linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] mm: access to uninitialized struct page

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Date:   Mon, 30 Apr 2018 16:26:58 -0700
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...cle.com>
Cc:     steven.sistare@...cle.com, daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...utronix.de, mhocko@...e.com,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, mgorman@...hsingularity.net, mingo@...nel.org,
        peterz@...radead.org, rostedt@...dmis.org, fengguang.wu@...el.com,
        dennisszhou@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm: access to uninitialized struct page

On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 16:26:19 -0400 Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...cle.com> wrote:

> The following two bugs were reported by Fengguang Wu:
> 
> kernel reboot-without-warning in early-boot stage, last printk:
> early console in setup code
> 
> http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180418135300.inazvpxjxowogyge@wfg-t540p.sh.intel.com
> 
> ...
>
> --- a/init/main.c
> +++ b/init/main.c
> @@ -585,8 +585,8 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __init start_kernel(void)
>  	setup_log_buf(0);
>  	vfs_caches_init_early();
>  	sort_main_extable();
> -	trap_init();
>  	mm_init();
> +	trap_init();
>  
>  	ftrace_init();

Gulp.  Let's hope that nothing in mm_init() requires that trap_init()
has been run.  What happens if something goes wrong during mm_init()
and the architecture attempts to raise a software exception, hits a bus
error, div-by-zero, etc, etc?  Might there be hard-to-discover
dependencies in such a case?