Re: [PATCH v9 06/13] mm/execmem: Untag addresses in EXECMEM_ROX related pointer arithmetic

[Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 02:41:43PM +0000, Maciej Wieczor-Retman wrote:
> From: Maciej Wieczor-Retman <maciej.wieczor-retman@intel.com>
> 
> ARCH_HAS_EXECMEM_ROX was re-enabled in x86 at Linux 6.14 release.
> vm_reset_perms() calculates range's start and end addresses using min()
> and max() functions. To do that it compares pointers but, with KASAN
> software tags mode enabled, some are tagged - addr variable is, while
> start and end variables aren't. This can cause the wrong address to be
> chosen and result in various errors in different places.
> 
> Reset tags in the address used as function argument in min(), max().
> 
> execmem_cache_add() adds tagged pointers to a maple tree structure,
> which then are incorrectly compared when walking the tree. That results
> in different pointers being returned later and page permission violation
> errors panicking the kernel.
> 
> Reset tag of the address range inserted into the maple tree inside
> execmem_vmalloc() which then gets propagated to execmem_cache_add().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maciej Wieczor-Retman <maciej.wieczor-retman@intel.com>
> Acked-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>

Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.