From: Hao Ge <hao.ge@linux.dev>
To: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
"Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" <chleroy@kernel.org>,
"Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>,
Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>,
Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
Marco Elver <elver@google.com>,
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>,
Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>, Hao Ge <hao.ge@linux.dev>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v3 07/10] mm/vmalloc: only flush the cache after the vmap succeeded
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2026 16:03:26 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261026080329.140244-8-hao.ge@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261026080329.140244-1-hao.ge@linux.dev>
vmap_page_range() and __vmap_pages_range() call flush_cache_vmap()
before they even look at the error code. A failed mapping is never
used, so the flush is pointless at best.
According to the Sashiko review it is worse than pointless on UML:
flush_cache_vmap() there is flush_tlb_kernel_range(), which syncs the
PTEs into the host OS. Flushing a half-installed mapping therefore
leaves host mappings behind for a range that was just freed again.
Only flush when the mapping, and for vmap_page_range() also the KMSAN
metadata, is fully set up.
Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Hao Ge <hao.ge@linux.dev>
---
mm/vmalloc.c | 12 +++++++++---
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index 4d74144dfaff..96e15d6cfc6d 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -359,11 +359,14 @@ int vmap_page_range(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
err = vmap_range_noflush(addr, end, phys_addr, pgprot_nx(prot),
ioremap_max_page_shift);
- flush_cache_vmap(addr, end);
if (!err)
err = kmsan_ioremap_page_range(addr, end, phys_addr, prot,
ioremap_max_page_shift);
- return err;
+ if (err)
+ return err;
+
+ flush_cache_vmap(addr, end);
+ return 0;
}
int ioremap_page_range(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
@@ -745,8 +748,11 @@ static int __vmap_pages_range(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
int err;
err = vmap_pages_range_noflush(addr, end, prot, pages, page_shift, gfp_mask);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
+
flush_cache_vmap(addr, end);
- return err;
+ return 0;
}
/**
--
2.25.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-26 8:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-26 8:03 [PATCH v3 00/10] mm/vmalloc: fix up vmap error handling Hao Ge
2026-10-26 8:03 ` [PATCH v3 01/10] mm/kmsan: undo the shadow mapping when the origin mapping fails Hao Ge
2026-10-26 8:03 ` [PATCH v3 02/10] mm/kmsan: skip vunmap_range_noflush when KMSAN is disabled Hao Ge
2026-10-26 8:03 ` [PATCH v3 03/10] mm/vmalloc: clamp an unaligned range in vunmap_pte_range() Hao Ge
2026-10-30 7:14 ` Dev Jain
2026-10-30 8:30 ` Hao Ge
2026-10-30 14:20 ` Dev Jain
2026-10-26 8:03 ` [PATCH v3 04/10] mm/vmalloc: propagate errors in vmap_pages_p*d_range() Hao Ge
2026-10-30 7:29 ` Dev Jain
2026-10-30 9:18 ` Hao Ge
2026-10-26 8:03 ` [PATCH v3 05/10] mm/vmalloc: reject an unaligned range in vmap_pages_pte_range() Hao Ge
2026-10-26 8:03 ` [PATCH v3 06/10] mm/vmalloc: reject empty and unaligned ranges in __vmap_pages_range_noflush() Hao Ge
2026-10-26 8:03 ` Hao Ge [this message]
2026-10-26 8:03 ` [PATCH v3 08/10] mm/vmalloc: undo partial mappings inside the mapping functions Hao Ge
2026-10-26 8:03 ` [PATCH v3 09/10] powerpc: drop redundant unmaps of failed vmap mappings Hao Ge
2026-10-26 8:03 ` [PATCH v3 10/10] mm/percpu: stop unmapping the CPU that failed to map Hao Ge
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