[PATCH v4 02/13] powerpc/rtas: Fall back to linear search on failed token->function lookup

Nathan Lynch via B4 Relay devnull+nathanl.linux.ibm.com at kernel.org
Sat Nov 18 16:14:20 AEDT 2023


From: Nathan Lynch <nathanl at linux.ibm.com>

Enabling any of the powerpc:rtas_* tracepoints at boot is likely to
result in an oops on RTAS platforms. For example, booting a QEMU
pseries model with 'trace_event=powerpc:rtas_input' in the command
line leads to:

  BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x00000008
  Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 7 [#1]
  NIP [c00000000004231c] do_enter_rtas+0x1bc/0x460
  LR [c00000000004231c] do_enter_rtas+0x1bc/0x460
  Call Trace:
    do_enter_rtas+0x1bc/0x460 (unreliable)
    rtas_call+0x22c/0x4a0
    rtas_get_boot_time+0x80/0x14c
    read_persistent_clock64+0x124/0x150
    read_persistent_wall_and_boot_offset+0x28/0x58
    timekeeping_init+0x70/0x348
    start_kernel+0xa0c/0xc1c
    start_here_common+0x1c/0x20

(This is preceded by a warning for the failed lookup in
rtas_token_to_function().)

This happens when __do_enter_rtas_trace() attempts a token to function
descriptor lookup before the xarray containing the mappings has been
set up.

Fall back to linear scan of the table if rtas_token_to_function_xarray
is empty.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <nathanl at linux.ibm.com>
Fixes: 24098f580e2b ("powerpc/rtas: add tracepoints around RTAS entry")
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c | 18 ++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c
index 1ad1869e2e96..f0051881348a 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c
@@ -557,11 +557,21 @@ static const struct rtas_function *rtas_token_to_function(s32 token)
 		return NULL;
 
 	func = xa_load(&rtas_token_to_function_xarray, token);
+	if (func)
+		return func;
+	/*
+	 * Fall back to linear scan in case the reverse mapping hasn't
+	 * been initialized yet.
+	 */
+	if (xa_empty(&rtas_token_to_function_xarray)) {
+		for_each_rtas_function(func) {
+			if (func->token == token)
+				return func;
+		}
+	}
 
-	if (WARN_ONCE(!func, "unexpected failed lookup for token %d", token))
-		return NULL;
-
-	return func;
+	WARN_ONCE(true, "unexpected failed lookup for token %d", token);
+	return NULL;
 }
 
 /* This is here deliberately so it's only used in this file */

-- 
2.41.0



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