Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] powerpc/kdump: fix KASAN sanitization flag for core_$(BITS).o

Ritesh Harjani
2026-04-04T01:00:06Z

Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com> writes:

> KASAN instrumentation is intended to be disabled for the kexec core
> code, but the existing Makefile entry misses the object suffix. As a
> result, the flag is not applied correctly to core_$(BITS).o.
>
> So when KASAN is enabled, kexec_copy_flush and copy_segments in
> kexec/core_64.c are instrumented, which can result in accesses to
> shadow memory via normal address translation paths. Since these run
> with the MMU disabled, such accesses may trigger page faults
> (bad_page_fault) that cannot be handled in the kdump path, ultimately
> causing a hang and preventing the kdump kernel from booting. The same
> is true for kexec as well, since the same functions are used there.
>
> Update the entry to include the “.o” suffix so that KASAN
> instrumentation is properly disabled for this object file.
>
> Fixes: 2ab2d5794f14 ("powerpc/kasan: Disable address sanitization in kexec paths")
> Reported-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@linux.ibm.com>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/1dee8891-8bcc-46b4-93f3-fc3a774abd5b@linux.ibm.com/
> Cc: Aboorva Devarajan <aboorvad@linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Aditya Gupta <adityag@linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
> Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
> Cc: Shivang Upadhyay <shivangu@linux.ibm.com>

I guess you missed adding:
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

> Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
> Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@linux.ibm.com>
> Acked-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
> Changelog:
>
> v2:
> - Add Reviewed-by, Acked-by and Tested-by tags
> - No functional changes
>
> v1:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260321053121.614022-1-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com/
> ---
> arch/powerpc/kexec/Makefile | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kexec/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/kexec/Makefile
> index 470eb0453e17..ec7a0eed75dc 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kexec/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kexec/Makefile
> @@ -16,4 +16,4 @@ GCOV_PROFILE_core_$(BITS).o := n
> KCOV_INSTRUMENT_core_$(BITS).o := n
> UBSAN_SANITIZE_core_$(BITS).o := n
> KASAN_SANITIZE_core.o := n
> -KASAN_SANITIZE_core_$(BITS) := n
> +KASAN_SANITIZE_core_$(BITS).o := n
> --
> 2.52.0