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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-09-14 13:23:22 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-09-14 13:23:22 -0700
commit77e02cf57b6cff9919949defb7fd9b8ac16399a2 (patch)
tree96d0a1d317e28e7b22165ca419c99f7313e64ea3 /kernel
parent6a4746ba06191e23d30230738e94334b26590a8a (diff)
memblock: introduce saner 'memblock_free_ptr()' interface
The boot-time allocation interface for memblock is a mess, with 'memblock_alloc()' returning a virtual pointer, but then you are supposed to free it with 'memblock_free()' that takes a _physical_ address. Not only is that all kinds of strange and illogical, but it actually causes bugs, when people then use it like a normal allocation function, and it fails spectacularly on a NULL pointer: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210912140820.GD25450@xsang-OptiPlex-9020/ or just random memory corruption if the debug checks don't catch it: https://lore.kernel.org/all/61ab2d0c-3313-aaab-514c-e15b7aa054a0@suse.cz/ I really don't want to apply patches that treat the symptoms, when the fundamental cause is this horribly confusing interface. I started out looking at just automating a sane replacement sequence, but because of this mix or virtual and physical addresses, and because people have used the "__pa()" macro that can take either a regular kernel pointer, or just the raw "unsigned long" address, it's all quite messy. So this just introduces a new saner interface for freeing a virtual address that was allocated using 'memblock_alloc()', and that was kept as a regular kernel pointer. And then it converts a couple of users that are obvious and easy to test, including the 'xbc_nodes' case in lib/bootconfig.c that caused problems. Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com> Fixes: 40caa127f3c7 ("init: bootconfig: Remove all bootconfig data when the init memory is removed") Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/printk/printk.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
index 825277e1e742..a8d0a58deebc 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -1166,9 +1166,9 @@ void __init setup_log_buf(int early)
return;
err_free_descs:
- memblock_free(__pa(new_descs), new_descs_size);
+ memblock_free_ptr(new_descs, new_descs_size);
err_free_log_buf:
- memblock_free(__pa(new_log_buf), new_log_buf_len);
+ memblock_free_ptr(new_log_buf, new_log_buf_len);
}
static bool __read_mostly ignore_loglevel;