[PATCH v4 2/9] kasan/powerpc: select ARCH_DEFER_KASAN and call kasan_init_generic

Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov snovitoll at gmail.com
Wed Aug 6 00:26:15 AEST 2025


PowerPC with radix MMU is the primary architecture that needs deferred
KASAN initialization, as it requires complex shadow memory setup before
KASAN can be safely enabled.

Select ARCH_DEFER_KASAN for PPC_RADIX_MMU to enable the static key
mechanism for runtime KASAN control. Other PowerPC configurations
(like book3e and 32-bit) can enable KASAN early and will use
compile-time constants instead.

Remove the PowerPC-specific static key and kasan_arch_is_ready()
implementation in favor of the unified interface.

Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217049
Fixes: 55d77bae7342 ("kasan: fix Oops due to missing calls to kasan_arch_is_ready()")
Signed-off-by: Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov <snovitoll at gmail.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/Kconfig                   |  1 +
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/kasan.h       | 12 ------------
 arch/powerpc/mm/kasan/init_32.c        |  2 +-
 arch/powerpc/mm/kasan/init_book3e_64.c |  2 +-
 arch/powerpc/mm/kasan/init_book3s_64.c |  6 +-----
 5 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index 93402a1d9c9..11c8ef2d88e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ config PPC
 	# Please keep this list sorted alphabetically.
 	#
 	select ARCH_32BIT_OFF_T if PPC32
+	select ARCH_DEFER_KASAN			if PPC_RADIX_MMU
 	select ARCH_DISABLE_KASAN_INLINE	if PPC_RADIX_MMU
 	select ARCH_DMA_DEFAULT_COHERENT	if !NOT_COHERENT_CACHE
 	select ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kasan.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kasan.h
index b5bbb94c51f..957a57c1db5 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kasan.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kasan.h
@@ -53,18 +53,6 @@
 #endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_KASAN
-#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64
-DECLARE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(powerpc_kasan_enabled_key);
-
-static __always_inline bool kasan_arch_is_ready(void)
-{
-	if (static_branch_likely(&powerpc_kasan_enabled_key))
-		return true;
-	return false;
-}
-
-#define kasan_arch_is_ready kasan_arch_is_ready
-#endif
 
 void kasan_early_init(void);
 void kasan_mmu_init(void);
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/kasan/init_32.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/kasan/init_32.c
index 03666d790a5..1d083597464 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/kasan/init_32.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/kasan/init_32.c
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ void __init kasan_init(void)
 
 	/* At this point kasan is fully initialized. Enable error messages */
 	init_task.kasan_depth = 0;
-	pr_info("KASAN init done\n");
+	kasan_init_generic();
 }
 
 void __init kasan_late_init(void)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/kasan/init_book3e_64.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/kasan/init_book3e_64.c
index 60c78aac0f6..0d3a73d6d4b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/kasan/init_book3e_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/kasan/init_book3e_64.c
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ void __init kasan_init(void)
 
 	/* Enable error messages */
 	init_task.kasan_depth = 0;
-	pr_info("KASAN init done\n");
+	kasan_init_generic();
 }
 
 void __init kasan_late_init(void) { }
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/kasan/init_book3s_64.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/kasan/init_book3s_64.c
index 7d959544c07..dcafa641804 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/kasan/init_book3s_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/kasan/init_book3s_64.c
@@ -19,8 +19,6 @@
 #include <linux/memblock.h>
 #include <asm/pgalloc.h>
 
-DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(powerpc_kasan_enabled_key);
-
 static void __init kasan_init_phys_region(void *start, void *end)
 {
 	unsigned long k_start, k_end, k_cur;
@@ -92,11 +90,9 @@ void __init kasan_init(void)
 	 */
 	memset(kasan_early_shadow_page, 0, PAGE_SIZE);
 
-	static_branch_inc(&powerpc_kasan_enabled_key);
-
 	/* Enable error messages */
 	init_task.kasan_depth = 0;
-	pr_info("KASAN init done\n");
+	kasan_init_generic();
 }
 
 void __init kasan_early_init(void) { }
-- 
2.34.1



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