linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16 038/294] ARM: kexec: fix failure to boot crash kernel

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Date:   Mon, 06 Nov 2017 23:03:02 +0000
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, "Keerthy" <j-keerthy@...com>,
        "Russell King" <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16 038/294] ARM: kexec: fix failure to boot crash kernel

3.16.50-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Russell King <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>

commit 0d70262a2d60886da6fe5b1fc8bbcd76cbbc306d upstream.

When kexec was converted to DTB, the dtb address was passed between
machine_kexec_prepare() and machine_kexec() using a static variable.
This is bad news if you load a crash kernel followed by a normal
kernel or vice versa - the last loaded kernel overwrites the dtb
address.

This can result in kexec failures, as (eg) we try to boot the crash
kernel with the last loaded dtb.  For example, with:

the crash kernel fails to find the dtb.

Avoid this by defining a kimage architecture structure, and store
the address to be passed in r2 there, which will either be the ATAGs
or the dtb blob.

Fixes: 4cabd1d9625c ("ARM: 7539/1: kexec: scan for dtb magic in segments")
Fixes: 42d720d1731a ("ARM: kexec: Make .text R/W in machine_kexec")
Reported-by: Keerthy <j-keerthy@...com>
Tested-by: Keerthy <j-keerthy@...com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 arch/arm/include/asm/kexec.h    |  5 +++++
 arch/arm/kernel/machine_kexec.c | 11 ++++++-----
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/kexec.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/kexec.h
@@ -19,6 +19,11 @@
 
 #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
 
+#define ARCH_HAS_KIMAGE_ARCH
+struct kimage_arch {
+	u32 kernel_r2;
+};
+
 /**
  * crash_setup_regs() - save registers for the panic kernel
  * @newregs: registers are saved here
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/machine_kexec.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/machine_kexec.c
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ extern unsigned long kexec_boot_atags;
 
 static atomic_t waiting_for_crash_ipi;
 
-static unsigned long dt_mem;
 /*
  * Provide a dummy crash_notes definition while crash dump arrives to arm.
  * This prevents breakage of crash_notes attribute in kernel/ksysfs.c.
@@ -41,6 +40,9 @@ int machine_kexec_prepare(struct kimage
 	__be32 header;
 	int i, err;
 
+	image->arch.kernel_r2 = image->start - KEXEC_ARM_ZIMAGE_OFFSET
+				     + KEXEC_ARM_ATAGS_OFFSET;
+
 	/*
 	 * Validate that if the current HW supports SMP, then the SW supports
 	 * and implements CPU hotplug for the current HW. If not, we won't be
@@ -64,8 +66,8 @@ int machine_kexec_prepare(struct kimage
 		if (err)
 			return err;
 
-		if (be32_to_cpu(header) == OF_DT_HEADER)
-			dt_mem = current_segment->mem;
+		if (header == cpu_to_be32(OF_DT_HEADER))
+			image->arch.kernel_r2 = current_segment->mem;
 	}
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -167,8 +169,7 @@ void machine_kexec(struct kimage *image)
 	kexec_start_address = image->start;
 	kexec_indirection_page = page_list;
 	kexec_mach_type = machine_arch_type;
-	kexec_boot_atags = dt_mem ?: image->start - KEXEC_ARM_ZIMAGE_OFFSET
-				     + KEXEC_ARM_ATAGS_OFFSET;
+	kexec_boot_atags = image->arch.kernel_r2;
 
 	/* copy our kernel relocation code to the control code page */
 	reboot_entry = fncpy(reboot_code_buffer,