This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
powerpc/rtas: avoid scheduling in rtas_os_term()
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
powerpc-rtas-avoid-scheduling-in-rtas_os_term.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 7753af93ba5f27944b67463e271e5b8968ea065d
Author: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Nov 18 09:07:42 2022 -0600
powerpc/rtas: avoid scheduling in rtas_os_term()
[ Upstream commit 6c606e57eecc37d6b36d732b1ff7e55b7dc32dd4 ]
It's unsafe to use rtas_busy_delay() to handle a busy status from
the ibm,os-term RTAS function in rtas_os_term():
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c:618
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 1, name: swapper/0
preempt_count: 2, expected: 0
CPU: 7 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G D 6.0.0-rc5-02182-gf8553a572277-dirty #9
Call Trace:
[c000000007b8f000] [c000000001337110] dump_stack_lvl+0xb4/0x110 (unreliable)
[c000000007b8f040] [c0000000002440e4] __might_resched+0x394/0x3c0
[c000000007b8f0e0] [c00000000004f680] rtas_busy_delay+0x120/0x1b0
[c000000007b8f100] [c000000000052d04] rtas_os_term+0xb8/0xf4
[c000000007b8f180] [c0000000001150fc] pseries_panic+0x50/0x68
[c000000007b8f1f0] [c000000000036354] ppc_panic_platform_handler+0x34/0x50
[c000000007b8f210] [c0000000002303c4] notifier_call_chain+0xd4/0x1c0
[c000000007b8f2b0] [c0000000002306cc] atomic_notifier_call_chain+0xac/0x1c0
[c000000007b8f2f0] [c0000000001d62b8] panic+0x228/0x4d0
[c000000007b8f390] [c0000000001e573c] do_exit+0x140c/0x1420
[c000000007b8f480] [c0000000001e586c] make_task_dead+0xdc/0x200
Use rtas_busy_delay_time() instead, which signals without side effects
whether to attempt the ibm,os-term RTAS call again.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221118150751.469393-5-nathanl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c
index 641f3e4c3380..9a77778bd24a 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas.c
@@ -733,10 +733,15 @@ void rtas_os_term(char *str)
snprintf(rtas_os_term_buf, 2048, "OS panic: %s", str);
+ /*
+ * Keep calling as long as RTAS returns a "try again" status,
+ * but don't use rtas_busy_delay(), which potentially
+ * schedules.
+ */
do {
status = rtas_call(rtas_token("ibm,os-term"), 1, 1, NULL,
__pa(rtas_os_term_buf));
- } while (rtas_busy_delay(status));
+ } while (rtas_busy_delay_time(status));
if (status != 0)
printk(KERN_EMERG "ibm,os-term call failed %d\n", status);
