linux-kernel - Re: devm_memremap_pages() triggers a kasan_add_zero

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Date:   Wed, 21 Aug 2019 21:52:01 -0400
From:   Qian Cai <cai@....pw>
To:     Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
Cc:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>,
        kasan-dev@...glegroups.com, Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: devm_memremap_pages() triggers a kasan_add_zero_shadow() warning



> On Aug 21, 2019, at 9:31 PM, Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com> wrote:
> 
> On 08/21/19 at 05:12pm, Qian Cai wrote:
>>>> Does disabling CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE help? Maybe that workaround has
>>>> regressed. Effectively we need to find what is causing the kernel to
>>>> sometimes be placed in the middle of a custom reserved memmap= range.
>>> 
>>> Yes, disabling KASLR works good so far. Assuming the workaround, i.e.,
>>> f28442497b5c
>>> (“x86/boot: Fix KASLR and memmap= collision”) is correct.
>>> 
>>> The only other commit that might regress it from my research so far is,
>>> 
>>> d52e7d5a952c ("x86/KASLR: Parse all 'memmap=' boot option entries”)
>>> 
>> 
>> It turns out that the origin commit f28442497b5c (“x86/boot: Fix KASLR and
>> memmap= collision”) has a bug that is unable to handle "memmap=" in
>> CONFIG_CMDLINE instead of a parameter in bootloader because when it (as well as
>> the commit d52e7d5a952c) calls get_cmd_line_ptr() in order to run
>> mem_avoid_memmap(), "boot_params" has no knowledge of CONFIG_CMDLINE. Only later
>> in setup_arch(), the kernel will deal with parameters over there.
> 
> Yes, we didn't consider CONFIG_CMDLINE during boot compressing stage. It
> should be a generic issue since other parameters from CONFIG_CMDLINE could
> be ignored too, not only KASLR handling. Would you like to cast a patch
> to fix it? Or I can fix it later, maybe next week.

I think you have more experience than me in this area, so if you have time to fix it, that
would be nice.