mm/vmalloc, mm/kasan: respect gfp mask in kasan_populate_vmalloc()
authorUladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Sun, 31 Aug 2025 12:10:58 +0000 (14:10 +0200)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 9 Sep 2025 06:45:11 +0000 (23:45 -0700)
commit79357cd06d41d0f5a11b17d7c86176e395d10ef2
treed9918f16f97e3c802154863d03aa93f8cfd8f55f
parent04100f775c2ea501927f508f17ad824ad1f23c8d
mm/vmalloc, mm/kasan: respect gfp mask in kasan_populate_vmalloc()

kasan_populate_vmalloc() and its helpers ignore the caller's gfp_mask and
always allocate memory using the hardcoded GFP_KERNEL flag.  This makes
them inconsistent with vmalloc(), which was recently extended to support
GFP_NOFS and GFP_NOIO allocations.

Page table allocations performed during shadow population also ignore the
external gfp_mask.  To preserve the intended semantics of GFP_NOFS and
GFP_NOIO, wrap the apply_to_page_range() calls into the appropriate
memalloc scope.

xfs calls vmalloc with GFP_NOFS, so this bug could lead to deadlock.

There was a report here
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/686ea951.050a0220.385921.0016.GAE@google.com

This patch:
 - Extends kasan_populate_vmalloc() and helpers to take gfp_mask;
 - Passes gfp_mask down to alloc_pages_bulk() and __get_free_page();
 - Enforces GFP_NOFS/NOIO semantics with memalloc_*_save()/restore()
   around apply_to_page_range();
 - Updates vmalloc.c and percpu allocator call sites accordingly.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250831121058.92971-1-urezki@gmail.com
Fixes: 451769ebb7e7 ("mm/vmalloc: alloc GFP_NO{FS,IO} for vmalloc")
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Reported-by: syzbot+3470c9ffee63e4abafeb@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/kasan.h
mm/kasan/shadow.c
mm/vmalloc.c