The address still includes the tags when it is printed. With hardware tag-based kasan enabled, we will get a false positive KASAN issue when we access metadata. Reset the tag before we access the metadata. Fixes: aa1ef4d7b3f6 ("kasan, mm: reset tags when accessing metadata") Signed-off-by: Kuan-Ying Lee <Kuan-Ying.Lee@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/slub.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c index b6c5205252eb..f77d8cd79ef7 100644 --- a/mm/slub.c +++ b/mm/slub.c @@ -576,8 +576,8 @@ static void print_section(char *level, char *text, u8 *addr, unsigned int length) { metadata_access_enable(); - print_hex_dump(level, kasan_reset_tag(text), DUMP_PREFIX_ADDRESS, - 16, 1, addr, length, 1); + print_hex_dump(level, text, DUMP_PREFIX_ADDRESS, + 16, 1, kasan_reset_tag((void *)addr), length, 1); metadata_access_disable(); } -- 2.18.0