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Commit 0f901dcb authored by Andrey Ryabinin's avatar Andrey Ryabinin Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm/kasan: don't vfree() nonexistent vm_area

KASAN uses different routines to map shadow for hot added memory and
memory obtained in boot process.  Attempt to offline memory onlined by
normal boot process leads to this:

    Trying to vfree() nonexistent vm area (000000005d3b34b9)
    WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 13215 at mm/vmalloc.c:1525 __vunmap+0x147/0x190

    Call Trace:
     kasan_mem_notifier+0xad/0xb9
     notifier_call_chain+0x166/0x260
     __blocking_notifier_call_chain+0xdb/0x140
     __offline_pages+0x96a/0xb10
     memory_subsys_offline+0x76/0xc0
     device_offline+0xb8/0x120
     store_mem_state+0xfa/0x120
     kernfs_fop_write+0x1d5/0x320
     __vfs_write+0xd4/0x530
     vfs_write+0x105/0x340
     SyS_write+0xb0/0x140

Obviously we can't call vfree() to free memory that wasn't allocated via
vmalloc().  Use find_vm_area() to see if we can call vfree().

Unfortunately it's a bit tricky to properly unmap and free shadow
allocated during boot, so we'll have to keep it.  If memory will come
online again that shadow will be reused.

Matthew asked: how can you call vfree() on something that isn't a
vmalloc address?

  vfree() is able to free any address returned by
  __vmalloc_node_range().  And __vmalloc_node_range() gives you any
  address you ask.  It doesn't have to be an address in [VMALLOC_START,
  VMALLOC_END] range.

  That's also how the module_alloc()/module_memfree() works on
  architectures that have designated area for modules.

[aryabinin@virtuozzo.com: improve comments]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/dabee6ab-3a7a-51cd-3b86-5468718e0390@virtuozzo.com
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typos, reflow comment]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180201163349.8700-1-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com
Fixes: fa69b598

 ("mm/kasan: add support for memory hotplug")
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Reported-by: default avatarPaul Menzel <pmenzel+linux-kasan-dev@molgen.mpg.de>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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