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authorYeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>2025-07-03 19:10:18 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2025-07-17 18:32:15 +0200
commit595f78d99b9051600233c0a5c4c47e1097e6ed01 (patch)
tree21f682cf92895565daa20e8c9b83e64702353eaa
parent8c90dbc93f637c929a9d9aa51e53cb976f479f89 (diff)
kasan: remove kasan_find_vm_area() to prevent possible deadlock
commit 6ee9b3d84775944fb8c8a447961cd01274ac671c upstream. find_vm_area() couldn't be called in atomic_context. If find_vm_area() is called to reports vm area information, kasan can trigger deadlock like: CPU0 CPU1 vmalloc(); alloc_vmap_area(); spin_lock(&vn->busy.lock) spin_lock_bh(&some_lock); <interrupt occurs> <in softirq> spin_lock(&some_lock); <access invalid address> kasan_report(); print_report(); print_address_description(); kasan_find_vm_area(); find_vm_area(); spin_lock(&vn->busy.lock) // deadlock! To prevent possible deadlock while kasan reports, remove kasan_find_vm_area(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250703181018.580833-1-yeoreum.yun@arm.com Fixes: c056a364e954 ("kasan: print virtual mapping info in reports") Signed-off-by: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com> Reported-by: Yunseong Kim <ysk@kzalloc.com> Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com> Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com> Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--mm/kasan/report.c13
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/mm/kasan/report.c b/mm/kasan/report.c
index 6ad986c267b5..d21d216f838a 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/report.c
+++ b/mm/kasan/report.c
@@ -337,17 +337,8 @@ static void print_address_description(void *addr, u8 tag,
}
if (is_vmalloc_addr(addr)) {
- struct vm_struct *va = find_vm_area(addr);
-
- if (va) {
- pr_err("The buggy address belongs to the virtual mapping at\n"
- " [%px, %px) created by:\n"
- " %pS\n",
- va->addr, va->addr + va->size, va->caller);
- pr_err("\n");
-
- page = vmalloc_to_page(addr);
- }
+ pr_err("The buggy address %px belongs to a vmalloc virtual mapping\n", addr);
+ page = vmalloc_to_page(addr);
}
if (page) {