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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-09-14 13:23:22 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-09-14 13:23:22 -0700 |
| commit | 77e02cf57b6cff9919949defb7fd9b8ac16399a2 (patch) | |
| tree | 96d0a1d317e28e7b22165ca419c99f7313e64ea3 /arch/x86/mm | |
| parent | 6a4746ba06191e23d30230738e94334b26590a8a (diff) | |
| download | linux-77e02cf57b6cff9919949defb7fd9b8ac16399a2.tar.bz2 | |
memblock: introduce saner 'memblock_free_ptr()' interface
The boot-time allocation interface for memblock is a mess, with
'memblock_alloc()' returning a virtual pointer, but then you are
supposed to free it with 'memblock_free()' that takes a _physical_
address.
Not only is that all kinds of strange and illogical, but it actually
causes bugs, when people then use it like a normal allocation function,
and it fails spectacularly on a NULL pointer:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210912140820.GD25450@xsang-OptiPlex-9020/
or just random memory corruption if the debug checks don't catch it:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/61ab2d0c-3313-aaab-514c-e15b7aa054a0@suse.cz/
I really don't want to apply patches that treat the symptoms, when the
fundamental cause is this horribly confusing interface.
I started out looking at just automating a sane replacement sequence,
but because of this mix or virtual and physical addresses, and because
people have used the "__pa()" macro that can take either a regular
kernel pointer, or just the raw "unsigned long" address, it's all quite
messy.
So this just introduces a new saner interface for freeing a virtual
address that was allocated using 'memblock_alloc()', and that was kept
as a regular kernel pointer. And then it converts a couple of users
that are obvious and easy to test, including the 'xbc_nodes' case in
lib/bootconfig.c that caused problems.
Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Fixes: 40caa127f3c7 ("init: bootconfig: Remove all bootconfig data when the init memory is removed")
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/mm/kasan_init_64.c | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/mm/numa.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/mm/numa_emulation.c | 3 |
3 files changed, 4 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/kasan_init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/kasan_init_64.c index 1a50434c8a4d..ef885370719a 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/kasan_init_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/kasan_init_64.c @@ -49,8 +49,7 @@ static void __init kasan_populate_pmd(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, p = early_alloc(PMD_SIZE, nid, false); if (p && pmd_set_huge(pmd, __pa(p), PAGE_KERNEL)) return; - else if (p) - memblock_free(__pa(p), PMD_SIZE); + memblock_free_ptr(p, PMD_SIZE); } p = early_alloc(PAGE_SIZE, nid, true); @@ -86,8 +85,7 @@ static void __init kasan_populate_pud(pud_t *pud, unsigned long addr, p = early_alloc(PUD_SIZE, nid, false); if (p && pud_set_huge(pud, __pa(p), PAGE_KERNEL)) return; - else if (p) - memblock_free(__pa(p), PUD_SIZE); + memblock_free_ptr(p, PUD_SIZE); } p = early_alloc(PAGE_SIZE, nid, true); diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/numa.c b/arch/x86/mm/numa.c index a1b5c71099e6..1e9b93b088db 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/numa.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/numa.c @@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ void __init numa_reset_distance(void) /* numa_distance could be 1LU marking allocation failure, test cnt */ if (numa_distance_cnt) - memblock_free(__pa(numa_distance), size); + memblock_free_ptr(numa_distance, size); numa_distance_cnt = 0; numa_distance = NULL; /* enable table creation */ } diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/numa_emulation.c b/arch/x86/mm/numa_emulation.c index 737491b13728..e801e30089c4 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/numa_emulation.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/numa_emulation.c @@ -517,8 +517,7 @@ void __init numa_emulation(struct numa_meminfo *numa_meminfo, int numa_dist_cnt) } /* free the copied physical distance table */ - if (phys_dist) - memblock_free(__pa(phys_dist), phys_size); + memblock_free_ptr(phys_dist, phys_size); return; no_emu: |