linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: kmsan: Panic on failure to allocate early boot metadata

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Date:   Sun, 15 Oct 2023 21:35:26 +0100
From:   Pedro Falcato <pedro.falcato@...il.com>
To:     kasan-dev@...glegroups.com, Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
Cc:     Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: kmsan: Panic on failure to allocate early boot metadata

On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 9:26 PM Pedro Falcato <pedro.falcato@...il.com> wrote:
>
> Given large enough allocations and a machine with low enough memory (i.e
> a default QEMU VM), it's entirely possible that
> kmsan_init_alloc_meta_for_range's shadow+origin allocation fails.

Ugh, forgot to run checkpatch.pl until it was too late :/

> Instead of eating a NULL deref kernel oops, check explicitly for memblock_alloc()

If there's no need for a v2, please wrap the above line and...

> failure and panic with a nice error message.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pedro Falcato <pedro.falcato@...il.com>
> ---
>  mm/kmsan/shadow.c | 10 ++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/kmsan/shadow.c b/mm/kmsan/shadow.c
> index 87318f9170f..3dae3d9c0b3 100644
> --- a/mm/kmsan/shadow.c
> +++ b/mm/kmsan/shadow.c
> @@ -285,12 +285,18 @@ void __init kmsan_init_alloc_meta_for_range(void *start, void *end)
>         size = PAGE_ALIGN((u64)end - (u64)start);
>         shadow = memblock_alloc(size, PAGE_SIZE);
>         origin = memblock_alloc(size, PAGE_SIZE);
> +
> +       if (!shadow || !origin)
> +               panic("%s: Failed to allocate metadata memory for early boot range "
> +                     "of size %llu",

unwrap this string like this:
    "%s: Failed to allocate metadata memory for early boot range of size %llu",

Silly mistake...

-- 
Pedro