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Date:   Mon, 31 Oct 2022 15:12:33 +0000
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To:     Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc:     Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] mempool: Do not use ksize() for poisoning
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On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 04:00:25PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> +++ b/mm/mempool.c
> @@ -57,8 +57,10 @@ static void __check_element(mempool_t *pool, void *element, size_t size)
>  static void check_element(mempool_t *pool, void *element)
>  {
>  	/* Mempools backed by slab allocator */
> -	if (pool->free == mempool_free_slab || pool->free == mempool_kfree) {
> +	if (pool->free == mempool_kfree) {
>  		__check_element(pool, element, (size_t)pool->pool_data);
> +	} else if (pool->free == mempool_free_slab) {
> +		__check_element(pool, element, kmem_cache_size(pool->pool_data));
>  	} else if (pool->free == mempool_free_pages) {
>  		/* Mempools backed by page allocator */
>  		int order = (int)(long)pool->pool_data;

I had a quick look at this to be sure I understood what was going on,
and I found a grotesque bug that has been with us since the introduction
of check_element() in 2015.

+       if (pool->free == mempool_free_pages) {
+               int order = (int)(long)pool->pool_data;
+               void *addr = kmap_atomic((struct page *)element);
+
+               __check_element(pool, addr, 1UL << (PAGE_SHIFT + order));
+               kunmap_atomic(addr);

kmap_atomic() and friends only map a single page.  So this is all
nonsense for HIGHMEM kernels, GFP_HIGHMEM allocations and order > 0.
The consequence of doing that will be calling memset(POISON_INUSE)
on random pages that we don't own.