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mm/kfence: fix KASAN hardware tag faults during late enablement
authorAlexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:49:40 +0000 (15:49 +0100)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:13:27 +0000 (11:13 -0800)
commitd155aab90fffa00f93cea1f107aef0a3d548b2ff
tree15ffac74481d8fb50c90f218bcc4eff6dab5ae07
parentc80f46ac228b48403866d65391ad09bdf0e8562a
mm/kfence: fix KASAN hardware tag faults during late enablement

When KASAN hardware tags are enabled, re-enabling KFENCE late (via
/sys/module/kfence/parameters/sample_interval) causes KASAN faults.

This happens because the KFENCE pool and metadata are allocated via the
page allocator, which tags the memory, while KFENCE continues to access it
using untagged pointers during initialization.

Use __GFP_SKIP_KASAN for late KFENCE pool and metadata allocations to
ensure the memory remains untagged, consistent with early allocations from
memblock.  To support this, add __GFP_SKIP_KASAN to the allowlist in
__alloc_contig_verify_gfp_mask().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260220144940.2779209-1-glider@google.com
Fixes: 0ce20dd84089 ("mm: add Kernel Electric-Fence infrastructure")
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Suggested-by: Ernesto Martinez Garcia <ernesto.martinezgarcia@tugraz.at>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/kfence/core.c
mm/page_alloc.c