From: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Marco Elver <elver@google.com>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>, Pavel Machek <pavel@kernel.org>,
kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/5] hibernation: make safe_copy_page more robust and remove debug_pagealloc support
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:07:02 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260917-hibernation-v1-0-7f7dfae3dbe0@kernel.org> (raw)
When hibernation creates a memory image, it uses set_direct_map() APIs to
temporarily map pages that are marked as not present in the kernel page
tables.
Initially, this was intended to support debug_pagealloc along with
hibernation on x86.
With the increasing desire to use set_direct_map APIs for hardening
features and with their inconsistent implementations across architectures,
using kernel_page_present() + set_direct_map_valid_noflush() to save
non-present pages in the hibernation image is not very safe, to say the
least.
Worse, some combinations of debug features, such as debug_pagealloc and
PAGE_POISON cause a crash during restore.
Keeping debug_pagealloc compatible with hibernation requires a complex
infrastructure for tracking free unmapped pages with a page flag/page type,
verifying that it is actually a free page that hibernate_map_page() tries
to remap and making sure there are no stale or failed page table updates.
With init_on_{alloc,free} and/or PAGE_POISON on top, this also requires the
ability to map and initialize these free pages on restore.
This complexity does not seem justified for a somewhat niche debugging
scenario.
Instead of a complex fix to support hibernation with debug_pagealloc, make
sure that copy_data_pages() and its helpers properly handle errors that may
happen during page table updates, explicitly enable saving of KFENCE pages
and disallow hibernation when debug_pagealloc is enabled.
---
Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) (5):
hibernation: make swsusp_page helpers static
hibernation: ensure secretmem pages don't reach a snapshot
hibernate: handle potential errors in hibernate_{map,unmap}_page()
hibernation, KFENCE: explicitly map/unmap KFENCE pages
hibernation: make hibernation unavailable when debug_pagealloc is on
include/linux/kfence.h | 29 ++++++++++
include/linux/suspend.h | 6 ---
kernel/power/hibernate.c | 6 +++
kernel/power/snapshot.c | 137 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
mm/kfence/core.c | 52 +++++++++++++++++-
5 files changed, 159 insertions(+), 71 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: 0820e2e85e8aafde66256c567ad37a5b15708d4d
change-id: 20260916-hibernation-7603b86eb981
--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.
next reply other threads:[~2026-09-17 6:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-17 6:07 Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) [this message]
2026-09-17 6:07 ` [PATCH 1/5] hibernation: make swsusp_page helpers static Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-09-17 6:07 ` [PATCH 2/5] hibernation: ensure secretmem pages don't reach a snapshot Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-09-17 6:07 ` [PATCH 3/5] hibernate: handle potential errors in hibernate_{map,unmap}_page() Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-09-17 6:07 ` [PATCH 4/5] hibernation, KFENCE: explicitly map/unmap KFENCE pages Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-09-17 6:07 ` [PATCH 5/5] hibernation: make hibernation unavailable when debug_pagealloc is on Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
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