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kfence: skip all GFP_ZONEMASK allocations
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commit 236e9f1 upstream.

Allocation requests outside ZONE_NORMAL (MOVABLE, HIGHMEM or DMA) cannot
be fulfilled by KFENCE, because KFENCE memory pool is located in a zone
different from the requested one.

Because callers of kmem_cache_alloc() may actually rely on the
allocation to reside in the requested zone (e.g.  memory allocations
done with __GFP_DMA must be DMAable), skip all allocations done with
GFP_ZONEMASK and/or respective SLAB flags (SLAB_CACHE_DMA and
SLAB_CACHE_DMA32).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210714092222.1890268-2-glider@google.com
Fixes: 0ce20dd ("mm: add Kernel Electric-Fence infrastructure")
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Acked-by: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[5.12+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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ramosian-glider authored and gregkh committed Jul 28, 2021
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Expand Up @@ -740,6 +740,15 @@ void *__kfence_alloc(struct kmem_cache *s, size_t size, gfp_t flags)
if (size > PAGE_SIZE)
return NULL;

/*
* Skip allocations from non-default zones, including DMA. We cannot
* guarantee that pages in the KFENCE pool will have the requested
* properties (e.g. reside in DMAable memory).
*/
if ((flags & GFP_ZONEMASK) ||
(s->flags & (SLAB_CACHE_DMA | SLAB_CACHE_DMA32)))
return NULL;

/*
* allocation_gate only needs to become non-zero, so it doesn't make
* sense to continue writing to it and pay the associated contention
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