This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mm: page_alloc: ignore init_on_free=1 for debug_pagealloc=1 to the 5.11-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: mm-page_alloc-ignore-init_on_free-1-for-debug_pagealloc-1.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.11 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 9df65f522536719682bccd24245ff94db956256c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2021 23:02:11 -0700 Subject: mm: page_alloc: ignore init_on_free=1 for debug_pagealloc=1 From: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 9df65f522536719682bccd24245ff94db956256c upstream. On !ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC (like ia64) debug_pagealloc=1 implies page_poison=on: if (page_poisoning_enabled() || (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC) && debug_pagealloc_enabled())) static_branch_enable(&_page_poisoning_enabled); page_poison=on needs to override init_on_free=1. Before the change it did not work as expected for the following case: - have PAGE_POISONING=y - have page_poison unset - have !ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC arch (like ia64) - have init_on_free=1 - have debug_pagealloc=1 That way we get both keys enabled: - static_branch_enable(&init_on_free); - static_branch_enable(&_page_poisoning_enabled); which leads to poisoned pages returned for __GFP_ZERO pages. After the change we execute only: - static_branch_enable(&_page_poisoning_enabled); and ignore init_on_free=1. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210329222555.3077928-1-slyfox@xxxxxxxxxx Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/3/26/443 Fixes: 8db26a3d4735 ("mm, page_poison: use static key more efficiently") Signed-off-by: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -764,32 +764,36 @@ static inline void clear_page_guard(stru */ void init_mem_debugging_and_hardening(void) { + bool page_poisoning_requested = false; + +#ifdef CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING + /* + * Page poisoning is debug page alloc for some arches. If + * either of those options are enabled, enable poisoning. + */ + if (page_poisoning_enabled() || + (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC) && + debug_pagealloc_enabled())) { + static_branch_enable(&_page_poisoning_enabled); + page_poisoning_requested = true; + } +#endif + if (_init_on_alloc_enabled_early) { - if (page_poisoning_enabled()) + if (page_poisoning_requested) pr_info("mem auto-init: CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING is on, " "will take precedence over init_on_alloc\n"); else static_branch_enable(&init_on_alloc); } if (_init_on_free_enabled_early) { - if (page_poisoning_enabled()) + if (page_poisoning_requested) pr_info("mem auto-init: CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING is on, " "will take precedence over init_on_free\n"); else static_branch_enable(&init_on_free); } -#ifdef CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING - /* - * Page poisoning is debug page alloc for some arches. If - * either of those options are enabled, enable poisoning. - */ - if (page_poisoning_enabled() || - (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC) && - debug_pagealloc_enabled())) - static_branch_enable(&_page_poisoning_enabled); -#endif - #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC if (!debug_pagealloc_enabled()) return; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from slyfox@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.11/mm-page_alloc-ignore-init_on_free-1-for-debug_pagealloc-1.patch