From 2d89dab1ea6086e6cbe6fe92531b496fb6808cb9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yeoreum Yun Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2025 19:10:18 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] kasan: remove kasan_find_vm_area() to prevent possible deadlock commit 6ee9b3d84775944fb8c8a447961cd01274ac671c upstream. find_vm_area() couldn't be called in atomic_context. If find_vm_area() is called to reports vm area information, kasan can trigger deadlock like: CPU0 CPU1 vmalloc(); alloc_vmap_area(); spin_lock(&vn->busy.lock) spin_lock_bh(&some_lock); spin_lock(&some_lock); kasan_report(); print_report(); print_address_description(); kasan_find_vm_area(); find_vm_area(); spin_lock(&vn->busy.lock) // deadlock! To prevent possible deadlock while kasan reports, remove kasan_find_vm_area(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250703181018.580833-1-yeoreum.yun@arm.com Fixes: c056a364e954 ("kasan: print virtual mapping info in reports") Signed-off-by: Yeoreum Yun Reported-by: Yunseong Kim Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin Cc: Alexander Potapenko Cc: Andrey Konovalov Cc: Byungchul Park Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Vincenzo Frascino Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- mm/kasan/report.c | 13 ++----------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/kasan/report.c b/mm/kasan/report.c index c7c0083203cb..5675d6a412ef 100644 --- a/mm/kasan/report.c +++ b/mm/kasan/report.c @@ -398,17 +398,8 @@ static void print_address_description(void *addr, u8 tag, } if (is_vmalloc_addr(addr)) { - struct vm_struct *va = find_vm_area(addr); - - if (va) { - pr_err("The buggy address belongs to the virtual mapping at\n" - " [%px, %px) created by:\n" - " %pS\n", - va->addr, va->addr + va->size, va->caller); - pr_err("\n"); - - page = vmalloc_to_page(addr); - } + pr_err("The buggy address %px belongs to a vmalloc virtual mapping\n", addr); + page = vmalloc_to_page(addr); } if (page) {