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During system shutdown, KFENCE can cause IPI synchronization issues if it
remains active through the reboot process. To prevent this, register a
reboot notifier that disables KFENCE and cancels any pending timer work
early in the shutdown sequence.
This is only necessary when CONFIG_KFENCE_STATIC_KEYS is enabled, as this
configuration sends IPIs that can interfere with shutdown. Without static
keys, no IPIs are generated and KFENCE can safely remain active.
The notifier uses maximum priority (INT_MAX) to ensure KFENCE shuts down
before other subsystems that might still depend on stable memory
allocation behavior.
This fixes a late kexec CSD lockup[1] when kfence is trying to IPI a CPU
that is busy in a IRQ-disabled context printing characters to the console.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251127-kfence-v2-1-daeccb5ef9aa@debian.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251126-kfence-v1-1-5a6e1d7c681c@debian.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/sqwajvt7utnt463tzxgwu2yctyn5m6bjwrslsnupfexeml6hkd@v6sqmpbu3vvu/ [1]
Fixes: 0ce20dd840 ("mm: add Kernel Electric-Fence infrastructure")
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.