintf.h

2023-08-21T20:46:24+00:00

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 Acked-by: Marco Elver Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek Cc: Alexander Potapenko Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: Rasmus Villemoes Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: kfence: allocate kfence_metadata at runtime

2023-08-18T17:12:39+00:00

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 Reviewed-by: Marco Elver Cc: Alexander Potapenko Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: Muchun Song Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton