This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
powerpc/booke: Fix boot crash due to null hugepd
to the 4.10-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-booke-fix-boot-crash-due-to-null-hugepd.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 3fb66a70a4ae886445743354e4b60e54058bb3ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 09:11:29 -0600
Subject: powerpc/booke: Fix boot crash due to null hugepd
From: Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor@xxxxxxx>
commit 3fb66a70a4ae886445743354e4b60e54058bb3ff upstream.
On 32-bit book-e machines, hugepd_ok() no longer takes into account null
hugepd values, causing this crash at boot:
Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x80000000
...
NIP [c0018378] follow_huge_addr+0x38/0xf0
LR [c001836c] follow_huge_addr+0x2c/0xf0
Call Trace:
follow_huge_addr+0x2c/0xf0 (unreliable)
follow_page_mask+0x40/0x3e0
__get_user_pages+0xc8/0x450
get_user_pages_remote+0x8c/0x250
copy_strings+0x110/0x390
copy_strings_kernel+0x2c/0x50
do_execveat_common+0x478/0x630
do_execve+0x2c/0x40
try_to_run_init_process+0x18/0x60
kernel_init+0xbc/0x110
ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64
This impacts all nxp (ex-freescale) 32-bit booke platforms.
This was caused by the change of hugepd_t.pd from signed to unsigned,
and the update to the nohash version of hugepd_ok(). Previously
hugepd_ok() could exclude all non-huge and NULL pgds using > 0, whereas
now we need to explicitly check that the value is not zero and also that
PD_HUGE is *clear*.
This isn't protected by the pgd_none() check in __find_linux_pte_or_hugepte()
because on 32-bit we use pgtable-nopud.h, which causes the pgd_none()
check to be always false.
Fixes: 20717e1ff526 ("powerpc/mm: Fix little-endian 4K hugetlb")
Reported-by: Madalin-Cristian Bucur <madalin.bucur@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor@xxxxxxx>
[mpe: Flesh out change log details.]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/powerpc/include/asm/nohash/pgtable.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/nohash/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/nohash/pgtable.h
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ static inline int hugepd_ok(hugepd_t hpd
return ((hpd_val(hpd) & 0x4) != 0);
#else
/* We clear the top bit to indicate hugepd */
- return ((hpd_val(hpd) & PD_HUGE) == 0);
+ return (hpd_val(hpd) && (hpd_val(hpd) & PD_HUGE) == 0);
#endif
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from laurentiu.tudor@xxxxxxx are
queue-4.10/powerpc-booke-fix-boot-crash-due-to-null-hugepd.patch