kernel/linux.git/mm/kmsan, branch v7.0.10

Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00

This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using git grep -l '\

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00

This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union object instances: Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...) Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...) Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...) (where TYPE may also be *VAR) The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning "TYPE *". Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2026-02-12T20:13:01+00:00

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "ocfs2: give ocfs2 the ability to reclaim suballocator free bg" saves disk space by teaching ocfs2 to reclaim suballocator block group space (Heming Zhao) - "Add ARRAY_END(), and use it to fix off-by-one bugs" adds the ARRAY_END() macro and uses it in various places (Alejandro Colomar) - "vmcoreinfo: support VMCOREINFO_BYTES larger than PAGE_SIZE" makes the vmcore code future-safe, if VMCOREINFO_BYTES ever exceeds the page size (Pnina Feder) - "kallsyms: Prevent invalid access when showing module buildid" cleans up kallsyms code related to module buildid and fixes an invalid access crash when printing backtraces (Petr Mladek) - "Address page fault in ima_restore_measurement_list()" fixes a kexec-related crash that can occur when booting the second-stage kernel on x86 (Harshit Mogalapalli) - "kho: ABI headers and Documentation updates" updates the kexec handover ABI documentation (Mike Rapoport) - "Align atomic storage" adds the __aligned attribute to atomic_t and atomic64_t definitions to get natural alignment of both types on csky, m68k, microblaze, nios2, openrisc and sh (Finn Thain) - "kho: clean up page initialization logic" simplifies the page initialization logic in kho_restore_page() (Pratyush Yadav) - "Unload linux/kernel.h" moves several things out of kernel.h and into more appropriate places (Yury Norov) - "don't abuse task_struct.group_leader" removes the usage of ->group_leader when it is "obviously unnecessary" (Oleg Nesterov) - "list private v2 & luo flb" adds some infrastructure improvements to the live update orchestrator (Pasha Tatashin) * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (107 commits) watchdog/hardlockup: simplify perf event probe and remove per-cpu dependency procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading real_parent in do_task_stat() watchdog/softlockup: fix sample ring index wrap in need_counting_irqs() kcsan, compiler_types: avoid duplicate type issues in BPF Type Format kho: fix doc for kho_restore_pages() tests/liveupdate: add in-kernel liveupdate test liveupdate: luo_flb: introduce File-Lifecycle-Bound global state liveupdate: luo_file: Use private list list: add kunit test for private list primitives list: add primitives for private list manipulations delayacct: fix uapi timespec64 definition panic: add panic_force_cpu= parameter to redirect panic to a specific CPU netclassid: use thread_group_leader(p) in update_classid_task() RDMA/umem: don't abuse current->group_leader drm/pan*: don't abuse current->group_leader drm/amd: kill the outdated "Only the pthreads threading model is supported" checks drm/amdgpu: don't abuse current->group_leader android/binder: use same_thread_group(proc->tsk, current) in binder_mmap() android/binder: don't abuse current->group_leader kho: skip memoryless NUMA nodes when reserving scratch areas ...

mm: kmsan: add test_uninit_page

2026-01-27T04:02:32+00:00

Test that pages allocated with alloc_page() are uninitialized by default. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260113091151.4035013-2-glider@google.com Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov Cc: Marco Elver Cc: Ryan Roberts Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: kmsan: add tests for high-order page freeing

2026-01-27T04:02:32+00:00

Add regression tests to verify that KMSAN correctly poisons the full memory range when freeing pages. Specifically, verify that accessing the tail pages of a high-order non-compound allocation triggers a use-after-free report. This ensures that the fix "mm: kmsan: Fix poisoning of high-order non-compound pages" is working as expected. Also add a test for standard order-0 pages for completeness. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260104134348.3544298-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260113091151.4035013-1-glider@google.com Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: Marco Elver Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: fix benign off-by-one bugs

2026-01-21T03:44:19+00:00

We were wasting a byte due to an off-by-one bug. s[c]nprintf() doesn't write more than $2 bytes including the null byte, so trying to pass 'size-1' there is wasting one byte. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/9c38dd009c17b0219889c7089d9bdde5aaf28a8e.1765449750.git.alx@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar Acked-by: Marco Elver Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Christopher Bazley Cc: Alexander Potapenko Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Rasmus Villemoes Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Al Viro Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: kmsan: fix poisoning of high-order non-compound pages

