On 3/30/21 6:37 PM, Andrey Konovalov wrote: > My commit "integrate page_alloc init with HW_TAGS" changed the order of > kernel_unpoison_pages() and kernel_init_free_pages() calls. This leads > to complaints from the page unpoisoning code, as the poison pattern gets > overwritten for __GFP_ZERO allocations. > > Fix by restoring the initial order. Also add a warning comment. > > Reported-by: Vlastimil Babka <vba...@suse.cz> > Reported-by: Sergei Trofimovich <sly...@gentoo.org> > Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyk...@google.com>
Tested that the bug indeed occurs in -next and is fixed by this. Thanks. > --- > mm/page_alloc.c | 8 +++++++- > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c > index 033bd92e8398..d2c020563c0b 100644 > --- a/mm/page_alloc.c > +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c > @@ -2328,6 +2328,13 @@ inline void post_alloc_hook(struct page *page, > unsigned int order, > arch_alloc_page(page, order); > debug_pagealloc_map_pages(page, 1 << order); > > + /* > + * Page unpoisoning must happen before memory initialization. > + * Otherwise, the poison pattern will be overwritten for __GFP_ZERO > + * allocations and the page unpoisoning code will complain. > + */ > + kernel_unpoison_pages(page, 1 << order); > + > /* > * As memory initialization might be integrated into KASAN, > * kasan_alloc_pages and kernel_init_free_pages must be > @@ -2338,7 +2345,6 @@ inline void post_alloc_hook(struct page *page, unsigned > int order, > if (init && !kasan_has_integrated_init()) > kernel_init_free_pages(page, 1 << order); > > - kernel_unpoison_pages(page, 1 << order); > set_page_owner(page, order, gfp_flags); > } > >
