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Commit 9a0732ef authored by Lecopzer Chen's avatar Lecopzer Chen Committed by Catalin Marinas
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arm64: kasan: don't populate vmalloc area for CONFIG_KASAN_VMALLOC



Linux support KAsan for VMALLOC since commit 3c5c3cfb
("kasan: support backing vmalloc space with real shadow memory")

Like how the MODULES_VADDR does now, just not to early populate
the VMALLOC_START between VMALLOC_END.

Before:

MODULE_VADDR: no mapping, no zero shadow at init
VMALLOC_VADDR: backed with zero shadow at init

After:

MODULE_VADDR: no mapping, no zero shadow at init
VMALLOC_VADDR: no mapping, no zero shadow at init

Thus the mapping will get allocated on demand by the core function
of KASAN_VMALLOC.

  -----------  vmalloc_shadow_start
 |           |
 |           |
 |           | <= non-mapping
 |           |
 |           |
 |-----------|
 |///////////|<- kimage shadow with page table mapping.
 |-----------|
 |           |
 |           | <= non-mapping
 |           |
 ------------- vmalloc_shadow_end
 |00000000000|
 |00000000000| <= Zero shadow
 |00000000000|
 ------------- KASAN_SHADOW_END

Signed-off-by: default avatarLecopzer Chen <lecopzer.chen@mediatek.com>
Acked-by: default avatarAndrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Tested-by: default avatarAndrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Tested-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210324040522.15548-2-lecopzer.chen@mediatek.com


[catalin.marinas@arm.com: add a build check on VMALLOC_START != MODULES_END]
Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
parent 1e28eed1
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