Re: [RFC PATCH v1] powerpc: Enable KFENCE for PPC32

Marco Elver
2021-03-02T09:35:23Z

On Tue, 2 Mar 2021 at 09:37, Christophe Leroy
<christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> wrote:
> Add architecture specific implementation details for KFENCE and enable
> KFENCE for the ppc32 architecture. In particular, this implements the
> required interface in <asm/kfence.h>.

Nice!

> KFENCE requires that attributes for pages from its memory pool can
> individually be set. Therefore, force the Read/Write linear map to be
> mapped at page granularity.
>
> Unit tests succeed on all tests but one:
>
> [ 15.053324] # test_invalid_access: EXPECTATION FAILED at mm/kfence/kfence_test.c:636
> [ 15.053324] Expected report_matches(&expect) to be true, but is false
> [ 15.068359] not ok 21 - test_invalid_access

This is strange, given all the other tests passed. Do you mind sharing
the full test log?

Thanks,
-- Marco