Unfortunately I did not see this problem before I encountered it in
master. Commit 3293efa9780712ad8504689e0c296d2bd33827d5
sparc/mm/highmem: Switch to generic kmap atomic
No reason having the same code in every architecture
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201103095858.197568209@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
prevents the init process to be started for me on a sparc32 LEON. On the
commit before this it works. Details below from that commit but I get
the same behavior on current master.
From as far as I have gotten into hunting down the problem, I get a
failure from load_elf_binary here:
/* First of all, some simple consistency checks */
if (memcmp(elf_ex->e_ident, ELFMAG, SELFMAG) != 0)
goto out;
at least seemingly due to the kaddr from copy_page_to_iter in
lib/iov_iter.c
if (i->type & (ITER_BVEC|ITER_KVEC)) {
void *kaddr = kmap_atomic(page);
size_t wanted = copy_to_iter(kaddr + offset, bytes, i);
where kaddr points to memory with all zeroes (from an earlier bzero) in
this context:
#0 _copy_to_iter (addr=0xfcffe000, bytes=0x100, i=0xf201fd78)
at lib/iov_iter.c:635
#1 copy_to_iter (i=0xf201fd78, bytes=0x1ce, addr=0xfcffe000)
at include/linux/uio.h:137
#2 copy_page_to_iter (page=0xf137ede0, offset=0x0, bytes=0x1ce,
i=0xf201fd78)
at lib/iov_iter.c:920
#3 shmem_file_read_iter (iocb=0xf201fd90, to=0xf201fd78)
at mm/shmem.c:2661
#4 __kernel_read (file=0xf2103900, buf=0xf241365c, count=0x100,
pos=0xf201fe80)
at fs/read_write.c:454
#5 kernel_read (file=0xf2103900, buf=0xf241365c, count=0x100,
pos=0xf201fe80)
at fs/read_write.c:472
#6 prepare_binprm (bprm=0xf2413600)
at fs/exec.c:1633
#7 search_binary_handler (bprm=0xf2413600)
at fs/exec.c:1687
#8 exec_binprm (bprm=0xf2413600)
at fs/exec.c:1744
#9 bprm_execve (bprm=0xf2413600, fd=<opt>, filename=<opt>, flags=<opt>)
at fs/exec.c:1820
#10 kernel_execve (kernel_filename=<opt>,
argv=0xf050d4f0 <argv_init>,
envp=0xf050d468 <envp_init>)
at fs/exec.c:1969
#11 kernel_init (unused=0x0)
at init/main.c:1427
I will have to continue to dig deeper into this in January. If anyone
has any ideas how this could stem from this kmap patch, I am all ears.
--
Andreas Larsson
Software Engineer
Cobham Gaisler
