linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] KVM: arm64: Use kmemleak_free_part_phys() to unregister hyp_mem

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Message-ID: <YxnuFzxDpFwEYLxF@arm.com>
Date:   Thu, 8 Sep 2022 14:28:55 +0100
From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:     Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@...wei.com>
Cc:     kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, maz@...nel.org, james.morse@....com,
        alexandru.elisei@....com, suzuki.poulose@....com,
        oliver.upton@...ux.dev, will@...nel.org, wanghaibin.wang@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: arm64: Use kmemleak_free_part_phys() to unregister
 hyp_mem_base

On Thu, Sep 08, 2022 at 09:06:59PM +0800, Zenghui Yu wrote:
> With commit 0c24e061196c ("mm: kmemleak: add rbtree and store physical
> address for objects allocated with PA"), kmemleak started to put the
> objects allocated with physical address onto object_phys_tree_root tree.
> The kmemleak_free_part() therefore no longer worked as expected on
> physically allocated objects (hyp_mem_base in this case) as it attempted to
> search and remove things in object_tree_root tree.
> 
> Fix it by using kmemleak_free_part_phys() to unregister hyp_mem_base. This
> fixes an immediate crash when booting a KVM host in protected mode with
> kmemleak enabled.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@...wei.com>

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>