[PATCH] powerpc: don't select KFENCE on platform PPC_FSL_BOOK3E

[LEROY Christophe]

Le 12/10/2021 à 03:43, Liu Shixin a écrit :
> kindly ping.

Hi

Based on the discussion we had, this patch is not enough. It should at 
least also de-activate DEBUG_PAGEALLOC,

However I'm looking at fixing it the other way round. Give me one week 
or two.

Christophe

> 
> 
> On 2021/9/24 14:39, Liu Shixin wrote:
>> On platform PPC_FSL_BOOK3E, all lowmem is managed by tlbcam. That means
>> we didn't really map the kfence pool with page granularity. Therefore,
>> if KFENCE is enabled, the system will hit the following panic:
>>
>>      BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x00000000
>>      Faulting instruction address: 0xc01de598
>>      Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
>>      BE PAGE_SIZE=4K SMP NR_CPUS=4 MPC8544 DS
>>      Dumping ftrace buffer:
>>         (ftrace buffer empty)
>>      Modules linked in:
>>      CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.12.0-rc3+ #298
>>      NIP:  c01de598 LR: c08ae9c4 CTR: 00000000
>>      REGS: c0b4bea0 TRAP: 0300   Not tainted  (5.12.0-rc3+)
>>      MSR:  00021000 <CE,ME>  CR: 24000228  XER: 20000000
>>      DEAR: 00000000 ESR: 00000000
>>      GPR00: c08ae9c4 c0b4bf60 c0ad64e0 ef720000 00021000 00000000 00000000 00000200
>>      GPR08: c0ad5000 00000000 00000000 00000004 00000000 008fbb30 00000000 00000000
>>      GPR16: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 c0000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
>>      GPR24: c08ca004 c08ca004 c0b6a0e0 c0b60000 c0b58f00 c0850000 c08ca000 ef720000
>>      NIP [c01de598] kfence_protect+0x44/0x6c
>>      LR [c08ae9c4] kfence_init+0xfc/0x2a4
>>      Call Trace:
>>      [c0b4bf60] [efffe160] 0xefffe160 (unreliable)
>>      [c0b4bf70] [c08ae9c4] kfence_init+0xfc/0x2a4
>>      [c0b4bfb0] [c0894d3c] start_kernel+0x3bc/0x574
>>      [c0b4bff0] [c0000470] set_ivor+0x14c/0x188
>>      Instruction dump:
>>      7c0802a6 8109d594 546a653a 90010014 54630026 39200000 7d48502e 2c0a0000
>>      41820010 554a0026 5469b53a 7d295214 <81490000> 38831000 554a003c 91490000
>>      random: get_random_bytes called from print_oops_end_marker+0x40/0x78 with crng_init=0
>>      ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Liu Shixin <liushixin2 at huawei.com>
>> ---
>>   arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 2 +-
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
>> index d46db0bfb998..cffd57bcb5e4 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
>> @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ config PPC
>>   	select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN			if PPC32 && PPC_PAGE_SHIFT <= 14
>>   	select HAVE_ARCH_KASAN_VMALLOC		if PPC32 && PPC_PAGE_SHIFT <= 14
>>   	select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB
>> -	select HAVE_ARCH_KFENCE			if PPC32
>> +	select HAVE_ARCH_KFENCE			if PPC32 && !PPC_FSL_BOOK3E
>>   	select HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
>>   	select HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS	if COMPAT
>>   	select HAVE_ARCH_NVRAM_OPS
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