From 77e02cf57b6cff9919949defb7fd9b8ac16399a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2021 13:23:22 -0700 Subject: memblock: introduce saner 'memblock_free_ptr()' interface The boot-time allocation interface for memblock is a mess, with 'memblock_alloc()' returning a virtual pointer, but then you are supposed to free it with 'memblock_free()' that takes a _physical_ address. Not only is that all kinds of strange and illogical, but it actually causes bugs, when people then use it like a normal allocation function, and it fails spectacularly on a NULL pointer: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210912140820.GD25450@xsang-OptiPlex-9020/ or just random memory corruption if the debug checks don't catch it: https://lore.kernel.org/all/61ab2d0c-3313-aaab-514c-e15b7aa054a0@suse.cz/ I really don't want to apply patches that treat the symptoms, when the fundamental cause is this horribly confusing interface. I started out looking at just automating a sane replacement sequence, but because of this mix or virtual and physical addresses, and because people have used the "__pa()" macro that can take either a regular kernel pointer, or just the raw "unsigned long" address, it's all quite messy. So this just introduces a new saner interface for freeing a virtual address that was allocated using 'memblock_alloc()', and that was kept as a regular kernel pointer. And then it converts a couple of users that are obvious and easy to test, including the 'xbc_nodes' case in lib/bootconfig.c that caused problems. Reported-by: kernel test robot Fixes: 40caa127f3c7 ("init: bootconfig: Remove all bootconfig data when the init memory is removed") Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/memblock.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/memblock.h b/include/linux/memblock.h index b066024c62e3..34de69b3b8ba 100644 --- a/include/linux/memblock.h +++ b/include/linux/memblock.h @@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ int memblock_mark_nomap(phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t size); int memblock_clear_nomap(phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t size); void memblock_free_all(void); +void memblock_free_ptr(void *ptr, size_t size); void reset_node_managed_pages(pg_data_t *pgdat); void reset_all_zones_managed_pages(void); -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b