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KHO: fix boot failure due to kmemleak access to non-PRESENT pages
authorRan Xiaokai <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn>
Sat, 22 Nov 2025 18:29:29 +0000 (18:29 +0000)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 27 Nov 2025 22:24:43 +0000 (14:24 -0800)
commit40cd0e8dd283b11aff9628fe7fd810ea7cc53e32
treee398283cb06c5a46cfa2aee9217d622c7e01f354
parentfb5c3644278c169c0d03b904b2bdedcaea897df7
KHO: fix boot failure due to kmemleak access to non-PRESENT pages

When booting with debug_pagealloc=on while having:
CONFIG_KEXEC_HANDOVER_ENABLE_DEFAULT=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF=n
the system fails to boot due to page faults during kmemleak scanning.

This occurs because:
With debug_pagealloc is enabled, __free_pages() invokes
debug_pagealloc_unmap_pages(), clearing the _PAGE_PRESENT bit for freed
pages in the kernel page table.  KHO scratch areas are allocated from
memblock and noted by kmemleak.  But these areas don't remain reserved but
released later to the page allocator using init_cma_reserved_pageblock().
This causes subsequent kmemleak scans access non-PRESENT pages, leading to
fatal page faults.

Mark scratch areas with kmemleak_ignore_phys() after they are allocated
from memblock to exclude them from kmemleak scanning before they are
released to buddy allocator to fix this.

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Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251127122700.103927-1-ranxiaokai627@163.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251122182929.92634-1-ranxiaokai627@163.com
Signed-off-by: Ran Xiaokai <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Changyuan Lyu <changyuanl@google.com>
Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c