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authorRan Xiaokai <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn>2025-11-22 18:29:29 +0000
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2025-11-27 14:24:43 -0800
commit40cd0e8dd283b11aff9628fe7fd810ea7cc53e32 (patch)
treee398283cb06c5a46cfa2aee9217d622c7e01f354
parentfb5c3644278c169c0d03b904b2bdedcaea897df7 (diff)
KHO: fix boot failure due to kmemleak access to non-PRESENT pages
When booting with debug_pagealloc=on while having: CONFIG_KEXEC_HANDOVER_ENABLE_DEFAULT=y CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=n the system fails to boot due to page faults during kmemleak scanning. This occurs because: With debug_pagealloc is enabled, __free_pages() invokes debug_pagealloc_unmap_pages(), clearing the _PAGE_PRESENT bit for freed pages in the kernel page table. KHO scratch areas are allocated from memblock and noted by kmemleak. But these areas don't remain reserved but released later to the page allocator using init_cma_reserved_pageblock(). This causes subsequent kmemleak scans access non-PRESENT pages, leading to fatal page faults. Mark scratch areas with kmemleak_ignore_phys() after they are allocated from memblock to exclude them from kmemleak scanning before they are released to buddy allocator to fix this. [ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn: add comment] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251127122700.103927-1-ranxiaokai627@163.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251122182929.92634-1-ranxiaokai627@163.com Signed-off-by: Ran Xiaokai <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Changyuan Lyu <changyuanl@google.com> Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c b/kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c
index ecc2058df1b6..f9b530606693 100644
--- a/kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c
+++ b/kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
#include <linux/cleanup.h>
#include <linux/cma.h>
+#include <linux/kmemleak.h>
#include <linux/count_zeros.h>
#include <linux/kexec.h>
#include <linux/kexec_handover.h>
@@ -1369,6 +1370,15 @@ static __init int kho_init(void)
unsigned long count = kho_scratch[i].size >> PAGE_SHIFT;
unsigned long pfn;
+ /*
+ * When debug_pagealloc is enabled, __free_pages() clears the
+ * corresponding PRESENT bit in the kernel page table.
+ * Subsequent kmemleak scans of these pages cause the
+ * non-PRESENT page faults.
+ * Mark scratch areas with kmemleak_ignore_phys() to exclude
+ * them from kmemleak scanning.
+ */
+ kmemleak_ignore_phys(kho_scratch[i].addr);
for (pfn = base_pfn; pfn < base_pfn + count;
pfn += pageblock_nr_pages)
init_cma_reserved_pageblock(pfn_to_page(pfn));