From: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
To: Hao Ge <hao.ge@linux.dev>, Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>,
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>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] mm/kmsan: undo the shadow mapping when the origin mapping fails
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 20:24:57 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45c5ebc9-a4d2-44e6-a08f-79676ecb0579@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261019054531.87652-2-hao.ge@linux.dev>
On 19/10/26 11:15 am, Hao Ge wrote:
> kmsan_vmap_pages_range_noflush() first maps the shadow pages and then
> the origin pages. If the second mapping fails, the first one is left
> mapped, and the callers do not roll it back. The next vmap of the
> same metadata range hits the stale PTEs again and BUG()s on the huge
> mapping path, or gets -EBUSY with a WARN_ON() on the small page one.
>
> Undo the shadow mapping on that error path, the same way
> kmsan_ioremap_page_range() cleans up after a partial failure.
> __vunmap_range_noflush() only clears the PTEs; nothing has touched
> the shadow mapping, so no TLB flush is needed.
>
> Fixes: 47ebd0310e89 ("mm: kmsan: handle alloc failures in kmsan_vmap_pages_range_noflush()")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Hao Ge <hao.ge@linux.dev>
> ---
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
> mm/kmsan/shadow.c | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/mm/kmsan/shadow.c b/mm/kmsan/shadow.c
> index 0c88d89bf0d6..2166086d3dc3 100644
> --- a/mm/kmsan/shadow.c
> +++ b/mm/kmsan/shadow.c
> @@ -258,6 +258,10 @@ int kmsan_vmap_pages_range_noflush(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
> o_pages, page_shift);
> kmsan_leave_runtime();
> if (mapped) {
> + /* Undo the shadow mapping set up above. */
> + kmsan_enter_runtime();
> + __vunmap_range_noflush(shadow_start, shadow_end);
> + kmsan_leave_runtime();
> err = mapped;
> goto ret;
> }
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-19 14:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-19 5:45 [PATCH v2 0/5] mm/vmalloc: make the mapping functions undo their partial mappings Hao Ge
2026-10-19 5:45 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] mm/kmsan: undo the shadow mapping when the origin mapping fails Hao Ge
2026-10-19 14:54 ` Dev Jain [this message]
2026-10-19 5:45 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] mm/kmsan: skip vunmap_range_noflush when KMSAN is disabled Hao Ge
2026-10-19 15:22 ` Dev Jain
2026-10-19 5:45 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] mm/vmalloc: undo partial mappings inside the mapping functions Hao Ge
2026-10-19 5:45 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] powerpc: drop redundant unmaps of failed vmap mappings Hao Ge
2026-10-19 5:45 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] mm/percpu: stop unmapping the CPU that failed to map Hao Ge
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