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memblock: introduce saner 'memblock_free_ptr()' interface
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/[email protected]/ 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 <[email protected]> Fixes: 40caa12 ("init: bootconfig: Remove all bootconfig data when the init memory is removed") Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Rapoport <[email protected]> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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