From: Hao Ge <hao.ge@linux.dev>
To: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>, Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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>,
Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Hao Ge <hao.ge@linux.dev>
Subject: [PATCH v4 0/9] mm/vmalloc: fix up vmap error handling
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 19:25:37 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261110112546.261415-1-hao.ge@linux.dev> (raw)
__vmap_pages_range_noflush() and friends can install some PTEs before
failing and leave them mapped, and the kernel callers do not agree on
who cleans them up. pcpu_map_pages() and kmsan_ioremap_page_range()
roll back what they mapped before the failure, while
vm_module_tags_populate() and the __GFP_NOFAIL retry loop in
__vmalloc_area_node() rely on the mapping functions cleaning up and
do not call anything like vunmap_range() themselves. When the same
range is mapped again, the attempt hits the leftovers and fails with
a warning in vmap_pages_pte_range(). A leftover huge pmd is worse.
During the retry, vmap_try_huge_pmd() calls pmd_free_pte_page() on
it, and the x86 implementation cannot tell a leaf entry from a page
table and frees the mapped page.
After discussing with Suren and Ulad [1], we move the rollback into
the mapping functions. A failed vmap leaves nothing mapped, and the
callers no longer clean up after it.
Patch 1 is the KMSAN part. The shadow and the origin of a range are
mapped by two separate calls, so the rollback there has to cover
both. Patch 2 is its disabled-KMSAN counterpart. Patches 3 to 5 bug
out on an unaligned range at the entry of the three range walkers.
Patch 6 only flushes the cache once the mapping succeeded. Patch 7
adds the rollback to __vmap_pages_range_noflush() and
vmap_page_range(). Patches 8 and 9 drop the powerpc and percpu
cleanups that are not needed anymore.
Changes since v3:
- drop v3 patch 3. The clamp papered over the caller bug, a bad
range now BUG_ONs at the unmap entry
- drop v3 patch 4. The reworked walk (24bbe1c56f63a) propagates
the errors already
- drop v3 patch 6. The walk below checks the range already
- the map side checks moved from the pte level to the entries of
vmap_range_noflush() and the walk, and became BUG_ON, in line
with the unmap side
- rebase onto the walk rework, commit messages updated accordingly
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260915070001.113559-3-hao.ge@linux.dev/
v3 link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20261026080329.140244-1-hao.ge@linux.dev/
v2 link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20261019054531.87652-1-hao.ge@linux.dev/
v1 link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20261009063619.112313-1-hao.ge@linux.dev/
Hao Ge (9):
mm/kmsan: undo the shadow mapping when the origin mapping fails
mm/kmsan: skip vunmap_range_noflush when KMSAN is disabled
mm/vmalloc: BUG_ON() on an unaligned range in vmap_range_noflush()
mm/vmalloc: BUG_ON() on an unaligned range in
vmap_pages_range_noflush_walk()
mm/vmalloc: BUG_ON() on an unaligned range in __vunmap_range_noflush()
mm/vmalloc: only flush the cache after the vmap succeeded
mm/vmalloc: undo partial mappings inside the mapping functions
powerpc: drop redundant unmaps of failed vmap mappings
mm/percpu: stop unmapping the CPU that failed to map
arch/powerpc/kernel/isa-bridge.c | 5 +--
arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_64.c | 4 +-
include/linux/kmsan.h | 8 +++-
mm/kmsan/hooks.c | 21 ++++++---
mm/kmsan/shadow.c | 9 +++-
mm/percpu-vm.c | 5 ++-
mm/vmalloc.c | 75 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
mm/vmalloc.h | 6 ++-
8 files changed, 94 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
--
2.25.1
next reply other threads:[~2026-11-10 11:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-10 11:25 Hao Ge [this message]
2026-11-10 11:25 ` [PATCH v4 1/9] mm/kmsan: undo the shadow mapping when the origin mapping fails Hao Ge
2026-11-10 11:25 ` [PATCH v4 2/9] mm/kmsan: skip vunmap_range_noflush when KMSAN is disabled Hao Ge
2026-11-10 11:25 ` [PATCH v4 3/9] mm/vmalloc: BUG_ON() on an unaligned range in vmap_range_noflush() Hao Ge
2026-11-10 12:28 ` Hao Ge
2026-11-10 11:25 ` [PATCH v4 4/9] mm/vmalloc: BUG_ON() on an unaligned range in vmap_pages_range_noflush_walk() Hao Ge
2026-11-10 11:25 ` [PATCH v4 5/9] mm/vmalloc: BUG_ON() on an unaligned range in __vunmap_range_noflush() Hao Ge
2026-11-10 11:25 ` [PATCH v4 6/9] mm/vmalloc: only flush the cache after the vmap succeeded Hao Ge
2026-11-10 11:25 ` [PATCH v4 7/9] mm/vmalloc: undo partial mappings inside the mapping functions Hao Ge
2026-11-10 11:25 ` [PATCH v4 8/9] powerpc: drop redundant unmaps of failed vmap mappings Hao Ge
2026-11-10 11:25 ` [PATCH v4 9/9] mm/percpu: stop unmapping the CPU that failed to map Hao Ge
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