[PATCH mm v5 2/2] kfence: skip all GFP_ZONEMASK allocations

[Alexander Potapenko]

Allocation requests outside ZONE_NORMAL (MOVABLE, HIGHMEM or DMA) cannot
be fulfilled by KFENCE, because KFENCE memory pool is located in a
zone different from the requested one.

Because callers of kmem_cache_alloc() may actually rely on the
allocation to reside in the requested zone (e.g. memory allocations done
with __GFP_DMA must be DMAable), skip all allocations done with
GFP_ZONEMASK and/or respective SLAB flags (SLAB_CACHE_DMA and
SLAB_CACHE_DMA32).

Fixes: 0ce20dd84089 ("mm: add Kernel Electric-Fence infrastructure")
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 5.12+
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@xxxxxxxxx>

---

v2:
 - added parentheses around the GFP clause, as requested by Marco
v3:
 - ignore GFP_ZONEMASK, which also covers __GFP_HIGHMEM and __GFP_MOVABLE
 - move the flag check at the beginning of the function, as requested by
   Souptick Joarder
v4:
 - minor fixes to description and comment formatting
v5:
 - pick Acked-by:, rebase
---
 mm/kfence/core.c | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/kfence/core.c b/mm/kfence/core.c
index 2623ff401a104..575c685aa6422 100644
--- a/mm/kfence/core.c
+++ b/mm/kfence/core.c
@@ -740,6 +740,15 @@ void *__kfence_alloc(struct kmem_cache *s, size_t size, gfp_t flags)
 	if (size > PAGE_SIZE)
 		return NULL;
 
+	/*
+	 * Skip allocations from non-default zones, including DMA. We cannot
+	 * guarantee that pages in the KFENCE pool will have the requested
+	 * properties (e.g. reside in DMAable memory).
+	 */
+	if ((flags & GFP_ZONEMASK) ||
+	    (s->flags & (SLAB_CACHE_DMA | SLAB_CACHE_DMA32)))
+		return NULL;
+
 	/*
 	 * allocation_gate only needs to become non-zero, so it doesn't make
 	 * sense to continue writing to it and pay the associated contention
-- 
2.32.0.93.g670b81a890-goog