As Andrey noticed I'll have to rework this function to be a proper refactor of the previous thing.

This solution seems okay, after noticing the issue I was thinking about adding a new file for vmalloc code that is shared between different KASAN modes. But I'll have to add different mode code in here too anyway. So it's probably okay to keep this function behind the ifdef, I see shadow.c and hw-tags.c doing something similar too.

On 2025-11-05 at 22:00:41 +0000, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:

Hi,

This patch is breaking the build for mm-new with KASAN enabled:

mm/kasan/common.c:587:6: error: no previous prototype for ‘__kasan_unpoison_vmap_areas’ [-Werror=missing-prototypes] 587 | void __kasan_unpoison_vmap_areas(struct vm_struct **vms, int nr_vms)

Looks to be because CONFIG_KASAN_VMALLOC is not set in my configuration, so you probably need to do:

#ifdef CONFIG_KASAN_VMALLOC void __kasan_unpoison_vmap_areas(struct vm_struct **vms, int nr_vms) { int area;

for (area = 0 ; area < nr_vms ; area++) { kasan_poison(vms[area]->addr, vms[area]->size, arch_kasan_get_tag(vms[area]->addr), false); } } #endif

That fixes the build for me.

Andrew - can we maybe apply this just to fix the build as a work around until Maciej has a chance to see if he agrees with this fix?

Thanks, Lorenzo

On Tue, Nov 04, 2025 at 02:49:08PM +0000, Maciej Wieczor-Retman wrote:

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From: Maciej Wieczor-Retman maciej.wieczor-retman@intel.com

A KASAN tag mismatch, possibly causing a kernel panic, can be observed on systems with a tag-based KASAN enabled and with multiple NUMA nodes. It was reported on arm64 and reproduced on x86. It can be explained in the following points:

1. There can be more than one virtual memory chunk.
2. Chunk's base address has a tag.
3. The base address points at the first chunk and thus inherits the tag of the first chunk.
4. The subsequent chunks will be accessed with the tag from the first chunk.
5. Thus, the subsequent chunks need to have their tag set to match that of the first chunk.

Refactor code by moving it into a helper in preparation for the actual fix.

Fixes: 1d96320f8d53 ("kasan, vmalloc: add vmalloc tagging for SW_TAGS") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.1+ Signed-off-by: Maciej Wieczor-Retman maciej.wieczor-retman@intel.com Tested-by: Baoquan He bhe@redhat.com

---

Changelog v1 (after splitting of from the KASAN series):

• Rewrite first paragraph of the patch message to point at the user impact of the issue.
• Move helper to common.c so it can be compiled in all KASAN modes.

include/linux/kasan.h | 10 ++++++++++ mm/kasan/common.c | 11 +++++++++++ mm/vmalloc.c | 4 +--- 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/kasan.h b/include/linux/kasan.h index d12e1a5f5a9a..b00849ea8ffd 100644 --- a/include/linux/kasan.h +++ b/include/linux/kasan.h @@ -614,6 +614,13 @@ static __always_inline void kasan_poison_vmalloc(const void *start, __kasan_poison_vmalloc(start, size); }

+void __kasan_unpoison_vmap_areas(struct vm_struct **vms, int nr_vms); +static __always_inline void kasan_unpoison_vmap_areas(struct vm_struct **vms, int nr_vms) +{

• if (kasan_enabled())

• __kasan_unpoison_vmap_areas(vms, nr_vms);
  

+}

#else /* CONFIG_KASAN_VMALLOC */

static inline void kasan_populate_early_vm_area_shadow(void *start, @@ -638,6 +645,9 @@ static inline void *kasan_unpoison_vmalloc(const void *start, static inline void kasan_poison_vmalloc(const void *start, unsigned long size) { }

+static inline void kasan_unpoison_vmap_areas(struct vm_struct **vms, int nr_vms) +{ }

#endif /* CONFIG_KASAN_VMALLOC */

#if (defined(CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC) || defined(CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS)) && \ diff --git a/mm/kasan/common.c b/mm/kasan/common.c index d4c14359feaf..c63544a98c24 100644 --- a/mm/kasan/common.c +++ b/mm/kasan/common.c @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ #include <linux/string.h> #include <linux/types.h> #include <linux/bug.h> +#include <linux/vmalloc.h>

#include "kasan.h" #include "../slab.h" @@ -582,3 +583,13 @@ bool __kasan_check_byte(const void *address, unsigned long ip) } return true; }

+void __kasan_unpoison_vmap_areas(struct vm_struct **vms, int nr_vms) +{

• int area;
• for (area = 0 ; area < nr_vms ; area++) {

• kasan_poison(vms[area]->addr, vms[area]->size,
  

• 	     arch_kasan_get_tag(vms[area]->addr), false);
  

• }

+} diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c index 798b2ed21e46..934c8bfbcebf 100644 --- a/mm/vmalloc.c +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c @@ -4870,9 +4870,7 @@ struct vm_struct **pcpu_get_vm_areas(const unsigned long *offsets, * With hardware tag-based KASAN, marking is skipped for * non-VM_ALLOC mappings, see __kasan_unpoison_vmalloc(). */

• for (area = 0; area < nr_vms; area++)

• vms[area]->addr = kasan_unpoison_vmalloc(vms[area]->addr,
  

• 		vms[area]->size, KASAN_VMALLOC_PROT_NORMAL);
  

• kasan_unpoison_vmap_areas(vms, nr_vms);

  kfree(vas); return vms;

-- 2.51.0