From: Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@ellerman.id.au>
To: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] powerpc/kasan: Fix shadow memory protection with CONFIG_KASAN_VMALLOC
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2020 22:37:51 +1100 (AEDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48kzCg4YfDz9sSg@ozlabs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ef5248fc1f496c6b0dfdb59380f24968f25f75c5.1583513368.git.christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
On Fri, 2020-03-06 at 16:49:49 UTC, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> With CONFIG_KASAN_VMALLOC, new page tables are created at the time
> shadow memory for vmalloc area in unmapped. If some parts of the
> page table still has entries to the zero page shadow memory, the
> entries are wrongly marked RW.
>
> With CONFIG_KASAN_VMALLOC, almost the entire kernel address space
> is managed by KASAN. To make it simple, just create KASAN page tables
> for the entire kernel space at kasan_init(). That doesn't use much
> more space, and that's anyway already done for hash platforms.
>
> Fixes: 3d4247fcc938 ("powerpc/32: Add support of KASAN_VMALLOC")
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Applied to powerpc fixes, thanks.
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/af3d0a68698c7e5df8b72267086b23422a3954bb
cheers
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2020-03-06 16:49 [PATCH v3] powerpc/kasan: Fix shadow memory protection with CONFIG_KASAN_VMALLOC Christophe Leroy
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