Page tables are always accessed via the linear mapping with a match-all tag, so HW-tag KASAN never checks them. For page-allocated tables (PTEs and PGDs etc), avoid the tag setup and poisoning overhead by using __GFP_SKIP_KASAN. SLUB-backed page tables are unchanged for now. (They aren't widely used and require more SLUB related skip logic. Leave it later.) Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts Signed-off-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum --- Changes since v1: - Update description to mention SLUB-backed page tables are unchanged --- include/asm-generic/pgalloc.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/asm-generic/pgalloc.h b/include/asm-generic/pgalloc.h index 57137d3ac1592..051aa1331051c 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/pgalloc.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/pgalloc.h @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ #ifdef CONFIG_MMU -#define GFP_PGTABLE_KERNEL (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO) +#define GFP_PGTABLE_KERNEL (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_SKIP_KASAN) #define GFP_PGTABLE_USER (GFP_PGTABLE_KERNEL | __GFP_ACCOUNT) /** -- 2.47.3