On Thu, 19 Apr 2018, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > Maybe make it conditional on CONFIG_DEBUG_SG too? > Otherwise I think you just trigger a hard to debug memory corruption. OK, here I resend the patch with CONFIG_DEBUG_SG. With CONFIG_DEBUG_SG, the DMA API will print a stacktrace where the misuse happened, so it's much easier to debug than with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM. Fedora doesn't use CONFIG_DEBUG_SG in its default kernel (it only uses it in the debugging kernel), so users won't be hurt by this. From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [PATCH] kvmalloc: always use vmalloc if CONFIG_DEBUG_SG The kvmalloc function tries to use kmalloc and falls back to vmalloc if kmalloc fails. Unfortunatelly, some kernel code has bugs - it uses kvmalloc and then uses DMA-API on the returned memory or frees it with kfree. Such bugs were found in the virtio-net driver, dm-integrity or RHEL7 powerpc-specific code. These bugs are hard to reproduce because vmalloc falls back to kmalloc only if memory is fragmented. In order to detect these bugs reliably I submit this patch that changes kvmalloc to always use vmalloc if CONFIG_DEBUG_SG is turned on. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/util.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) Index: linux-2.6/mm/util.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/util.c 2018-04-18 15:46:23.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/mm/util.c 2018-04-19 23:14:14.000000000 +0200 @@ -395,6 +395,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vm_mmap); */ void *kvmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node) { +#ifndef CONFIG_DEBUG_SG gfp_t kmalloc_flags = flags; void *ret; @@ -426,6 +427,7 @@ void *kvmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t f */ if (ret || size <= PAGE_SIZE) return ret; +#endif return __vmalloc_node_flags_caller(size, node, flags, __builtin_return_address(0));