linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH mm] mm, kasan: fix for "integrate page_alloc init with HW

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Date:   Tue, 30 Mar 2021 18:37:39 +0200
From:   Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
To:     Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@...too.org>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...il.com>,
        kasan-dev <kasan-dev@...glegroups.com>,
        Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH mm] mm, kasan: fix for "integrate page_alloc init with HW_TAGS"

On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 5:54 PM Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz> wrote:
>
> On 3/30/21 5:31 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 __GFP_ZERO allocations being incorrectly poisoned when page poisoning
> > is enabled.
>
> Correction: This leads to check_poison_mem() complain about memory corruption
> because the poison pattern has already been overwritten by zeroes.

Ah, indeed. Will send v2. Thanks!