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Miller" , Dave Hansen , David Hildenbrand , Dmitry Vyukov , Ilias Apalodimas , Ingo Molnar , Jan Kara , Johannes Weiner , "Liam R. Howlett" , Lorenzo Stoakes , Madhavan Srinivasan , Marco Elver , Marek Szyprowski , Masami Hiramatsu , Michael Ellerman , Michal Hocko , Mike Rapoport , Nicholas Piggin , "H. Peter Anvin" , Rob Herring , Robin Murphy , Saravana Kannan , Suren Baghdasaryan , Thomas Gleixner , Vlastimil Babka , Will Deacon , Zi Yan , devicetree@vger.kernel.org, iommu@lists.linux.dev, kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org Subject: [PATCH v2 0/9] memblock: improve late freeing of reserved memory Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:48:27 +0200 Message-ID: <20260323074836.3653702-1-rppt@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.53.0 X-Mailing-List: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org List-Id: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Archive: , List-Subscribe: , , List-Unsubscribe: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" Hi, Following a recent discussion about leaks in x86 EFI [1], I audited usage of memblock_free_late() and free_reserved_area() and made some imporovements how we handle late freeing of the memory allocated with memblock. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/ec2aaef14783869b3be6e3c253b2dcbf67dbc12a.camel@kernel.crashing.org/ v2 changes: * fix UAF issue in memblock_discard() reported by 0day and sashiko * address relevant sashiko comments * squash memblock test stubs changes into the commit with core updates v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260318105827.1358927-1-rppt@kernel.org Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) (9): memblock: reserve_mem: fix end caclulation in reserve_mem_release_by_name() powerpc: fadump: pair alloc_pages_exact() with free_pages_exact() powerpc: opal-core: pair alloc_pages_exact() with free_pages_exact() mm: move free_reserved_area() to mm/memblock.c memblock: make free_reserved_area() more robust memblock: extract page freeing from free_reserved_area() into a helper memblock: make free_reserved_area() update memblock if ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK=y memblock, treewide: make memblock_free() handle late freeing memblock: warn when freeing reserved memory before memory map is initialized arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 3 - arch/powerpc/kernel/fadump.c | 16 +-- arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-core.c | 11 +- arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c | 4 +- arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 2 +- arch/x86/platform/efi/memmap.c | 5 +- arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c | 2 +- drivers/firmware/efi/apple-properties.c | 2 +- drivers/of/kexec.c | 2 +- include/linux/memblock.h | 2 - init/initramfs.c | 7 -- kernel/dma/swiotlb.c | 6 +- lib/bootconfig.c | 2 +- mm/internal.h | 10 ++ mm/kfence/core.c | 4 +- mm/memblock.c | 124 +++++++++++++++------ mm/page_alloc.c | 46 -------- tools/include/linux/mm.h | 1 + tools/testing/memblock/internal.h | 34 +++++- 19 files changed, 144 insertions(+), 139 deletions(-) base-commit: 1f318b96cc84d7c2ab792fcc0bfd42a7ca890681 -- 2.53.0