WARNING&Oops in v6.6.37 on ppc64lea - Trying to vfree() bad address (00000000453be747)

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, Jul 09, 2024 at 03:02:13PM +0530, Naveen N Rao wrote:
> Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 08, 2024 at 11:16:48PM -0400, matoro wrote:
> > > On 2024-07-05 16:34, Vitaly Chikunov wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > > There is new WARNING and Oops on ppc64le in v6.6.37 when running
> > > LTP tests:
> > > > bpf_prog01, bpf_prog02, bpf_prog04, bpf_prog05, prctl04. Logs excerpt
> > > > below. I
> > > > see there is 1 commit in v6.6.36..v6.6.37 with call to
> > > > bpf_jit_binary_pack_finalize, backported from 5 patch mainline patchset:
> > > > >   f99feda5684a powerpc/bpf: use
> > > bpf_jit_binary_pack_[alloc|finalize|free]
> > > >
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > > > > And so on. Temporary build/test log is at
> > > > https://git.altlinux.org/tasks/352218/build/100/ppc64le/log
> > > > > Other stable/longterm branches or other architectures does not
> > > exhibit this.
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > > Hi all - this just took down a production server for me, on POWER9 bare
> > > metal.  Not running tests, just booting normally, before services even came
> > > up.  Had to perform manual restoration, reverting to 6.6.36 worked.  Also
> > > running 64k kernel, unsure if it's better on 4k kernel.
> > > 
> > > In case it's helpful, here's the log from my boot:
> > > https://dpaste.org/Gyxxg/raw
> > 
> > Ok, this isn't good, something went wrong with my backports here.  Let
> > me go revert them all and push out a new 6.6.y release right away.
> 
> I think the problem is that the series adding support for bpf prog_pack was
> partially backported. In particular, the below patches are missing from
> stable v6.6:
> 465cabc97b42 powerpc/code-patching: introduce patch_instructions()
> 033ffaf0af1f powerpc/bpf: implement bpf_arch_text_invalidate for bpf_prog_pack
> 6efc1675acb8 powerpc/bpf: implement bpf_arch_text_copy
> 
> It should be sufficient to revert commit f99feda5684a (powerpc/bpf: use
> bpf_jit_binary_pack_[alloc|finalize|free]) to allow the above to apply
> cleanly, followed by cherry picking commit 90d862f370b6 (powerpc/bpf: use
> bpf_jit_binary_pack_[alloc|finalize|free]) from upstream.
> 
> Alternately, commit f99feda5684a (powerpc/bpf: use
> bpf_jit_binary_pack_[alloc|finalize|free]) can be reverted.

I'm dropping them all now, if you want to submit a working series for
this, I'll be glad to queue them all up.

thanks,

greg k-h