From: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
To: pratyush@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, david@redhat.com,
lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com, Liam.Howlett@oracle.com,
vbabka@kernel.org, rppt@kernel.org, graf@amazon.com,
pasha.tatashin@soleen.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, surenb@google.com, mhocko@suse.com,
urezki@gmail.com
Subject: [PATCH v1 0/2] Fix KASAN support for KHO restored vmalloc regions
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:02:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260225220223.1695350-1-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> (raw)
When KHO restores a vmalloc area, it maps existing physical pages into a
newly allocated virtual memory area. However, because these areas were not
properly unpoisoned, KASAN would treat any access to the restored region
as out-of-bounds, as seen in the following trace:
BUG: KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds in kho_test_restore_data.isra.0+0x17b/0x2cd
Read of size 8 at addr ffffc90000025000 by task swapper/0/1
[...]
Call Trace:
[...]
kasan_report+0xe8/0x120
kho_test_restore_data.isra.0+0x17b/0x2cd
kho_test_init+0x15a/0x1f0
do_one_initcall+0xd5/0x4b0
The fix involves deferring KASAN's default poisoning by using the
VM_UNINITIALIZED flag during allocation, manually unpoisoning the
memory once it is correctly mapped, and then clearing the uninitialized
flag using a newly exported helper.
Pasha Tatashin (2):
mm/vmalloc: export clear_vm_uninitialized_flag()
kho: fix KASAN support for restored vmalloc regions
kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c | 12 +++++++++++-
mm/internal.h | 2 ++
mm/vmalloc.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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2.53.0.414.gf7e9f6c205-goog
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