linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: kmsan: add tests for high-order page freeing

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Message-ID: <20260113091151.4035013-1-glider@google.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2026 10:11:50 +0100
From: Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
To: glider@...gle.com
Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, ryan.roberts@....com, linux-mm@...ck.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, elver@...gle.com, dvyukov@...gle.com, 
	kasan-dev@...glegroups.com
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: kmsan: add tests for high-order page freeing

Add regression tests to verify that KMSAN correctly poisons the full memory
range when freeing pages.

Specifically, verify that accessing the tail pages of a high-order
non-compound allocation triggers a use-after-free report. This ensures
that the fix "mm: kmsan: Fix poisoning of high-order non-compound pages"
is working as expected.

Also add a test for standard order-0 pages for completeness.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260104134348.3544298-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com/
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@....com>

---
 v2: factored out the common part of the two tests
---
 mm/kmsan/kmsan_test.c | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/kmsan/kmsan_test.c b/mm/kmsan/kmsan_test.c
index 902ec48b1e3e6..ba44bf2072bbe 100644
--- a/mm/kmsan/kmsan_test.c
+++ b/mm/kmsan/kmsan_test.c
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ static void test_init_vmalloc(struct kunit *test)
 	KUNIT_EXPECT_TRUE(test, report_matches(&expect));
 }
 
-/* Test case: ensure that use-after-free reporting works. */
+/* Test case: ensure that use-after-free reporting works for kmalloc. */
 static void test_uaf(struct kunit *test)
 {
 	EXPECTATION_USE_AFTER_FREE(expect);
@@ -378,6 +378,51 @@ static void test_uaf(struct kunit *test)
 	KUNIT_EXPECT_TRUE(test, report_matches(&expect));
 }
 
+static volatile char *test_uaf_pages_helper(int order, int offset)
+{
+	struct page *page;
+	volatile char *var;
+
+	/* Memory is initialized up until __free_pages() thanks to __GFP_ZERO. */
+	page = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, order);
+	var = page_address(page) + offset;
+	__free_pages(page, order);
+
+	return var;
+}
+
+/* Test case: ensure that use-after-free reporting works for a freed page. */
+static void test_uaf_pages(struct kunit *test)
+{
+	EXPECTATION_USE_AFTER_FREE(expect);
+	volatile char value;
+
+	kunit_info(test, "use-after-free on a freed page (UMR report)\n");
+	/* Allocate a single page, free it, then try to access it. */
+	value = *test_uaf_pages_helper(0, 3);
+	USE(value);
+
+	KUNIT_EXPECT_TRUE(test, report_matches(&expect));
+}
+
+/* Test case: ensure that UAF reporting works for high order pages. */
+static void test_uaf_high_order_pages(struct kunit *test)
+{
+	EXPECTATION_USE_AFTER_FREE(expect);
+	volatile char value;
+
+	kunit_info(test,
+		   "use-after-free on a freed high-order page (UMR report)\n");
+	/*
+	 * Create a high-order non-compound page, free it, then try to access
+	 * its tail page.
+	 */
+	value = *test_uaf_pages_helper(1, PAGE_SIZE + 3);
+	USE(value);
+
+	KUNIT_EXPECT_TRUE(test, report_matches(&expect));
+}
+
 /*
  * Test case: ensure that uninitialized values are propagated through per-CPU
  * memory.
@@ -683,6 +728,8 @@ static struct kunit_case kmsan_test_cases[] = {
 	KUNIT_CASE(test_init_kmsan_vmap_vunmap),
 	KUNIT_CASE(test_init_vmalloc),
 	KUNIT_CASE(test_uaf),
+	KUNIT_CASE(test_uaf_pages),
+	KUNIT_CASE(test_uaf_high_order_pages),
 	KUNIT_CASE(test_percpu_propagate),
 	KUNIT_CASE(test_printk),
 	KUNIT_CASE(test_init_memcpy),
-- 
2.52.0.457.g6b5491de43-goog