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arm64: efi: Fix KASAN false positive for EFI runtime stack
authorBreno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Fri, 4 Jul 2025 12:47:07 +0000 (05:47 -0700)
committerWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Fri, 4 Jul 2025 13:47:06 +0000 (14:47 +0100)
commitef8923e6c051a98164c2889db943df9695a39888
treeea5eee060784a73c7b77ce9564ed597d52a0b58c
parent39dfc971e42d886e7df01371cd1bef505076d84c
arm64: efi: Fix KASAN false positive for EFI runtime stack

KASAN reports invalid accesses during arch_stack_walk() for EFI runtime
services due to vmalloc tagging[1]. The EFI runtime stack must be allocated
with KASAN tags reset to avoid false positives.

This patch uses arch_alloc_vmap_stack() instead of __vmalloc_node() for
EFI stack allocation, which internally calls kasan_reset_tag()

The changes ensure EFI runtime stacks are properly sanitized for KASAN
while maintaining functional consistency.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aFVVEgD0236LdrL6@gmail.com/
Suggested-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250704-arm_kasan-v2-1-32ebb4fd7607@debian.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
arch/arm64/kernel/efi.c