The quilt patch titled Subject: mm: kmsan: fix poisoning of high-order non-compound pages has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-kmsan-fix-poisoning-of-high-order-non-compound-pages.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-hotfixes-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
------------------------------------------------------ From: Ryan Roberts ryan.roberts@arm.com Subject: mm: kmsan: fix poisoning of high-order non-compound pages Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2026 13:43:47 +0000
kmsan_free_page() is called by the page allocator's free_pages_prepare() during page freeing. Its job is to poison all the memory covered by the page. It can be called with an order-0 page, a compound high-order page or a non-compound high-order page. But page_size() only works for order-0 and compound pages. For a non-compound high-order page it will incorrectly return PAGE_SIZE.
The implication is that the tail pages of a high-order non-compound page do not get poisoned at free, so any invalid access while they are free could go unnoticed. It looks like the pages will be poisoned again at allocation time, so that would bookend the window.
Fix this by using the order parameter to calculate the size.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260104134348.3544298-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com Fixes: b073d7f8aee4 ("mm: kmsan: maintain KMSAN metadata for page operations") Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts ryan.roberts@arm.com Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko glider@google.com Tested-by: Alexander Potapenko glider@google.com Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov dvyukov@google.com Cc: Dmitry Vyukov dvyukov@google.com Cc: Marco Elver elver@google.com Cc: Ryan Roberts ryan.roberts@arm.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---
mm/kmsan/shadow.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/kmsan/shadow.c~mm-kmsan-fix-poisoning-of-high-order-non-compound-pages +++ a/mm/kmsan/shadow.c @@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ void kmsan_free_page(struct page *page, if (!kmsan_enabled || kmsan_in_runtime()) return; kmsan_enter_runtime(); - kmsan_internal_poison_memory(page_address(page), page_size(page), + kmsan_internal_poison_memory(page_address(page), PAGE_SIZE << order, GFP_KERNEL & ~(__GFP_RECLAIM), KMSAN_POISON_CHECK | KMSAN_POISON_FREE); kmsan_leave_runtime(); _
Patches currently in -mm which might be from ryan.roberts@arm.com are