linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] vmalloc: add vm_flags argument to internal __vmalloc

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Date:   Wed, 21 Feb 2018 04:24:45 -0800
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>
Cc:     Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>,
        kasan-dev@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] vmalloc: add vm_flags argument to internal
 __vmalloc_node()

On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 01:55:22PM +0300, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> This allows to set VM_USERMAP in vmalloc_user() and vmalloc_32_user()
> directly at allocation and avoid find_vm_area() call.

While reviewing this patch, I came across this infelicity ...

have I understood correctly?

diff --git a/mm/kasan/kasan.c b/mm/kasan/kasan.c
index e13d911251e7..9060f80b4a41 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/kasan.c
+++ b/mm/kasan/kasan.c
@@ -631,11 +631,10 @@ int kasan_module_alloc(void *addr, size_t size)
 	ret = __vmalloc_node_range(shadow_size, 1, shadow_start,
 			shadow_start + shadow_size,
 			GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO,
-			PAGE_KERNEL, VM_NO_GUARD, NUMA_NO_NODE,
+			PAGE_KERNEL, VM_NO_GUARD | VM_KASAN, NUMA_NO_NODE,
 			__builtin_return_address(0));
 
 	if (ret) {
-		find_vm_area(addr)->flags |= VM_KASAN;
 		kmemleak_ignore(ret);
 		return 0;
 	}