[PATCH] powerpc/mm: Fix swapper_pg_dir size on 64-bit hash w/64K pages

Aneesh Kumar K.V aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Apr 13 12:42:18 AEST 2017



On Wednesday 12 April 2017 03:41 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Recently in commit f6eedbba7a26 ("powerpc/mm/hash: Increase VA range to 128TB"),
> we increased H_PGD_INDEX_SIZE to 15 when we're building with 64K pages. This
> makes it larger than RADIX_PGD_INDEX_SIZE (13), which means the logic to
> calculate MAX_PGD_INDEX_SIZE in book3s/64/pgtable.h is wrong.
>
> The end result is that the PGD (Page Global Directory, ie top level page table)
> of the kernel (aka. swapper_pg_dir), is too small.
>
> This generally doesn't lead to a crash, as we don't use the full range in normal
> operation. However if we try to dump the kernel pagetables we can trigger a
> crash because we walk off the end of the pgd into other memory and eventually
> try to dereference something bogus:
>
>   $ cat /sys/kernel/debug/kernel_pagetables
>   Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0xe8fece0000000000
>   Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000072314
>   cpu 0xc: Vector: 380 (Data SLB Access) at [c0000000daa13890]
>       pc: c000000000072314: ptdump_show+0x164/0x430
>       lr: c000000000072550: ptdump_show+0x3a0/0x430
>      dar: e802cf0000000000
>   seq_read+0xf8/0x560
>   full_proxy_read+0x84/0xc0
>   __vfs_read+0x6c/0x1d0
>   vfs_read+0xbc/0x1b0
>   SyS_read+0x6c/0x110
>   system_call+0x38/0xfc
>
> The root cause is that MAX_PGD_INDEX_SIZE isn't actually computed to be
> the max of H_PGD_INDEX_SIZE or RADIX_PGD_INDEX_SIZE. To fix that move
> the calculation into asm-offsets.c where we can do it easily using
> max().
>
> Fixes: f6eedbba7a26 ("powerpc/mm/hash: Increase VA range to 128TB")
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>

  Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>


> ---
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h | 4 ----
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c            | 4 ++--
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h
> index fb72ff6b98e6..fb8380a2d8d5 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h
> @@ -232,10 +232,6 @@ extern unsigned long __pte_frag_nr;
>  extern unsigned long __pte_frag_size_shift;
>  #define PTE_FRAG_SIZE_SHIFT __pte_frag_size_shift
>  #define PTE_FRAG_SIZE (1UL << PTE_FRAG_SIZE_SHIFT)
> -/*
> - * Pgtable size used by swapper, init in asm code
> - */
> -#define MAX_PGD_TABLE_SIZE (sizeof(pgd_t) << RADIX_PGD_INDEX_SIZE)
>
>  #define PTRS_PER_PTE	(1 << PTE_INDEX_SIZE)
>  #define PTRS_PER_PMD	(1 << PMD_INDEX_SIZE)
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c
> index e7c8229a8812..8e1163426ccb 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c
> @@ -400,8 +400,8 @@ int main(void)
>  	DEFINE(BUG_ENTRY_SIZE, sizeof(struct bug_entry));
>  #endif
>
> -#ifdef MAX_PGD_TABLE_SIZE
> -	DEFINE(PGD_TABLE_SIZE, MAX_PGD_TABLE_SIZE);
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64
> +	DEFINE(PGD_TABLE_SIZE, (sizeof(pgd_t) << max(RADIX_PGD_INDEX_SIZE, H_PGD_INDEX_SIZE)));
>  #else
>  	DEFINE(PGD_TABLE_SIZE, PGD_TABLE_SIZE);
>  #endif
>



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