Subject: Re: PowerPC: Random memory corruption causing kernel oops on Power11

From: David Laight <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 May 2026 17:18:55 +0100

On Fri, 29 May 2026 19:07:22 +0530
Venkat Rao Bagalkote <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On 29/05/26 12:20 pm, Venkat Rao Bagalkote wrote:
> > Greetings!!!
> >
> > Kernel 7.1.0-rc5-next-20260528 crashes randomly on IBM Power11 
> > hardware. Attached is the config file.
> >
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> 
> Git bisect is pointing to 54067bacb49c selinux: hooks: use __getname() 
> to allocate path buffer as the first bad commit.
> 
> 
> # git bisect good
> 54067bacb49caeada82b20b6bd706dca0cb99ffc is the first bad commit
> commit 54067bacb49caeada82b20b6bd706dca0cb99ffc
> Author: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <[email-masked]>
> Date:   Wed May 20 11:18:56 2026 +0300
> 
>      selinux: hooks: use __getname() to allocate path buffer
> 
>      selinux_genfs_get_sid() allocates memory for a path with 
> __get_free_page()
>      although there is a dedicated helper for allocation of file paths:
>      __getname().
> 
>      Replace __get_free_page() for allocation of a path buffer with 
> __getname().
> 
>      Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <[email-masked]>
>      Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <[email-masked]>
> 
>   security/selinux/hooks.c | 4 ++--
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

__getname() is kmalloc(PATH_MAX) aka kmalloc(4096).

The old code was:
	buffer = (char *)__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL);
	if (!buffer)
		return -ENOMEM;

	path = dentry_path_raw(dentry, buffer, PAGE_SIZE);
only the allocate was changed.

PAGE_SIZE is not the length of the buffer.
Should be PATH_MAX.

-- David