Re: [syzbot] [iommu?] kernel BUG in dma_alloc_attrs
From: Sean Anderson
Date: Thu Oct 17 2024 - 10:32:04 EST
On 10/16/24 04:02, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> The problem is that the dma alloc/free tracing calls virt_to_phys
> on the allocated/free memory. But that memory can be vmalloced as
> in this case. I think we don't have weirdo allocators or pools any
> more that are neither in the direct kernel mapping or vmalloc, so
> we might be able to do an
>
> if (is_vmalloc_addr())
> page_to_phys(vmalloc_to_page()))
Do we need offset_in_page?
> else
> virt_to_page()
>
> here. Or just switch to tracing the virtual address to always be
> on the safe side.
>
Since this function returns a virtual address, I think that would be
fine.
--Sean