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The boot-time allocation interface for memblock is a mess, with
'memblock_alloc()' returning a virtual pointer, but then you are
supposed to free it with 'memblock_free()' that takes a _physical_
address.
Not only is that all kinds of strange and illogical, but it actually
causes bugs, when people then use it like a normal allocation function,
and it fails spectacularly on a NULL pointer:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210912140820.GD25450@xsang-OptiPlex-9020/
or just random memory corruption if the debug checks don't catch it:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/61ab2d0c-3313-aaab-514c-e15b7aa054a0@suse.cz/
I really don't want to apply patches that treat the symptoms, when the
fundamental cause is this horribly confusing interface.
I started out looking at just automating a sane replacement sequence,
but because of this mix or virtual and physical addresses, and because
people have used the "__pa()" macro that can take either a regular
kernel pointer, or just the raw "unsigned long" address, it's all quite
messy.
So this just introduces a new saner interface for freeing a virtual
address that was allocated using 'memblock_alloc()', and that was kept
as a regular kernel pointer. And then it converts a couple of users
that are obvious and easy to test, including the 'xbc_nodes' case in
lib/bootconfig.c that caused problems.
Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Fixes:
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| boot | ||
| configs | ||
| crypto | ||
| entry | ||
| events | ||
| hyperv | ||
| ia32 | ||
| include | ||
| kernel | ||
| kvm | ||
| lib | ||
| math-emu | ||
| mm | ||
| net | ||
| pci | ||
| platform | ||
| power | ||
| purgatory | ||
| ras | ||
| realmode | ||
| tools | ||
| um | ||
| video | ||
| xen | ||
| .gitignore | ||
| Kbuild | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| Kconfig.assembler | ||
| Kconfig.cpu | ||
| Kconfig.debug | ||
| Makefile | ||
| Makefile.um | ||
| Makefile_32.cpu | ||