@@ -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
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). Fixes: 0ce20dd84089 ("mm: add Kernel Electric-Fence infrastructure") Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@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: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Acked-by: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@gmail.com> --- v2: - added parentheses around the GFP clause, as requested by Marco v3: - ignore GFP_ZONEMASK, which also covers __GFP_HIGHMEM and __GFP_MOVABLE - move the flag check at the beginning of the function, as requested by Souptick Joarder v4: - minor fixes to description and comment formatting v5: - pick Acked-by:, rebase --- mm/kfence/core.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)