[RFC PATCH v1] powerpc: Enable KFENCE for PPC32

Marco Elver elver at google.com
Tue Mar 2 19:58:19 AEDT 2021


On Tue, 2 Mar 2021 at 09:37, Christophe Leroy
<christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu> wrote:
> Add architecture specific implementation details for KFENCE and enable
> KFENCE for the ppc32 architecture. In particular, this implements the
> required interface in <asm/kfence.h>.

Nice!

> KFENCE requires that attributes for pages from its memory pool can
> individually be set. Therefore, force the Read/Write linear map to be
> mapped at page granularity.
>
> Unit tests succeed on all tests but one:
>
>         [   15.053324]     # test_invalid_access: EXPECTATION FAILED at mm/kfence/kfence_test.c:636
>         [   15.053324]     Expected report_matches(&expect) to be true, but is false
>         [   15.068359]     not ok 21 - test_invalid_access

This is strange, given all the other tests passed. Do you mind sharing
the full test log?

Thanks,
-- Marco


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