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kasan: unpoison vms[area] addresses with a common tag
authorMaciej Wieczor-Retman <maciej.wieczor-retman@intel.com>
Thu, 4 Dec 2025 19:00:11 +0000 (19:00 +0000)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 23 Dec 2025 19:23:12 +0000 (11:23 -0800)
commit6a0e5b333842cf65d6f4e4f0a2a4386504802515
tree6061511bc28edf22d93f4ecaf54cf5e6d5d6dc6b
parent6f13db031e27e88213381039032a9cc061578ea6
kasan: unpoison vms[area] addresses with a common tag

A KASAN tag mismatch, possibly causing a kernel panic, can be observed on
systems with a tag-based KASAN enabled and with multiple NUMA nodes.  It
was reported on arm64 and reproduced on x86.  It can be explained in the
following points:

1. There can be more than one virtual memory chunk.
2. Chunk's base address has a tag.
3. The base address points at the first chunk and thus inherits
   the tag of the first chunk.
4. The subsequent chunks will be accessed with the tag from the
   first chunk.
5. Thus, the subsequent chunks need to have their tag set to
   match that of the first chunk.

Use the new vmalloc flag that disables random tag assignment in
__kasan_unpoison_vmalloc() - pass the same random tag to all the
vm_structs by tagging the pointers before they go inside
__kasan_unpoison_vmalloc().  Assigning a common tag resolves the pcpu
chunk address mismatch.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use WARN_ON_ONCE(), per Andrey]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+fCnZeuGdKSEm11oGT6FS71_vGq1vjq-xY36kxVdFvwmag2ZQ@mail.gmail.com
[maciej.wieczor-retman@intel.com: remove unneeded pr_warn()]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/919897daaaa3c982a27762a2ee038769ad033991.1764945396.git.m.wieczorretman@pm.me
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/873821114a9f722ffb5d6702b94782e902883fdf.1764874575.git.m.wieczorretman@pm.me
Fixes: 1d96320f8d53 ("kasan, vmalloc: add vmalloc tagging for SW_TAGS")
Signed-off-by: Maciej Wieczor-Retman <maciej.wieczor-retman@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [6.1+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/kasan/common.c