Re: [PATCH v6 11/18] x86/kasan: KASAN raw shadow memory PTE init

On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 9:07 PM Maciej Wieczor-Retman
[off-list ref] wrote:

From: Maciej Wieczor-Retman <redacted>

In KASAN's generic mode the default value in shadow memory is zero.
During initialization of shadow memory pages they are allocated and
zeroed.

In KASAN's tag-based mode the default tag for the arm64 architecture is
0xFE which corresponds to any memory that should not be accessed. On x86
(where tags are 4-bit wide instead of 8-bit wide) that tag is 0xE so
during the initializations all the bytes in shadow memory pages should
be filled with it.

Use memblock_alloc_try_nid_raw() instead of memblock_alloc_try_nid() to
avoid zeroing out the memory so it can be set with the KASAN invalid
tag.

Signed-off-by: Maciej Wieczor-Retman <redacted>

Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>