[PATCH] powerpc: booke: fix boot crash due to null hugepd

Aneesh Kumar K.V aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Feb 17 23:18:30 AEDT 2017


laurentiu.tudor at nxp.com writes:

> From: Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor at nxp.com>
>
> On 32-bit book-e machines, hugepd_ok() does not take
> into account null hugepd values, causing this crash at boot:
>
> Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x80000000
> Faulting instruction address: 0xc00182a8
> Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
> SMP NR_CPUS=24
> CoreNet Generic
> Modules linked in:
> CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G        W       4.10.0-rc8-00016-g69b1f87 #11
> task: e5050000 task.stack: e5058000
> NIP: c00182a8 LR: c001829c CTR: 00007ffe
> REGS: e5059c50 TRAP: 0300   Tainted: G        W        (4.10.0-rc8-00016-g69b1f87)
> MSR: 00021002 <CE,ME>
>   CR: 88428e82  XER: 00000000
> DEAR: 80000000 ESR: 00000000
> GPR00: c0107510 e5059d00 e5050000 80000000 bffffff1 e5059d0c e5059d08 00002017
> GPR08: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 28428e82 00000000 c00027d0 00000000
> GPR16: 00000000 00000000 88a28e82 20000000 48422e82 00000000 88a28e84 dd004000
> GPR24: e5059e38 00000000 00000000 bffffff1 dd004000 00000001 00029002 bffffff1
> NIP [c00182a8] follow_huge_addr+0x38/0xf0
> LR [c001829c] follow_huge_addr+0x2c/0xf0
> Call Trace:
> [e5059d00] [e5059d00] 0xe5059d00 (unreliable)
> [e5059d20] [c0107510] follow_page_mask+0x40/0x3c0
> [e5059d80] [c0107958] __get_user_pages+0xc8/0x420
> [e5059de0] [c010817c] get_user_pages_remote+0x8c/0x230
> [e5059e30] [c013f170] copy_strings+0x110/0x3a0
> [e5059ea0] [c013f42c] copy_strings_kernel+0x2c/0x50
> [e5059ec0] [c0141324] do_execveat_common+0x474/0x620
> [e5059f10] [c01414fc] do_execve+0x2c/0x40
> [e5059f20] [c0001f68] try_to_run_init_process+0x18/0x60
> [e5059f30] [c000289c] kernel_init+0xcc/0x120
> [e5059f40] [c000f1e8] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64
> Instruction dump:
> bfc10018 7c9f2378 90010024 7fc000a6 7c000146 80630020 38a1000c 38c10008
> 4bfff869 2c030000 41c20090 81210008 <81430000> 81630004 3860ffea 2f890000
> ---[ end trace 4bf94e15fd9fa824 ]---


Which code path is that. That null should be filtered by the if
(pmd_none(pmd)) check in find_linux_pte_or_hugepte right ?

>
> This impacts all nxp (ex-freescale) 32-bit booke platforms.
>
> Fixes: 20717e1ff526 ("powerpc/mm: Fix little-endian 4K hugetlb")
>
> Reported-by: Madalin-Cristian Bucur <madalin.bucur at nxp.com>
> Signed-off-by: Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor at nxp.com>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/nohash/pgtable.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/nohash/pgtable.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/nohash/pgtable.h
> index 0cd8a38..e5805ad 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/nohash/pgtable.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/nohash/pgtable.h
> @@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ static inline int hugepd_ok(hugepd_t hpd)
>  	return ((hpd_val(hpd) & 0x4) != 0);
>  #else
>  	/* We clear the top bit to indicate hugepd */
> -	return ((hpd_val(hpd) & PD_HUGE) ==  0);
> +	return (hpd_val(hpd) && (hpd_val(hpd) & PD_HUGE) == 0);
>  #endif
>  }
>
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1



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