* [PATCH v1 0/2] Fix KASAN support for KHO restored vmalloc regions
@ 2026-02-25 22:38 Pasha Tatashin
2026-02-25 22:38 ` [PATCH v1 1/2] mm/vmalloc: export clear_vm_uninitialized_flag() Pasha Tatashin
2026-02-25 22:38 ` [PATCH v1 2/2] kho: fix KASAN support for restored vmalloc regions Pasha Tatashin
0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Pasha Tatashin @ 2026-02-25 22:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pratyush, akpm, david, lorenzo.stoakes, Liam.Howlett, vbabka,
rppt, graf, pasha.tatashin, linux-mm, linux-kernel, surenb,
mhocko, urezki
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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* [PATCH v1 1/2] mm/vmalloc: export clear_vm_uninitialized_flag()
2026-02-25 22:38 [PATCH v1 0/2] Fix KASAN support for KHO restored vmalloc regions Pasha Tatashin
@ 2026-02-25 22:38 ` Pasha Tatashin
2026-02-25 22:38 ` [PATCH v1 2/2] kho: fix KASAN support for restored vmalloc regions Pasha Tatashin
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From: Pasha Tatashin @ 2026-02-25 22:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pratyush, akpm, david, lorenzo.stoakes, Liam.Howlett, vbabka,
rppt, graf, pasha.tatashin, linux-mm, linux-kernel, surenb,
mhocko, urezki
Make clear_vm_uninitialized_flag() available to other parts of the
kernel that need to manage vmalloc areas manually, such as KHO for
restoring vmallocs.
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
---
mm/internal.h | 2 ++
mm/vmalloc.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index 39ab37bb0e1d..2daa6a744172 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -1469,6 +1469,8 @@ int __must_check vmap_pages_range_noflush(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
}
#endif
+void clear_vm_uninitialized_flag(struct vm_struct *vm);
+
int __must_check __vmap_pages_range_noflush(unsigned long addr,
unsigned long end, pgprot_t prot,
struct page **pages, unsigned int page_shift);
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index 56e3611c562a..33216b3c15de 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -3189,7 +3189,7 @@ void __init vm_area_register_early(struct vm_struct *vm, size_t align)
kasan_populate_early_vm_area_shadow(vm->addr, vm->size);
}
-static void clear_vm_uninitialized_flag(struct vm_struct *vm)
+void clear_vm_uninitialized_flag(struct vm_struct *vm)
{
/*
* Before removing VM_UNINITIALIZED,
--
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2026-02-25 22:38 ` [PATCH v1 1/2] mm/vmalloc: export clear_vm_uninitialized_flag() Pasha Tatashin
@ 2026-02-25 22:38 ` Pasha Tatashin
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From: Pasha Tatashin @ 2026-02-25 22:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pratyush, akpm, david, lorenzo.stoakes, Liam.Howlett, vbabka,
rppt, graf, pasha.tatashin, linux-mm, linux-kernel, surenb,
mhocko, urezki
Restored vmalloc regions are currently not properly marked for KASAN,
causing KASAN to treat accesses to these regions as out-of-bounds.
Fix this by properly unpoisoning the restored vmalloc area using
kasan_unpoison_vmalloc(). This requires setting the VM_UNINITIALIZED
flag during the initial area allocation and clearing it after the pages
have been mapped and unpoisoned, using the clear_vm_uninitialized_flag()
helper.
Reported-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Fixes: a667300bd53f ("kho: add support for preserving vmalloc allocations")
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
---
kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c | 12 +++++++++++-
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c b/kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c
index 410098bae0bf..747a35107c84 100644
--- a/kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c
+++ b/kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
#include <linux/cma.h>
#include <linux/kmemleak.h>
#include <linux/count_zeros.h>
+#include <linux/kasan.h>
#include <linux/kexec.h>
#include <linux/kexec_handover.h>
#include <linux/kho_radix_tree.h>
@@ -1077,6 +1078,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kho_unpreserve_vmalloc);
void *kho_restore_vmalloc(const struct kho_vmalloc *preservation)
{
struct kho_vmalloc_chunk *chunk = KHOSER_LOAD_PTR(preservation->first);
+ kasan_vmalloc_flags_t kasan_flags = KASAN_VMALLOC_PROT_NORMAL;
unsigned int align, order, shift, vm_flags;
unsigned long total_pages, contig_pages;
unsigned long addr, size;
@@ -1128,7 +1130,8 @@ void *kho_restore_vmalloc(const struct kho_vmalloc *preservation)
goto err_free_pages_array;
area = __get_vm_area_node(total_pages * PAGE_SIZE, align, shift,
- vm_flags, VMALLOC_START, VMALLOC_END,
+ vm_flags | VM_UNINITIALIZED,
+ VMALLOC_START, VMALLOC_END,
NUMA_NO_NODE, GFP_KERNEL,
__builtin_return_address(0));
if (!area)
@@ -1143,6 +1146,13 @@ void *kho_restore_vmalloc(const struct kho_vmalloc *preservation)
area->nr_pages = total_pages;
area->pages = pages;
+ if (vm_flags & VM_ALLOC)
+ kasan_flags |= KASAN_VMALLOC_VM_ALLOC;
+
+ area->addr = kasan_unpoison_vmalloc(area->addr, total_pages * PAGE_SIZE,
+ kasan_flags);
+ clear_vm_uninitialized_flag(area);
+
return area->addr;
err_free_vm_area:
--
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* [PATCH v1 0/2] Fix KASAN support for KHO restored vmalloc regions
@ 2026-02-25 22:02 Pasha Tatashin
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Pasha Tatashin @ 2026-02-25 22:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pratyush, akpm, david, lorenzo.stoakes, Liam.Howlett, vbabka,
rppt, graf, pasha.tatashin, linux-mm, linux-kernel, surenb,
mhocko, urezki
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(-)
--
2.53.0.414.gf7e9f6c205-goog
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