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

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Tue Oct 12 17:24:53 AEDT 2021


Liu Shixin <liushixin2 at huawei.com> writes:
> kindly ping.

I was under the impression you were trying to debug why it wasn't
working with Christophe.

cheers

> 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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