Hi Suren

On 2026/11/12 06:10, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2026 at 11:24 AM Hao Ge <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> kmsan_vmap_pages_range_noflush() returns 0 when kmsan_enabled is
>> false.  The unmap side does not, so it still walks the shadow and
>> origin page tables even though KMSAN never installed any metadata
>> there.
> 
> Note that KMSAN_WARN_ON() can reset kmsan_enabled flag, so the fact
> that it's false does not mean that metadata was never installed. I
> think a proper bailout should depend on CONFIG_KMSAN, not on
> kmsan_enabled.

Sorry, I did not realize this logic.

I will go through the code again and will probably drop
this patch in the next version.

Thanks
Best Regards
Hao

> 
>>
>> Add the matching early return.
>>
>> Reported-by: Sashiko <[email protected]>
>> Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <[email protected]>
>> Signed-off-by: Hao Ge <[email protected]>
>> ---
>>  mm/kmsan/hooks.c | 3 +++
>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/kmsan/hooks.c b/mm/kmsan/hooks.c
>> index a706666db097..107f66841274 100644
>> --- a/mm/kmsan/hooks.c
>> +++ b/mm/kmsan/hooks.c
>> @@ -138,6 +138,9 @@ static unsigned long vmalloc_origin(unsigned long addr)
>>
>>  void kmsan_vunmap_range_noflush(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
>>  {
>> +       if (!kmsan_enabled)
>> +               return;
>> +
>>         __vunmap_range_noflush(vmalloc_shadow(start), vmalloc_shadow(end));
>>         __vunmap_range_noflush(vmalloc_origin(start), vmalloc_origin(end));
>>         flush_cache_vmap(vmalloc_shadow(start), vmalloc_shadow(end));
>> --
>> 2.25.1
>>

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