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mm/vmalloc: Warn on improper use of vunmap_range()
authorRyan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Tue, 22 Apr 2025 08:18:15 +0000 (09:18 +0100)
committerWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Fri, 9 May 2025 12:43:07 +0000 (13:43 +0100)
commit61ef8ddaa35e341508d8fa891c33029ed5f75779
treed1611c186ad51da1e0ca3c279077765f2527d08c
parentf89b399e8d6e9fdef92b15164c2737ac8ef5831a
mm/vmalloc: Warn on improper use of vunmap_range()

A call to vmalloc_huge() may cause memory blocks to be mapped at pmd or
pud level. But it is possible to subsequently call vunmap_range() on a
sub-range of the mapped memory, which partially overlaps a pmd or pud.
In this case, vmalloc unmaps the entire pmd or pud so that the
no-overlapping portion is also unmapped. Clearly that would have a bad
outcome, but it's not something that any callers do today as far as I
can tell. So I guess it's just expected that callers will not do this.

However, it would be useful to know if this happened in future; let's
add a warning to cover the eventuality.

Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Tested-by: Luiz Capitulino <luizcap@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250422081822.1836315-8-ryan.roberts@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
mm/vmalloc.c