[RFC PATCH v1] powerpc: Enable KFENCE for PPC32

Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu
Tue Mar 2 20:27:35 AEDT 2021



Le 02/03/2021 à 10:21, Alexander Potapenko a écrit :
>> [   14.998426] BUG: KFENCE: invalid read in finish_task_switch.isra.0+0x54/0x23c
>> [   14.998426]
>> [   15.007061] Invalid read at 0x(ptrval):
>> [   15.010906]  finish_task_switch.isra.0+0x54/0x23c
>> [   15.015633]  kunit_try_run_case+0x5c/0xd0
>> [   15.019682]  kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x24/0x30
>> [   15.025099]  kthread+0x15c/0x174
>> [   15.028359]  ret_from_kernel_thread+0x14/0x1c
>> [   15.032747]
>> [   15.034251] CPU: 0 PID: 111 Comm: kunit_try_catch Tainted: G    B
>> 5.12.0-rc1-s3k-dev-01534-g4f14ae75edf0-dirty #4674
>> [   15.045811] ==================================================================
>> [   15.053324]     # test_invalid_access: EXPECTATION FAILED at mm/kfence/kfence_test.c:636
>> [   15.053324]     Expected report_matches(&expect) to be true, but is false
>> [   15.068359]     not ok 21 - test_invalid_access
> 
> The test expects the function name to be test_invalid_access, i. e.
> the first line should be "BUG: KFENCE: invalid read in
> test_invalid_access".
> The error reporting function unwinds the stack, skips a couple of
> "uninteresting" frames
> (https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.12-rc1/source/mm/kfence/report.c#L43)
> and uses the first "interesting" one frame to print the report header
> (https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.12-rc1/source/mm/kfence/report.c#L226).
> 
> It's strange that test_invalid_access is missing altogether from the
> stack trace - is that expected?
> Can you try printing the whole stacktrace without skipping any frames
> to see if that function is there?
> 

Booting with 'no_hash_pointers" I get the following. Does it helps ?

[   16.837198] ==================================================================
[   16.848521] BUG: KFENCE: invalid read in finish_task_switch.isra.0+0x54/0x23c
[   16.848521]
[   16.857158] Invalid read at 0xdf98800a:
[   16.861004]  finish_task_switch.isra.0+0x54/0x23c
[   16.865731]  kunit_try_run_case+0x5c/0xd0
[   16.869780]  kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x24/0x30
[   16.875199]  kthread+0x15c/0x174
[   16.878460]  ret_from_kernel_thread+0x14/0x1c
[   16.882847]
[   16.884351] CPU: 0 PID: 111 Comm: kunit_try_catch Tainted: G    B 
5.12.0-rc1-s3k-dev-01534-g4f14ae75edf0-dirty #4674
[   16.895908] NIP:  c016eb8c LR: c02f50dc CTR: c016eb38
[   16.900963] REGS: e2449d90 TRAP: 0301   Tainted: G    B 
(5.12.0-rc1-s3k-dev-01534-g4f14ae75edf0-dirty)
[   16.911386] MSR:  00009032 <EE,ME,IR,DR,RI>  CR: 22000004  XER: 00000000
[   16.918153] DAR: df98800a DSISR: 20000000
[   16.918153] GPR00: c02f50dc e2449e50 c1140d00 e100dd24 c084b13c 00000008 c084b32b c016eb38
[   16.918153] GPR08: c0850000 df988000 c0d10000 e2449eb0 22000288
[   16.936695] NIP [c016eb8c] test_invalid_access+0x54/0x108
[   16.942125] LR [c02f50dc] kunit_try_run_case+0x5c/0xd0
[   16.947292] Call Trace:
[   16.949746] [e2449e50] [c005a5ec] finish_task_switch.isra.0+0x54/0x23c (unreliable)
[   16.957443] [e2449eb0] [c02f50dc] kunit_try_run_case+0x5c/0xd0
[   16.963319] [e2449ed0] [c02f63ec] kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x24/0x30
[   16.970574] [e2449ef0] [c004e710] kthread+0x15c/0x174
[   16.975670] [e2449f30] [c001317c] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x14/0x1c
[   16.981896] Instruction dump:
[   16.984879] 8129d608 38e7eb38 81020280 911f004c 39000000 995f0024 907f0028 90ff001c
[   16.992710] 3949000a 915f0020 3d40c0d1 3d00c085 <8929000a> 3908adb0 812a4b98 3d40c02f
[   17.000711] ==================================================================
[   17.008223]     # test_invalid_access: EXPECTATION FAILED at mm/kfence/kfence_test.c:636
[   17.008223]     Expected report_matches(&expect) to be true, but is false
[   17.023243]     not ok 21 - test_invalid_access


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