From: Hao Ge <hao.ge@linux.dev>
To: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>, Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
"Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" <chleroy@kernel.org>,
"Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>,
Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>,
Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
Marco Elver <elver@google.com>,
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Hao Ge <hao.ge@linux.dev>, Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v4 6/9] mm/vmalloc: only flush the cache after the vmap succeeded
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 19:25:43 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261110112546.261415-7-hao.ge@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261110112546.261415-1-hao.ge@linux.dev>
vmap_page_range() and __vmap_pages_range() call flush_cache_vmap()
before they even look at the error code. A failed mapping is never
used, so the flush is pointless at best.
According to the Sashiko review it is worse than pointless on UML:
flush_cache_vmap() there is flush_tlb_kernel_range(), which syncs the
PTEs into the host OS. Flushing a half-installed mapping therefore
leaves host mappings behind for a range that was just freed again.
Only flush when the mapping, and for vmap_page_range() also the KMSAN
metadata, is fully set up.
Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Hao Ge <hao.ge@linux.dev>
---
mm/vmalloc.c | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index 0565cbfe325c..3f98056f8c7e 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -369,10 +369,12 @@ int vmap_page_range(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
err = vmap_range_noflush(addr, end, phys_addr, pgprot_nx(prot),
ioremap_max_page_shift);
- flush_cache_vmap(addr, end);
if (!err)
err = kmsan_ioremap_page_range(addr, end, phys_addr, prot,
ioremap_max_page_shift);
+ if (!err)
+ flush_cache_vmap(addr, end);
+
return err;
}
@@ -758,7 +760,9 @@ static int __vmap_pages_range(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
int err;
err = vmap_pages_range_noflush(addr, end, prot, pages, page_shift, gfp_mask);
- flush_cache_vmap(addr, end);
+ if (!err)
+ flush_cache_vmap(addr, end);
+
return err;
}
--
2.25.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-10 11:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-10 11:25 [PATCH v4 0/9] mm/vmalloc: fix up vmap error handling Hao Ge
2026-11-10 11:25 ` [PATCH v4 1/9] mm/kmsan: undo the shadow mapping when the origin mapping fails Hao Ge
2026-11-11 21:03 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-11-12 7:50 ` Hao Ge
2026-11-12 15:50 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-11-10 11:25 ` [PATCH v4 2/9] mm/kmsan: skip vunmap_range_noflush when KMSAN is disabled Hao Ge
2026-11-11 22:10 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-11-12 7:32 ` Hao Ge
2026-11-10 11:25 ` [PATCH v4 3/9] mm/vmalloc: BUG_ON() on an unaligned range in vmap_range_noflush() Hao Ge
2026-11-10 12:28 ` Hao Ge
2026-11-12 0:00 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-11-12 12:23 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2026-11-10 11:25 ` [PATCH v4 4/9] mm/vmalloc: BUG_ON() on an unaligned range in vmap_pages_range_noflush_walk() Hao Ge
2026-11-12 0:16 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-11-12 7:22 ` Hao Ge
2026-11-12 12:11 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2026-11-10 11:25 ` [PATCH v4 5/9] mm/vmalloc: BUG_ON() on an unaligned range in __vunmap_range_noflush() Hao Ge
2026-11-12 0:22 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-11-12 12:15 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2026-11-10 11:25 ` Hao Ge [this message]
2026-11-12 0:30 ` [PATCH v4 6/9] mm/vmalloc: only flush the cache after the vmap succeeded Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-11-12 7:01 ` Hao Ge
2026-11-12 12:16 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2026-11-10 11:25 ` [PATCH v4 7/9] mm/vmalloc: undo partial mappings inside the mapping functions Hao Ge
2026-11-12 1:15 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2026-11-12 6:27 ` Hao Ge
2026-11-12 12:19 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2026-11-10 11:25 ` [PATCH v4 8/9] powerpc: drop redundant unmaps of failed vmap mappings Hao Ge
2026-11-10 11:25 ` [PATCH v4 9/9] mm/percpu: stop unmapping the CPU that failed to map Hao Ge
2026-11-11 20:45 ` [PATCH v4 0/9] mm/vmalloc: fix up vmap error handling Suren Baghdasaryan
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