Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] mm: kfence: apply kmemleak_ignore_phys on early allocated pool

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On Fri, 15 Jul 2022 10:17:43 +0200 Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 1:42 PM <yee.lee@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > From: Yee Lee <yee.lee@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > This patch solves two issues.
> >
> > (1) The pool allocated by memblock needs to unregister from
> > kmemleak scanning. Apply kmemleak_ignore_phys to replace the
> > original kmemleak_free as its address now is stored in the phys tree.
> >
> > (2) The pool late allocated by page-alloc doesn't need to unregister.
> > Move out the freeing operation from its call path.
> >
> > Suggested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> > Suggested-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Yee Lee <yee.lee@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Thank you, this fixes the storm of
> 
>     BUG: KFENCE: invalid read in scan_block+0x78/0x130
>     BUG: KFENCE: use-after-free read in scan_block+0x78/0x130
>     BUG: KFENCE: out-of-bounds read in scan_block+0x78/0x130
> 
> messages I was seeing on arm64.

Thanks, but...

- It would be great if we could identify a Fixes: for this.

- This patch has been accused of crashing the kernel:

	https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YsFeUHkrFTQ7T51Q@xsang-OptiPlex-9020

  Do we think that report is bogus?




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