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arm64/mm: Poison initmem while freeing with free_reserved_area()

Message ID 1570163038-32067-1-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com (mailing list archive)
State Mainlined
Commit 6ec939f8b809cb06ba7802e17ef7024d1bc0ee84
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Series arm64/mm: Poison initmem while freeing with free_reserved_area() | expand

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Anshuman Khandual Oct. 4, 2019, 4:23 a.m. UTC
Platform implementation for free_initmem() should poison the memory while
freeing it up. Hence pass across POISON_FREE_INITMEM while calling into
free_reserved_area(). The same is being followed in the generic fallback
for free_initmem() and some other platforms overriding it.

Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Steven Price Oct. 4, 2019, 10:19 a.m. UTC | #1
On 04/10/2019 05:23, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> Platform implementation for free_initmem() should poison the memory while
> freeing it up. Hence pass across POISON_FREE_INITMEM while calling into
> free_reserved_area(). The same is being followed in the generic fallback
> for free_initmem() and some other platforms overriding it.
> 
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>

Is there a good reason you haven't made a similar change to
free_initrd_mem() - the same logic seems to apply. However this change
looks fine to me.

Reviewed-by: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>

> ---
>  arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> index 45c00a54909c..ea7d38011e83 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> @@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ void free_initmem(void)
>  {
>  	free_reserved_area(lm_alias(__init_begin),
>  			   lm_alias(__init_end),
> -			   0, "unused kernel");
> +			   POISON_FREE_INITMEM, "unused kernel");
>  	/*
>  	 * Unmap the __init region but leave the VM area in place. This
>  	 * prevents the region from being reused for kernel modules, which
>
Anshuman Khandual Oct. 4, 2019, 10:48 a.m. UTC | #2
On 10/04/2019 03:49 PM, Steven Price wrote:
> On 04/10/2019 05:23, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>> Platform implementation for free_initmem() should poison the memory while
>> freeing it up. Hence pass across POISON_FREE_INITMEM while calling into
>> free_reserved_area(). The same is being followed in the generic fallback
>> for free_initmem() and some other platforms overriding it.
>>
>> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
>> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
>> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
>> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
>> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
> 
> Is there a good reason you haven't made a similar change to
> free_initrd_mem() - the same logic seems to apply. However this change
> looks fine to me.

We will use generic free_initrd_mem() going forward as proposed in a recent
patch which does call free_reserved_area() with POISON_FREE_INITMEM.

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11165379/

> 
> Reviewed-by: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
> 
>> ---
>>  arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
>> index 45c00a54909c..ea7d38011e83 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
>> @@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ void free_initmem(void)
>>  {
>>  	free_reserved_area(lm_alias(__init_begin),
>>  			   lm_alias(__init_end),
>> -			   0, "unused kernel");
>> +			   POISON_FREE_INITMEM, "unused kernel");
>>  	/*
>>  	 * Unmap the __init region but leave the VM area in place. This
>>  	 * prevents the region from being reused for kernel modules, which
>>
> 
>
Steven Price Oct. 4, 2019, 10:52 a.m. UTC | #3
On 04/10/2019 11:48, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/04/2019 03:49 PM, Steven Price wrote:
>> On 04/10/2019 05:23, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>>> Platform implementation for free_initmem() should poison the memory while
>>> freeing it up. Hence pass across POISON_FREE_INITMEM while calling into
>>> free_reserved_area(). The same is being followed in the generic fallback
>>> for free_initmem() and some other platforms overriding it.
>>>
>>> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
>>> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
>>> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
>>> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
>>> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
>>
>> Is there a good reason you haven't made a similar change to
>> free_initrd_mem() - the same logic seems to apply. However this change
>> looks fine to me.
> 
> We will use generic free_initrd_mem() going forward as proposed in a recent
> patch which does call free_reserved_area() with POISON_FREE_INITMEM.
> 
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11165379/

Great - that sounds like a very good reason!

Thanks,

Steve

>>
>> Reviewed-by: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
>>
>>> ---
>>>  arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 2 +-
>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
>>> index 45c00a54909c..ea7d38011e83 100644
>>> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
>>> @@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ void free_initmem(void)
>>>  {
>>>  	free_reserved_area(lm_alias(__init_begin),
>>>  			   lm_alias(__init_end),
>>> -			   0, "unused kernel");
>>> +			   POISON_FREE_INITMEM, "unused kernel");
>>>  	/*
>>>  	 * Unmap the __init region but leave the VM area in place. This
>>>  	 * prevents the region from being reused for kernel modules, which
>>>
>>
>>
> 
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>
Will Deacon Oct. 15, 2019, 12:49 a.m. UTC | #4
On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 09:53:58AM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> Platform implementation for free_initmem() should poison the memory while
> freeing it up. Hence pass across POISON_FREE_INITMEM while calling into
> free_reserved_area(). The same is being followed in the generic fallback
> for free_initmem() and some other platforms overriding it.
> 
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> index 45c00a54909c..ea7d38011e83 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> @@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ void free_initmem(void)
>  {
>  	free_reserved_area(lm_alias(__init_begin),
>  			   lm_alias(__init_end),
> -			   0, "unused kernel");
> +			   POISON_FREE_INITMEM, "unused kernel");

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>

Will
Catalin Marinas Oct. 16, 2019, 12:56 p.m. UTC | #5
On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 09:53:58AM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> Platform implementation for free_initmem() should poison the memory while
> freeing it up. Hence pass across POISON_FREE_INITMEM while calling into
> free_reserved_area(). The same is being followed in the generic fallback
> for free_initmem() and some other platforms overriding it.
> 
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>

Queued for 5.5. Thanks.
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diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
index 45c00a54909c..ea7d38011e83 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
@@ -571,7 +571,7 @@  void free_initmem(void)
 {
 	free_reserved_area(lm_alias(__init_begin),
 			   lm_alias(__init_end),
-			   0, "unused kernel");
+			   POISON_FREE_INITMEM, "unused kernel");
 	/*
 	 * Unmap the __init region but leave the VM area in place. This
 	 * prevents the region from being reused for kernel modules, which