linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] of/fdt: Make sure no-map does not remove already reserved regions

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Message-ID: <5d2e5141.1c69fb81.ef731.8450@mx.google.com>
Date:   Tue, 16 Jul 2019 15:35:44 -0700
From:   Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org>
To:     Nicolas Boichat <drinkcat@...omium.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>
Cc:     Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@...rix.com>,
        Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] of/fdt: Make sure no-map does not remove already reserved regions

Quoting Nicolas Boichat (2019-07-02 22:08:27)
> If the device tree is incorrectly configured, and attempts to
> define a "no-map" reserved memory that overlaps with the kernel
> data/code, the kernel would crash quickly after boot, with no
> obvious clue about the nature of the issue.
> 
> For example, this would happen if we have the kernel mapped at
> these addresses (from /proc/iomem):
> 40000000-41ffffff : System RAM
>   40080000-40dfffff : Kernel code
>   40e00000-411fffff : reserved
>   41200000-413e0fff : Kernel data
> 
> And we declare a no-map shared-dma-pool region at a fixed address
> within that range:
> mem_reserved: mem_region {
>         compatible = "shared-dma-pool";
>         reg = <0 0x40000000 0 0x01A00000>;
>         no-map;
> };
> 
> To fix this, when removing memory regions at early boot (which is
> what "no-map" regions do), we need to make sure that the memory
> is not already reserved. If we do, __reserved_mem_reserve_reg
> will throw an error:
> [    0.000000] OF: fdt: Reserved memory: failed to reserve memory
>    for node 'mem_region': base 0x0000000040000000, size 26 MiB
> and the code that will try to use the region should also fail,
> later on.
> 
> We do not do anything for non-"no-map" regions, as memblock
> explicitly allows reserved regions to overlap, and the commit
> that this fixes removed the check for that precise reason.
> 
> Fixes: 094cb98179f19b7 ("of/fdt: memblock_reserve /memreserve/ regions in the case of partial overlap")
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Boichat <drinkcat@...omium.org>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org>