linux-kernel - Re: Bad virt_to_phys since commit 54c7a8916a887f35

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Date:   Thu, 16 May 2019 14:41:06 +0100
From:   Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Steven Price <steven.price@....com>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Subject: Re: Bad virt_to_phys since commit 54c7a8916a887f35

On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 02:38:20PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Since commit:
> 
>   54c7a8916a887f35 ("initramfs: free initrd memory if opening /initrd.image fails")

Ugh, I dropped a paragarph here.

Since that commit, I'm seeing a boot-time splat on arm64 when using
CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL. I'm running an arm64 syzkaller instance, and this
kills the VM, preventing further testing, which is unfortunate.

Mark.

> IIUC prior to that commit, we'd only attempt to free an intird if we had
> one, whereas now we do so unconditionally. AFAICT, in this case
> initrd_start has not been initialized (I'm not using an initrd or
> initramfs on my system), so we end up trying virt_to_phys() on a bogus
> VA in free_initrd_mem().
> 
> Any ideas on the right way to fix this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark.
> 
> [    5.251023][    T1] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [    5.252465][    T1] virt_to_phys used for non-linear address: (____ptrval____) (0x0)
> [    5.254388][    T1] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at arch/arm64/mm/physaddr.c:15 __virt_to_phys+0x88/0xb8
> [    5.256473][    T1] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.1.0-11058-g83f3ef3 #4
> [    5.258513][    T1] Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
> [    5.259923][    T1] pstate: 80400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO)
> [    5.261375][    T1] pc : __virt_to_phys+0x88/0xb8
> [    5.262623][    T1] lr : __virt_to_phys+0x88/0xb8
> [    5.263879][    T1] sp : ffff80000be4fc60
> [    5.264941][    T1] x29: ffff80000be4fc60 x28: 0000000040000000 
> [    5.266522][    T1] x27: ffff200015445000 x26: 0000000000000000 
> [    5.268112][    T1] x25: 0000000000000000 x24: ffff2000163e0000 
> [    5.269691][    T1] x23: ffff2000163e0440 x22: ffff2000163e0000 
> [    5.271270][    T1] x21: ffff2000163e0400 x20: 0000000000000000 
> [    5.272860][    T1] x19: 0000000000000000 x18: ffff200016aa0f80 
> [    5.274430][    T1] x17: ffff2000153a0000 x16: 00000000f2000000 
> [    5.276018][    T1] x15: 1fffe40002d5560d x14: 1ffff00007716109 
> [    5.277596][    T1] x13: ffff200016e17000 x12: ffff040002a83fd9 
> [    5.279179][    T1] x11: 1fffe40002a83fd8 x10: ffff040002a83fd8 
> [    5.280765][    T1] x9 : 1fffe40002a83fd8 x8 : dfff200000000000 
> [    5.282343][    T1] x7 : ffff040002a83fd9 x6 : ffff20001541fec0 
> [    5.283929][    T1] x5 : ffff80003b8b0040 x4 : 0000000000000000 
> [    5.285509][    T1] x3 : ffff2000102c6504 x2 : ffff1000017c9f54 
> [    5.287091][    T1] x1 : 15eab2dadba38000 x0 : 0000000000000000 
> [    5.288678][    T1] Call trace:
> [    5.289532][    T1]  __virt_to_phys+0x88/0xb8
> [    5.290701][    T1]  free_initrd_mem+0x3c/0x50
> [    5.291894][    T1]  populate_rootfs+0x2f4/0x358
> [    5.293123][    T1]  do_one_initcall+0x568/0xb94
> [    5.294349][    T1]  kernel_init_freeable+0xd44/0xe2c
> [    5.295695][    T1]  kernel_init+0x14/0x1c0
> [    5.296814][    T1]  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x1c
> [    5.297947][    T1] irq event stamp: 288672
> [    5.299069][    T1] hardirqs last  enabled at (288671): [<ffff2000102c4cac>] console_unlock+0x89c/0xe50
> [    5.301521][    T1] hardirqs last disabled at (288672): [<ffff2000100823e0>] do_debug_exception+0x268/0x3e0
> [    5.304061][    T1] softirqs last  enabled at (288668): [<ffff2000100835e0>] __do_softirq+0xa38/0xf48
> [    5.306457][    T1] softirqs last disabled at (288653): [<ffff2000101ac994>] irq_exit+0x2a4/0x318
> [    5.308777][    T1] ---[ end trace 3cf83e3c184a4d3e ]---