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From: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
To: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
	Marco Elver <elver@google.com>,
	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>,
	kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v1] mm: kmsan: Fix poisoning of high-order non-compound pages
Date: Sun,  4 Jan 2026 13:43:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260104134348.3544298-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com> (raw)

kmsan_free_page() is called by the page allocator's free_pages_prepare()
during page freeing. It's job is to poison all the memory covered by the
page. It can be called with an order-0 page, a compound high-order page
or a non-compound high-order page. But page_size() only works for
order-0 and compound pages. For a non-compound high-order page it will
incorrectly return PAGE_SIZE.

The implication is that the tail pages of a high-order non-compound page
do not get poisoned at free, so any invalid access while they are free
could go unnoticed. It looks like the pages will be poisoned again at
allocaiton time, so that would bookend the window.

Fix this by using the order parameter to calculate the size.

Fixes: b073d7f8aee4 ("mm: kmsan: maintain KMSAN metadata for page operations")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
---

Hi,

I noticed this during code review, so perhaps I've just misunderstood the intent
of the code.

I don't have the means to compile and run on x86 with KMSAN enabled though, so
punting this out hoping someone might be able to validate/test. I guess there is
a small chance this could lead to KMSAN finding some new issues?

Applies against today's mm-unstable (344d3580dacd).

Thanks,
Ryan


 mm/kmsan/shadow.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/kmsan/shadow.c b/mm/kmsan/shadow.c
index e7f554a31bb4..9e1c5f2b7a41 100644
--- a/mm/kmsan/shadow.c
+++ b/mm/kmsan/shadow.c
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ void kmsan_free_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
 	if (!kmsan_enabled || kmsan_in_runtime())
 		return;
 	kmsan_enter_runtime();
-	kmsan_internal_poison_memory(page_address(page), page_size(page),
+	kmsan_internal_poison_memory(page_address(page), PAGE_SIZE << order,
 				     GFP_KERNEL & ~(__GFP_RECLAIM),
 				     KMSAN_POISON_CHECK | KMSAN_POISON_FREE);
 	kmsan_leave_runtime();
--
2.43.0



             reply	other threads:[~2026-01-04 13:44 UTC|newest]

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