Re: [PATCH] arm64/mm: Poison initmem while freeing with free_reserved_area()

From: Will Deacon
Date: Mon Oct 14 2019 - 20:49:47 EST


On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 09:53:58AM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> Platform implementation for free_initmem() should poison the memory while
> freeing it up. Hence pass across POISON_FREE_INITMEM while calling into
> free_reserved_area(). The same is being followed in the generic fallback
> for free_initmem() and some other platforms overriding it.
>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> index 45c00a54909c..ea7d38011e83 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> @@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ void free_initmem(void)
> {
> free_reserved_area(lm_alias(__init_begin),
> lm_alias(__init_end),
> - 0, "unused kernel");
> + POISON_FREE_INITMEM, "unused kernel");

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>

Will