Re: [PATCH] mm, kasan: fix __GFP_BITS_SHIFT definition breaking LOCKDEP

From: Vlastimil Babka
Date: Mon Mar 28 2022 - 06:10:48 EST


On 3/27/22 19:00, andrey.konovalov@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> KASAN changes that added new GFP flags mistakenly updated __GFP_BITS_SHIFT
> as the total number of GFP bits instead of as a shift used to define
> __GFP_BITS_MASK.
>
> This broke LOCKDEP, as __GFP_BITS_MASK now gets the 25th bit enabled
> instead of the 28th for __GFP_NOLOCKDEP.
>
> Update __GFP_BITS_SHIFT to always count KASAN GFP bits.
>
> In the future, we could handle all combinations of KASAN and LOCKDEP to
> occupy as few bits as possible. For now, we have enough GFP bits to be
> inefficient in this quick fix.
>
> Fixes: 9353ffa6e9e9 ("kasan, page_alloc: allow skipping memory init for HW_TAGS")
> Fixes: 53ae233c30a6 ("kasan, page_alloc: allow skipping unpoisoning for HW_TAGS")
> Fixes: f49d9c5bb15c ("kasan, mm: only define ___GFP_SKIP_KASAN_POISON with HW_TAGS")
> Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>

> ---
> include/linux/gfp.h | 4 +---
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
> index 0fa17fb85de5..761f8f1885c7 100644
> --- a/include/linux/gfp.h
> +++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
> @@ -264,9 +264,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
> #define __GFP_NOLOCKDEP ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NOLOCKDEP)
>
> /* Room for N __GFP_FOO bits */
> -#define __GFP_BITS_SHIFT (24 + \
> - 3 * IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KASAN_HW_TAGS) + \
> - IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_LOCKDEP))
> +#define __GFP_BITS_SHIFT (27 + IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_LOCKDEP))
> #define __GFP_BITS_MASK ((__force gfp_t)((1 << __GFP_BITS_SHIFT) - 1))
>
> /**