This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled powerpc/kasan: Fix addr error caused by page alignment to the 5.15-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: powerpc-kasan-fix-addr-error-caused-by-page-alignmen.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 45aceecbf0df3a4e4aa6885985bb55b85ea8cebc Author: Jiangfeng Xiao <xiaojiangfeng@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Jan 23 09:45:59 2024 +0800 powerpc/kasan: Fix addr error caused by page alignment [ Upstream commit 4a7aee96200ad281a5cc4cf5c7a2e2a49d2b97b0 ] In kasan_init_region, when k_start is not page aligned, at the begin of for loop, k_cur = k_start & PAGE_MASK is less than k_start, and then `va = block + k_cur - k_start` is less than block, the addr va is invalid, because the memory address space from va to block is not alloced by memblock_alloc, which will not be reserved by memblock_reserve later, it will be used by other places. As a result, memory overwriting occurs. for example: int __init __weak kasan_init_region(void *start, size_t size) { [...] /* if say block(dcd97000) k_start(feef7400) k_end(feeff3fe) */ block = memblock_alloc(k_end - k_start, PAGE_SIZE); [...] for (k_cur = k_start & PAGE_MASK; k_cur < k_end; k_cur += PAGE_SIZE) { /* at the begin of for loop * block(dcd97000) va(dcd96c00) k_cur(feef7000) k_start(feef7400) * va(dcd96c00) is less than block(dcd97000), va is invalid */ void *va = block + k_cur - k_start; [...] } [...] } Therefore, page alignment is performed on k_start before memblock_alloc() to ensure the validity of the VA address. Fixes: 663c0c9496a6 ("powerpc/kasan: Fix shadow area set up for modules.") Signed-off-by: Jiangfeng Xiao <xiaojiangfeng@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://msgid.link/1705974359-43790-1-git-send-email-xiaojiangfeng@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/kasan/kasan_init_32.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/kasan/kasan_init_32.c index f3e4d069e0ba..643fc525897d 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/kasan/kasan_init_32.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/kasan/kasan_init_32.c @@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ int __init __weak kasan_init_region(void *start, size_t size) if (ret) return ret; + k_start = k_start & PAGE_MASK; block = memblock_alloc(k_end - k_start, PAGE_SIZE); if (!block) return -ENOMEM;