Hi Greg, Since the patch: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210420093559.23168-1-catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx/ has forced CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP=y from 5.12, it's not necessary to include this patch on master. However this problem still exist on 5.10 stable, so either we can backport the above patch to 5.10, or independently apply mine. I'm not sure if backporting one exist patch is better, but that patch only changed configs without any fix for old builds. If you have any advice please tell me. Thanks! Chen On 2022/5/7 17:47, Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, May 07, 2022 at 04:45:10PM +0800, Chen Zhongjin wrote: >> csdlock_debug is a early_param to enable csd_lock_wait >> feature. >> >> It uses static_branch_enable in early_param which triggers >> a panic on arm64 with config: >> CONFIG_SPARSEMEM=y >> CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP=n >> >> The log shows: >> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at >> virtual address ", '0' <repeats 16 times>, " >> ... >> Call trace: >> __aarch64_insn_write+0x9c/0x18c >> ... >> static_key_enable+0x1c/0x30 >> csdlock_debug+0x4c/0x78 >> do_early_param+0x9c/0xcc >> parse_args+0x26c/0x3a8 >> parse_early_options+0x34/0x40 >> parse_early_param+0x80/0xa4 >> setup_arch+0x150/0x6c8 >> start_kernel+0x8c/0x720 >> ... >> Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops: Fatal exception >> >> Call trace inside __aarch64_insn_write: >> __nr_to_section >> __pfn_to_page >> phys_to_page >> patch_map >> __aarch64_insn_write >> >> Here, with CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP=n, __nr_to_section returns >> NULL and makes the NULL dereference because mem_section is >> initialized in sparse_init after parse_early_param stage. >> >> So, static_branch_enable shouldn't be used inside early_param. >> To avoid this, I changed it to __setup and fixed this. >> >> Reported-by: Chen jingwen <chenjingwen6@xxxxxxxxxx> >> Signed-off-by: Chen Zhongjin <chenzhongjin@xxxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> Change v2 -> v3: >> Add module name in title >> >> Change v1 -> v2: >> Fix return 1 for __setup >> --- >> >> kernel/smp.c | 4 ++-- >> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/kernel/smp.c b/kernel/smp.c >> index 65a630f62363..381eb15cd28f 100644 >> --- a/kernel/smp.c >> +++ b/kernel/smp.c >> @@ -174,9 +174,9 @@ static int __init csdlock_debug(char *str) >> if (val) >> static_branch_enable(&csdlock_debug_enabled); >> >> - return 0; >> + return 1; >> } >> -early_param("csdlock_debug", csdlock_debug); >> +__setup("csdlock_debug=", csdlock_debug); >> >> static DEFINE_PER_CPU(call_single_data_t *, cur_csd); >> static DEFINE_PER_CPU(smp_call_func_t, cur_csd_func); >> -- >> 2.17.1 >> > > > <formletter> > > This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the > stable kernel tree. Please read: > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html > for how to do this properly. > > </formletter> > .
