x86's alloc_node_data() rounds up node data size to PAGE_SIZE. It's not explained why it's needed, but it's most likely for performance reasons, since the padding bytes are not used anywhere. Some other architectures do it as well, e.g., mips rounds it up to the cache line size. kmsan_init_shadow() initializes metadata for each node data and assumes the x86 rounding, which does not match other architectures. This may cause the range end to overshoot the end of available memory, in turn causing virt_to_page_or_null() in kmsan_init_alloc_meta_for_range() to return NULL, which leads to kernel panic shortly after. Since the padding bytes are not used, drop the rounding. Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/kmsan/init.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/kmsan/init.c b/mm/kmsan/init.c index 3ac3b8921d36..9de76ac7062c 100644 --- a/mm/kmsan/init.c +++ b/mm/kmsan/init.c @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ static void __init kmsan_record_future_shadow_range(void *start, void *end) */ void __init kmsan_init_shadow(void) { - const size_t nd_size = roundup(sizeof(pg_data_t), PAGE_SIZE); + const size_t nd_size = sizeof(pg_data_t); phys_addr_t p_start, p_end; u64 loop; int nid; -- 2.45.1