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Andrey Ryabinin committed 0f901dcbc31
mm/kasan: don't vfree() nonexistent vm_area
KASAN uses different routines to map shadow for hot added memory and
memory obtained in boot process. Attempt to offline memory onlined by
normal boot process leads to this:
Trying to vfree() nonexistent vm area (000000005d3b34b9)
WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 13215 at mm/vmalloc.c:1525 __vunmap+0x147/0x190
Call Trace:
kasan_mem_notifier+0xad/0xb9
notifier_call_chain+0x166/0x260
__blocking_notifier_call_chain+0xdb/0x140
__offline_pages+0x96a/0xb10
memory_subsys_offline+0x76/0xc0
device_offline+0xb8/0x120
store_mem_state+0xfa/0x120
kernfs_fop_write+0x1d5/0x320
__vfs_write+0xd4/0x530
vfs_write+0x105/0x340
SyS_write+0xb0/0x140
Obviously we can't call vfree() to free memory that wasn't allocated via
vmalloc(). Use find_vm_area() to see if we can call vfree().
Unfortunately it's a bit tricky to properly unmap and free shadow
allocated during boot, so we'll have to keep it. If memory will come
online again that shadow will be reused.
Matthew asked: how can you call vfree() on something that isn't a
vmalloc address?
vfree() is able to free any address returned by
__vmalloc_node_range(). And __vmalloc_node_range() gives you any
address you ask. It doesn't have to be an address in [VMALLOC_START,
VMALLOC_END] range.
That's also how the module_alloc()/module_memfree() works on
architectures that have designated area for modules.
[aryabinin@virtuozzo.com: improve comments]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/dabee6ab-3a7a-51cd-3b86-5468718e0390@virtuozzo.com
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typos, reflow comment]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180201163349.8700-1-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com
Fixes: fa69b5989bb0 ("mm/kasan: add support for memory hotplug")
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Reported-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel+linux-kasan-dev@molgen.mpg.de>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>