[PATCH v3 0/5] of: reserved_mem: several fixes about reserved memory

From: Wandun Chen

Date: Sun Sep 20 2026 - 05:40:18 EST


From: Wandun Chen <chenwandun@xxxxxxxxxxx>

This series fixes several error-handling issues in the reserved-memory
initialization paths.

The first two patches fix cleanup of no-map regions after driver
initialization failure.

Static reserved-memory nodes are reserved during the early DT scan but
initialized later. The third patch tags regions whose early reservation
succeeded, so the late scan can skip the nodes whose early reservation
failed.

The last two patches reject overlapping static regions. Without
these checks, overlapping nodes can be initialized over the same
physical memory, result in data corrupt.

Sashiko reported these issues in [1] [2] [3].

[1] https://sashiko.dev/#/message/20260814090305.4C8741F00A3D%40smtp.kernel.org
[2] https://sashiko.dev/#/message/20260814084718.29C341F000E9%40smtp.kernel.org
[3] https://sashiko.dev/#/message/20260806100605.2C2C01F000E9%40smtp.kernel.org

v2 --> v3:
1. Rework the mechanism that checks in the late scan whether the early
reservation succeeded (patches 3-5, suggested by Marek, thanks).

Patch 3 adds a new memblock flag MEMBLOCK_RSRV_RMEM, which is set when
the early reservation of a static region succeeds and checked in the
late scan.

Patches 4 and 5 are reworked to reject regions that overlap or are
contained by an existing reservation. The code makes a little different
from what was acked in v2, so the Acked-by tags for these patches are not
carried over.

2. Reorder the patches: the two cleanup fixes in v2 now come first.
In v3, the first patch now introduces the 'dynamic' distinction in
fdt_init_reserved_mem_node(), which the following patche 3 build on,
so the series reads more fluently.

v1 --> v2:
1. Rework failed-node tracking in patch 1: do not track zero-sized nodes,
and keep a reserved_mem slot when tracking overflows.
2. Reject static reserved regions overlapping existing no-map regions.
3. Keep MEMBLOCK_NOMAP flag for static no-map regions when init failure.


Wandun Chen (5):
of: reserved_mem: release dynamically allocated no-map region on init
failure
of: reserved_mem: retain static no-map memory on init failure
of: reserved_mem: skip init for regions whose early reservation failed
of: reserved_mem: reject static regions overlapping no-map memory
of: reserved_mem: reject static mapped regions overlapping existing
reservations

drivers/of/of_reserved_mem.c | 86 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
include/linux/memblock.h | 7 +++
mm/memblock.c | 95 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 170 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

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