[PATCH] powerpc/pseries: Fix plpks crash on non-pseries
Nathan Chancellor
nathan at kernel.org
Thu Sep 8 01:37:09 AEST 2022
On Wed, Sep 07, 2022 at 04:50:38PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> As reported[1] by Nathan, the recently added plpks driver will crash if
> it's built into the kernel and booted on a non-pseries machine, eg
> powernv:
>
> kernel BUG at arch/powerpc/kernel/syscall.c:39!
> Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1]
> LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Radix SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA PowerNV
> ...
> NIP system_call_exception+0x90/0x3d0
> LR system_call_common+0xec/0x250
> Call Trace:
> 0xc0000000035c3e10 (unreliable)
> system_call_common+0xec/0x250
> --- interrupt: c00 at plpar_hcall+0x38/0x60
> NIP: c0000000000e4300 LR: c00000000202945c CTR: 0000000000000000
> REGS: c0000000035c3e80 TRAP: 0c00 Not tainted (6.0.0-rc4)
> MSR: 9000000002009033 <SF,HV,VEC,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE> CR: 28000284 XER: 00000000
> ...
> NIP plpar_hcall+0x38/0x60
> LR pseries_plpks_init+0x64/0x23c
> --- interrupt: c00
>
> On powernv Linux is the hypervisor, so a hypercall just ends up going to
> the syscall path, which BUGs if the syscall (hypercall) didn't come from
> userspace.
>
> The fix is simply to not probe the plpks driver on non-pseries machines.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/Yxe06fbq18Wv9y3W@dev-arch.thelio-3990X/
>
> Fixes: 2454a7af0f2a ("powerpc/pseries: define driver for Platform KeyStore")
> Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan at kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan at kernel.org>
Thanks!
> ---
> arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/plpks.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/plpks.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/plpks.c
> index 52aaa2894606..f4b5b5a64db3 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/plpks.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/plpks.c
> @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
> #include <linux/string.h>
> #include <linux/types.h>
> #include <asm/hvcall.h>
> +#include <asm/machdep.h>
>
> #include "plpks.h"
>
> @@ -457,4 +458,4 @@ static __init int pseries_plpks_init(void)
>
> return rc;
> }
> -arch_initcall(pseries_plpks_init);
> +machine_arch_initcall(pseries, pseries_plpks_init);
> --
> 2.37.2
>
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