linux-kernel - [PATCH] x86/mm: Disable branch profiling in mem

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Message-ID: <20170929162419.6016.53390.stgit@tlendack-t1.amdoffice.net>
Date:   Fri, 29 Sep 2017 11:24:19 -0500
From:   Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>
To:     x86@...nel.org
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: [PATCH] x86/mm: Disable branch profiling in mem_encrypt.c

Some routines in mem_encrypt.c are called very early in the boot process,
e.g. sme_encrypt_kernel(). When CONFIG_TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING is defined
the resulting branch profiling associated with the check to see if SME is
active results in a kernel crash. Disable branch profiling for
mem_encrypt.c by defining DISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING before including any
header files.

Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@...org>
Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>
---
 arch/x86/mm/mem_encrypt.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/mem_encrypt.c b/arch/x86/mm/mem_encrypt.c
index 3fcc8e0..16c5f37 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/mem_encrypt.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/mem_encrypt.c
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@
  * published by the Free Software Foundation.
  */
 
+#define DISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING
+
 #include <linux/linkage.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/mm.h>