2026-01-15T06:16:25+00:00

kmsan_free_page() is called by the page allocator's free_pages_prepare() during page freeing. Its job is to poison all the memory covered by the page. It can be called with an order-0 page, a compound high-order page or a non-compound high-order page. But page_size() only works for order-0 and compound pages. For a non-compound high-order page it will incorrectly return PAGE_SIZE. The implication is that the tail pages of a high-order non-compound page do not get poisoned at free, so any invalid access while they are free could go unnoticed. It looks like the pages will be poisoned again at allocation time, so that would bookend the window. Fix this by using the order parameter to calculate the size. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260104134348.3544298-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com Fixes: b073d7f8aee4 ("mm: kmsan: maintain KMSAN metadata for page operations") Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko Tested-by: Alexander Potapenko Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: Marco Elver Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

kmsan: remove hard-coded GFP_KERNEL flags

2025-11-17T01:27:54+00:00

kmsan_vmap_pages_range_noflush() allocates its temp s_pages/o_pages arrays with GFP_KERNEL, which may sleep. This is inconsistent with vmalloc() as it will support non-blocking requests later. Plumb gfp_mask through the kmsan_vmap_pages_range_noflush(), so it can use it internally for its demand. Please note, the subsequent __vmap_pages_range_noflush() still uses GFP_KERNEL and can sleep. If a caller runs under reclaim constraints, sleeping is forbidden, it must establish the appropriate memalloc scope API. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251007122035.56347-8-urezki@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko Cc: Marco Elver Cc: Andrey Ryabinin Cc: Baoquan He Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: fix some typos in mm module

2025-11-17T01:27:52+00:00

Below are some typos in the code comments: intevals ==> intervals addesses ==> addresses unavaliable ==> unavailable facor ==> factor droping ==> dropping exlusive ==> exclusive decription ==> description confict ==> conflict desriptions ==> descriptions otherwize ==> otherwise vlaue ==> value cheching ==> checking exisitng ==> existing modifed ==> modified differenciate ==> differentiate refernece ==> reference permissons ==> permissions indepdenent ==> independent spliting ==> splitting Just fix it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250929002608.1633825-1-jianyungao89@gmail.com Signed-off-by: jianyun.gao Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park Reviewed-by: Wei Yang Reviewed-by: Dev Jain Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett Acked-by: Chris Li Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/kmsan: fix kmsan kmalloc hook when no stack depots are allocated yet

2025-11-10T05:19:42+00:00

If no stack depot is allocated yet, due to masking out __GFP_RECLAIM flags kmsan called from kmalloc cannot allocate stack depot. kmsan fails to record origin and report issues. This may result in KMSAN failing to report issues. Reusing flags from kmalloc without modifying them should be safe for kmsan. For example, such chain of calls is possible: test_uninit_kmalloc -> kmalloc -> __kmalloc_cache_noprof -> slab_alloc_node -> slab_post_alloc_hook -> kmsan_slab_alloc -> kmsan_internal_poison_memory. Only when it is called in a context without flags present should __GFP_RECLAIM flags be masked. With this change all kmsan tests start working reliably. Eric reported: : Yes, KMSAN seems to be at least partially broken currently. Besides the : fact that the kmsan KUnit test is currently failing (which I reported at : https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250911175145.GA1376@sol), I've confirmed that : the poly1305 KUnit test causes a KMSAN warning with Aleksei's patch : applied but does not cause a warning without it. The warning did get : reached via syzbot somehow : (https://lore.kernel.org/r/751b3d80293a6f599bb07770afcef24f623c7da0.1761026343.git.xiaopei01@kylinos.cn/), : so KMSAN must still work in some cases. But it didn't work for me. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250930115600.709776-2-aleksei.nikiforov@linux.ibm.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251022030213.GA35717@sol Fixes: 97769a53f117 ("mm, bpf: Introduce try_alloc_pages() for opportunistic page allocation") Signed-off-by: Aleksei Nikiforov Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko Tested-by: Eric Biggers Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov Cc: Ilya Leoshkevich Cc: Marco Elver Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton