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| author | Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@arm.com> | 2026-04-29 13:27:03 +0300 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2026-05-29 07:05:01 +0300 |
| commit | 6ae51adb084a9d87a8b9501d2231e20271dece87 (patch) | |
| tree | 1b275a8febfdbd8820c3862e935401c795848caf /include/linux | |
| parent | b56ca146a2b2750172f91f6db960a37a1a546efd (diff) | |
| download | linux-6ae51adb084a9d87a8b9501d2231e20271dece87.tar.xz | |
kasan: skip HW tagging for all kernel thread stacks
HW-tag KASAN never checks kernel stacks because stack pointers carry the
match-all tag, so setting/poisoning tags is pure overhead.
- Add __GFP_SKIP_KASAN to THREADINFO_GFP so every stack allocator that
uses it skips tagging (fork path plus arch users)
- Add __GFP_SKIP_KASAN to GFP_VMAP_STACK for the fork-specific vmap
stacks.
- When reusing cached vmap stacks, skip kasan_unpoison_range() if HW tags
are enabled.
Software KASAN is unchanged; this only affects tag-based KASAN.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260429102704.680174-3-dev.jain@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/thread_info.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/thread_info.h b/include/linux/thread_info.h index 051e42902690..307b8390fc67 100644 --- a/include/linux/thread_info.h +++ b/include/linux/thread_info.h @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ static inline long set_restart_fn(struct restart_block *restart, #define THREAD_ALIGN THREAD_SIZE #endif -#define THREADINFO_GFP (GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT | __GFP_ZERO) +#define THREADINFO_GFP (GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT | __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_SKIP_KASAN) /* * flag set/clear/test wrappers |