linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: kmemleak: take a full lowmem check in kmemleak_*

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Date:   Wed, 13 Apr 2022 12:28:26 -0700
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Patrick Wang <patrick.wang.shcn@...il.com>
Cc:     catalin.marinas@....com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: kmemleak: take a full lowmem check in
 kmemleak_*_phys()

On Wed, 13 Apr 2022 20:29:25 +0800 Patrick Wang <patrick.wang.shcn@...il.com> wrote:

> The kmemleak_*_phys() apis do not check the address for lowmem's min
> boundary, while the caller may pass an address below lowmem, which
> will trigger an oops:

Do you believe this fix should be backported into -stable kernels?