This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
powerpc/mm: Fix boot crash with FLATMEM
to the 5.15-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-mm-fix-boot-crash-with-flatmem.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 9238191c8cb3b7585bd5d0137d3fe944d0149999
Author: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Oct 23 22:25:00 2023 +1100
powerpc/mm: Fix boot crash with FLATMEM
[ Upstream commit daa9ada2093ed23d52b4c1fe6e13cf78f55cc85f ]
Erhard reported that his G5 was crashing with v6.6-rc kernels:
mpic: Setting up HT PICs workarounds for U3/U4
BUG: Unable to handle kernel data access at 0xfeffbb62ffec65fe
Faulting instruction address: 0xc00000000005dc40
Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
BE PAGE_SIZE=4K MMU=Hash SMP NR_CPUS=2 PowerMac
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G T 6.6.0-rc3-PMacGS #1
Hardware name: PowerMac11,2 PPC970MP 0x440101 PowerMac
NIP: c00000000005dc40 LR: c000000000066660 CTR: c000000000007730
REGS: c0000000022bf510 TRAP: 0380 Tainted: G T (6.6.0-rc3-PMacGS)
MSR: 9000000000001032 <SF,HV,ME,IR,DR,RI> CR: 44004242 XER: 00000000
IRQMASK: 3
GPR00: 0000000000000000 c0000000022bf7b0 c0000000010c0b00 00000000000001ac
GPR04: 0000000003c80000 0000000000000300 c0000000f20001ae 0000000000000300
GPR08: 0000000000000006 feffbb62ffec65ff 0000000000000001 0000000000000000
GPR12: 9000000000001032 c000000002362000 c000000000f76b80 000000000349ecd8
GPR16: 0000000002367ba8 0000000002367f08 0000000000000006 0000000000000000
GPR20: 00000000000001ac c000000000f6f920 c0000000022cd985 000000000000000c
GPR24: 0000000000000300 00000003b0a3691d c0003e008030000e 0000000000000000
GPR28: c00000000000000c c0000000f20001ee feffbb62ffec65fe 00000000000001ac
NIP hash_page_do_lazy_icache+0x50/0x100
LR __hash_page_4K+0x420/0x590
Call Trace:
hash_page_mm+0x364/0x6f0
do_hash_fault+0x114/0x2b0
data_access_common_virt+0x198/0x1f0
--- interrupt: 300 at mpic_init+0x4bc/0x10c4
NIP: c000000002020a5c LR: c000000002020a04 CTR: 0000000000000000
REGS: c0000000022bf9f0 TRAP: 0300 Tainted: G T (6.6.0-rc3-PMacGS)
MSR: 9000000000001032 <SF,HV,ME,IR,DR,RI> CR: 24004248 XER: 00000000
DAR: c0003e008030000e DSISR: 40000000 IRQMASK: 1
...
NIP mpic_init+0x4bc/0x10c4
LR mpic_init+0x464/0x10c4
--- interrupt: 300
pmac_setup_one_mpic+0x258/0x2dc
pmac_pic_init+0x28c/0x3d8
init_IRQ+0x90/0x140
start_kernel+0x57c/0x78c
start_here_common+0x1c/0x20
A bisect pointed to the breakage beginning with commit 9fee28baa601 ("powerpc:
implement the new page table range API").
Analysis of the oops pointed to a struct page with a corrupted
compound_head being loaded via page_folio() -> _compound_head() in
hash_page_do_lazy_icache().
The access by the mpic code is to an MMIO address, so the expectation
is that the struct page for that address would be initialised by
init_unavailable_range(), as pointed out by Aneesh.
Instrumentation showed that was not the case, which eventually lead to
the realisation that pfn_valid() was returning false for that address,
causing the struct page to not be initialised.
Because the system is using FLATMEM, the version of pfn_valid() in
memory_model.h is used:
static inline int pfn_valid(unsigned long pfn)
{
...
return pfn >= pfn_offset && (pfn - pfn_offset) < max_mapnr;
}
Which relies on max_mapnr being initialised. Early in boot max_mapnr is
zero meaning no PFNs are valid.
max_mapnr is initialised in mem_init() called via:
start_kernel()
mm_core_init() # init/main.c:928
mem_init()
But that is too late for the usage in init_unavailable_range() called via:
start_kernel()
setup_arch() # init/main.c:893
paging_init()
free_area_init()
init_unavailable_range()
Although max_mapnr is currently set in mem_init(), the value is actually
already available much earlier, as soon as mem_topology_setup() has
completed, which is also before paging_init() is called. So move the
initialisation there, which causes paging_init() to correctly initialise
the struct page and fixes the bug.
This bug seems to have been lurking for years, but went unnoticed
because the pre-folio code was inspecting the uninitialised page->flags
but not dereferencing it.
Thanks to Erhard and Aneesh for help debugging.
Reported-by: Erhard Furtner <erhard_f@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230929132750.3cd98452@yea/
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://msgid.link/20231023112500.1550208-1-mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
index b1e43b69a559d..42338e2921d64 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
@@ -887,6 +887,8 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
/* Parse memory topology */
mem_topology_setup();
+ /* Set max_mapnr before paging_init() */
+ set_max_mapnr(max_pfn);
/*
* Release secondary cpus out of their spinloops at 0x60 now that
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
index 6902f453c7451..01fc77564cac1 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
@@ -288,7 +288,6 @@ void __init mem_init(void)
#endif
high_memory = (void *) __va(max_low_pfn * PAGE_SIZE);
- set_max_mapnr(max_pfn);
kasan_late_init();
