Thread (9 messages) 9 messages, 5 authors, 2025-07-07
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[PATCH] arm64: efi: Fix KASAN false positive for EFI runtime stack

From: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Date: 2025-06-24 12:56:09
Also in: linux-efi, lkml
Subsystem: arm64 port (aarch64 architecture), extensible firmware interface (efi), the rest · Maintainers: Catalin Marinas, Will Deacon, Ard Biesheuvel, Linus Torvalds

KASAN reports invalid accesses during arch_stack_walk() for EFI runtime
services due to vmalloc tagging[1]. The EFI runtime stack must be allocated
with KASAN tags reset to avoid false positives.

This patch uses arch_alloc_vmap_stack() instead of __vmalloc_node() for
EFI stack allocation, which internally calls kasan_reset_tag()

The changes ensure EFI runtime stacks are properly sanitized for KASAN
while maintaining functional consistency.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aFVVEgD0236LdrL6@gmail.com/ (local) [1]
Suggested-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/efi.c | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/efi.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/efi.c
index 3857fd7ee8d46..d2af881a48290 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/efi.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/efi.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 
 #include <asm/efi.h>
 #include <asm/stacktrace.h>
+#include <asm/vmap_stack.h>
 
 static bool region_is_misaligned(const efi_memory_desc_t *md)
 {
@@ -214,9 +215,11 @@ static int __init arm64_efi_rt_init(void)
 	if (!efi_enabled(EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES))
 		return 0;
 
-	p = __vmalloc_node(THREAD_SIZE, THREAD_ALIGN, GFP_KERNEL,
-			   NUMA_NO_NODE, &&l);
-l:	if (!p) {
+	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_VMAP_STACK))
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	p = arch_alloc_vmap_stack(THREAD_SIZE, NUMA_NO_NODE);
+	if (!p) {
 		pr_warn("Failed to allocate EFI runtime stack\n");
 		clear_bit(EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES, &efi.flags);
 		return -ENOMEM;
---
base-commit: a3e9ee4ad433efad9c172d5fcf63ff39b61c902f
change-id: 20250623-arm_kasan-3b1d120ec20f

Best regards,
--  
Breno Leitao [off-list ref]

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