linux/kernel/printk
Linus Torvalds 77e02cf57b 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 <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Fixes: 40caa127f3 ("init: bootconfig: Remove all bootconfig data when the init memory is removed")
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-09-14 13:23:22 -07:00
..
braille.c printk: Replace strncmp() with str_has_prefix() 2019-08-16 09:54:08 +02:00
braille.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
console_cmdline.h printk: Fix preferred console selection with multiple matches 2020-02-18 09:34:42 +01:00
index.c printk/index: Fix -Wunused-function warning 2021-08-27 16:42:44 +02:00
internal.h Merge branch 'rework/printk_safe-removal' into for-linus 2021-08-30 16:36:10 +02:00
Makefile printk: Userspace format indexing support 2021-07-19 11:57:48 +02:00
printk_ringbuffer.c Merge branch 'printk-rework' into for-linus 2021-01-21 16:06:21 +01:00
printk_ringbuffer.h printk: rectify kernel-doc for prb_rec_init_wr() 2021-01-26 11:17:51 +01:00
printk_safe.c printk: remove NMI tracking 2021-07-26 15:09:44 +02:00
printk.c memblock: introduce saner 'memblock_free_ptr()' interface 2021-09-14 13:23:22 -07:00