kasan: Avoid sleepable page allocation from atomic context

Hi All,

Chages since v3:
- pfn_to_virt() changed to page_to_virt() due to compile error

Chages since v2:
- page allocation moved out of the atomic context

Chages since v1:
- Fixes: and -stable tags added to the patch description

Thanks!

Alexander Gordeev (1):
kasan: Avoid sleepable page allocation from atomic context

 mm/kasan/shadow.c | 63 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

2.45.2

apply_to_pte_range() enters the lazy MMU mode and then invokes kasan_populate_vmalloc_pte() callback on each page table walk iteration. However, the callback can go into sleep when trying to allocate a single page, e.g. if an architecutre disables preemption on lazy MMU mode enter.

On s390 if make arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode() -> preempt_enable() and arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode() -> preempt_disable(), such crash occurs:

    [  553.332108] preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
    [  553.332117] no locks held by multipathd/2116.
    [  553.332128] CPU: 24 PID: 2116 Comm: multipathd Kdump: loaded Tainted:
    [  553.332139] Hardware name: IBM 3931 A01 701 (LPAR)
    [  553.332146] Call Trace:
    [  553.332152]  [<00000000158de23a>] dump_stack_lvl+0xfa/0x150
    [  553.332167]  [<0000000013e10d12>] __might_resched+0x57a/0x5e8
    [  553.332178]  [<00000000144eb6c2>] __alloc_pages+0x2ba/0x7c0
    [  553.332189]  [<00000000144d5cdc>] __get_free_pages+0x2c/0x88
    [  553.332198]  [<00000000145663f6>] kasan_populate_vmalloc_pte+0x4e/0x110
    [  553.332207]  [<000000001447625c>] apply_to_pte_range+0x164/0x3c8
    [  553.332218]  [<000000001448125a>] apply_to_pmd_range+0xda/0x318
    [  553.332226]  [<000000001448181c>] __apply_to_page_range+0x384/0x768
    [  553.332233]  [<0000000014481c28>] apply_to_page_range+0x28/0x38
    [  553.332241]  [<00000000145665da>] kasan_populate_vmalloc+0x82/0x98
    [  553.332249]  [<00000000144c88d0>] alloc_vmap_area+0x590/0x1c90
    [  553.332257]  [<00000000144ca108>] __get_vm_area_node.constprop.0+0x138/0x260
    [  553.332265]  [<00000000144d17fc>] __vmalloc_node_range+0x134/0x360
    [  553.332274]  [<0000000013d5dbf2>] alloc_thread_stack_node+0x112/0x378
    [  553.332284]  [<0000000013d62726>] dup_task_struct+0x66/0x430
    [  553.332293]  [<0000000013d63962>] copy_process+0x432/0x4b80
    [  553.332302]  [<0000000013d68300>] kernel_clone+0xf0/0x7d0
    [  553.332311]  [<0000000013d68bd6>] __do_sys_clone+0xae/0xc8
    [  553.332400]  [<0000000013d68dee>] __s390x_sys_clone+0xd6/0x118
    [  553.332410]  [<0000000013c9d34c>] do_syscall+0x22c/0x328
    [  553.332419]  [<00000000158e7366>] __do_syscall+0xce/0xf0
    [  553.332428]  [<0000000015913260>] system_call+0x70/0x98

Instead of allocating single pages per-PTE, bulk-allocate the shadow memory prior to applying kasan_populate_vmalloc_pte() callback on a page range.

---
 mm/kasan/shadow.c | 63 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

index 88d1c9dcb507..fac521b8a7e1 100644
@@ -292,30 +292,63 @@ void __init __weak kasan_populate_early_vm_area_shadow(void *start,
 {
 }
 
+struct vmalloc_populate_data {
+	unsigned long start;
+	struct page **pages;
+};
+
 static int kasan_populate_vmalloc_pte(pte_t *ptep, unsigned long addr,
-				      void *unused)
+				      void *_data)
 {
-	unsigned long page;
+	struct vmalloc_populate_data *data = _data;
+	struct page *page;
 	pte_t pte;
 
 	if (likely(!pte_none(ptep_get(ptep))))
 		return 0;
 
-	page = __get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!page)
-		return -ENOMEM;
-
-	__memset((void *)page, KASAN_VMALLOC_INVALID, PAGE_SIZE);
-	pte = pfn_pte(PFN_DOWN(__pa(page)), PAGE_KERNEL);
+	page = data->pages[PFN_DOWN(addr - data->start)];
+	__memset(page_to_virt(page), KASAN_VMALLOC_INVALID, PAGE_SIZE);
+	pte = pfn_pte(page_to_pfn(page), PAGE_KERNEL);
 
 	spin_lock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
-	if (likely(pte_none(ptep_get(ptep)))) {
+	if (likely(pte_none(ptep_get(ptep))))
 		set_pte_at(&init_mm, addr, ptep, pte);
-		page = 0;
-	}
 	spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
-	if (page)
-		free_page(page);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static int __kasan_populate_vmalloc(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
+{
+	unsigned long nr_pages, nr_total = PFN_UP(end - start);
+	struct vmalloc_populate_data data;
+	int ret;
+
+	data.pages = (struct page **)__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!data.pages)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	while (nr_total) {
+		nr_pages = min(nr_total, PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(data.pages[0]));
+		__memset(data.pages, 0, nr_pages * sizeof(data.pages[0]));
+		if (nr_pages != alloc_pages_bulk(GFP_KERNEL, nr_pages, data.pages)) {
+			free_page((unsigned long)data.pages);
+			return -ENOMEM;
+		}
+
+		data.start = start;
+		ret = apply_to_page_range(&init_mm, start, nr_pages * PAGE_SIZE,
+					  kasan_populate_vmalloc_pte, &data);
+		if (ret)
+			return ret;
+
+		start += nr_pages * PAGE_SIZE;
+		nr_total -= nr_pages;
+	}
+
+	free_page((unsigned long)data.pages);
+
 	return 0;
 }
 

@@ -348,9 +381,7 @@ int kasan_populate_vmalloc(unsigned long addr, unsigned long size)
 	shadow_start = PAGE_ALIGN_DOWN(shadow_start);
 	shadow_end = PAGE_ALIGN(shadow_end);
 
-	ret = apply_to_page_range(&init_mm, shadow_start,
-				  shadow_end - shadow_start,
-				  kasan_populate_vmalloc_pte, NULL);
+	ret = __kasan_populate_vmalloc(shadow_start, shadow_end);
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 

2.45.2

On Tue, May 06, 2025 at 04:34:32PM +0200, Alexander Gordeev wrote:

Self-NACK based on comments to v3.