From: "Thomas Weißschuh" <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>,
Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>,
"Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" <chleroy@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Thomas Weißschuh" <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH] vdso/datastore: Zero out newly allocated datastore pages
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:14:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260409-vdso-datastore-zero-v1-1-e7b64a7c54b5@linutronix.de> (raw)
The data pages need to be zeroed initially, as garbage data can break
the vDSO userspace logic.
Fixes: 05988dba1179 ("vdso/datastore: Allocate data pages dynamically")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/aQjJNmwniQwwjeBR@finisterre.sirena.org.uk/
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
---
I messed up and dropped __GFP_ZERO again when switching from folio_alloc() to
alloc_pages() in v6 of "sparc64: vdso: Switch to the generic vDSO library"
Previously the missing __GFP_ZERO triggered boot-failures in -next, but
apparently with alloc_pages() we got "lucky" so far.
This could also be merged into the originally broken commit.
---
lib/vdso/datastore.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lib/vdso/datastore.c b/lib/vdso/datastore.c
index cf5d784a4a5a..55f1654624e0 100644
--- a/lib/vdso/datastore.c
+++ b/lib/vdso/datastore.c
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ void __init vdso_setup_data_pages(void)
* Do not use folios. In time namespaces the pages are mapped in a different order
* to userspace, which is not handled by the folio optimizations in finish_fault().
*/
- pages = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL, order);
+ pages = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, order);
if (!pages)
panic("Unable to allocate VDSO storage pages");
---
base-commit: 7138a8698a39e81eb153e05500823fff76d5b3bd
change-id: 20260409-vdso-datastore-zero-87f0d2d482d6
Best regards,
--
Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
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