From: Sai Praneeth <sai.praneeth.prakhya@xxxxxxxxx> When CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL is turned on, all accesses to __pa(address) are monitored to see whether address falls in direct mapping or kernel mapping, if it does not kernel panics. During 1:1 mapping of EFI runtime services we access addresses which are below 4G and hence when passed as arguments to __pa() kernel panics as reported by Dave Hansen here https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/27/742. So, before calling __pa() virtual addresses should be validated which results in skipping call to split_page_count() and that should be fine because it is used to keep track of direct kernel mappings and not 1:1 mappings. Signed-off-by: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@xxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Glenn P Williamson <glenn.p.williamson@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ravi Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@xxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c index 727158cb3b3c..3a603830503a 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c @@ -648,9 +648,11 @@ __split_large_page(struct cpa_data *cpa, pte_t *kpte, unsigned long address, for (i = 0; i < PTRS_PER_PTE; i++, pfn += pfninc) set_pte(&pbase[i], pfn_pte(pfn, canon_pgprot(ref_prot))); - if (pfn_range_is_mapped(PFN_DOWN(__pa(address)), - PFN_DOWN(__pa(address)) + 1)) - split_page_count(level); + if (virt_addr_valid(address)) { + if (pfn_range_is_mapped(PFN_DOWN(__pa(address)), + PFN_DOWN(__pa(address)) + 1)) + split_page_count(level); + } /* * Install the new, split up pagetable. -- 2.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html