Re: [PATCH] mm: page_alloc: ignore init_on_free=1 for page alloc
From: Andrey Konovalov
Date: Mon Mar 29 2021 - 18:01:48 EST
On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 2:10 PM Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > commit 855a9c4018f3219db8be7e4b9a65ab22aebfde82
> > Author: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Thu Mar 18 17:01:40 2021 +1100
> >
> > kasan, mm: integrate page_alloc init with HW_TAGS
>
> But the mmotm patch/-next commit also changes post_alloc_hook()
>
> Before the patch it was:
> kernel_unpoison_pages(page, 1 << order);
> ...
> kernel_init_free_pages(page, 1 << order);
>
> Now it is (for !kasan_has_integrated_init()):
>
> kernel_init_free_pages(page, 1 << order);
>
> kernel_unpoison_pages(page, 1 << order);
>
> That has to be wrong, because we init the page with zeroes and then call
> kernel_unpoison_pages() which checks for the 0xaa pattern. Andrey?
It's similar to free_pages_prepare(): kernel_unpoison_pages() and
want_init_on_alloc() are exclusive, so the order shouldn't matter. Am
I missing something?