Per Catalin's comment in https://lore.kernel.org/all/Yvu4bBmykYr+0CXk@xxxxxxx/T/#u this patch should be ignored, because 6.0-rc1 is fine. We just have to fix 5.19 by reverting 07313a2b29ed from it. On Tue, 16 Aug 2022 at 16:25, Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Due to recent changes to kmemleak and how memblock allocated memory is > stored in the phys object tree of kmemleak, 07313a2b29ed ("mm: kfence: > apply kmemleak_ignore_phys on early allocated pool") tried to fix KFENCE > compatibility. > > KFENCE's memory can't simply be ignored, but must be freed completely > due to it being handed out on slab allocations, and the slab post-alloc > hook attempting to insert the object to the kmemleak object tree. > > Without this fix, reports like the below will appear during boot, and > kmemleak is effectively rendered useless when KFENCE is enabled: > > | kmemleak: Cannot insert 0xffffff806e24f000 into the object search tree (overlaps existing) > | CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.19.0-v8-0815+ #5 > | Hardware name: Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 Rev 1.0 (DT) > | Call trace: > | dump_backtrace.part.0+0x1dc/0x1ec > | show_stack+0x24/0x80 > | dump_stack_lvl+0x8c/0xb8 > | dump_stack+0x1c/0x38 > | create_object.isra.0+0x490/0x4b0 > | kmemleak_alloc+0x3c/0x50 > | kmem_cache_alloc+0x2f8/0x450 > | __proc_create+0x18c/0x400 > | proc_create_reg+0x54/0xd0 > | proc_create_seq_private+0x94/0x120 > | init_mm_internals+0x1d8/0x248 > | kernel_init_freeable+0x188/0x388 > | kernel_init+0x30/0x150 > | ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 > | kmemleak: Kernel memory leak detector disabled > | kmemleak: Object 0xffffff806e24d000 (size 2097152): > | kmemleak: comm "swapper", pid 0, jiffies 4294892296 > | kmemleak: min_count = -1 > | kmemleak: count = 0 > | kmemleak: flags = 0x5 > | kmemleak: checksum = 0 > | kmemleak: backtrace: > | kmemleak_alloc_phys+0x94/0xb0 > | memblock_alloc_range_nid+0x1c0/0x20c > | memblock_alloc_internal+0x88/0x100 > | memblock_alloc_try_nid+0x148/0x1ac > | kfence_alloc_pool+0x44/0x6c > | mm_init+0x28/0x98 > | start_kernel+0x178/0x3e8 > | __primary_switched+0xc4/0xcc > > Reported-by: Max Schulze <max.schulze@xxxxxxxxx> > Fixes: 07313a2b29ed ("mm: kfence: apply kmemleak_ignore_phys on early allocated pool") > Fixes: 0c24e061196c ("mm: kmemleak: add rbtree and store physical address for objects allocated with PA") > Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> > Cc: Yee Lee <yee.lee@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > > Note: This easily reproduces on v5.19, but on 6.0-rc1 the issue is > hidden by yet more kmemleak changes, but properly freeing the pool is > the correct thing to do either way, given the post-alloc slab hooks. > --- > mm/kfence/core.c | 11 ++++++----- > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/mm/kfence/core.c b/mm/kfence/core.c > index c252081b11df..9e52f2b87374 100644 > --- a/mm/kfence/core.c > +++ b/mm/kfence/core.c > @@ -617,12 +617,13 @@ static bool __init kfence_init_pool_early(void) > > if (!addr) { > /* > - * The pool is live and will never be deallocated from this point on. > - * Ignore the pool object from the kmemleak phys object tree, as it would > - * otherwise overlap with allocations returned by kfence_alloc(), which > - * are registered with kmemleak through the slab post-alloc hook. > + * The pool is live and will never be deallocated from this > + * point on. Remove the pool object from the kmemleak phys > + * object tree, as it would otherwise overlap with allocations > + * returned by kfence_alloc(), which are registered with > + * kmemleak through the slab post-alloc hook. > */ > - kmemleak_ignore_phys(__pa(__kfence_pool)); > + kmemleak_free_part_phys(__pa(__kfence_pool), KFENCE_POOL_SIZE); > return true; > } > > -- > 2.37.1.595.g718a3a8f04-goog >