linux-kernel - Re: [v5.3-rc1 regression] Hitting a kernel BUG() when trying to load a module on DaVinci SoC

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Message-ID: <b822e119-2f80-6aa1-cd45-93cdd6cb2680@lechnology.com>
Date:   Mon, 22 Jul 2019 14:38:26 -0500
From:   David Lechner <david@...hnology.com>
To:     Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>, Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
Cc:     Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@...wei.com>,
        Jian Cheng <cj.chengjian@...wei.com>,
        Nadav Amit <namit@...are.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@...com>,
        Kevin Hilman <khilman@...nel.org>,
        Adam Ford <aford173@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [v5.3-rc1 regression] Hitting a kernel BUG() when trying to load
 a module on DaVinci SoC

On 7/22/19 11:10 AM, Jessica Yu wrote:
> +++ Bartosz Golaszewski [22/07/19 14:12 +0200]:
>> Hi,
>>
>> with v5.3-rc1 I'm hitting the following BUG() when trying to load the
>> gpio-backlight module:
>>
>> kernel BUG at kernel/module.c:1919!
>> Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] PREEMPT ARM
>> Modules linked in:
>> CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Tainted: G        W
>> 5.2.0-rc2-00005-g7dabaa5ce05a #19
>> Hardware name: DaVinci DA850/OMAP-L138/AM18x EVM
>> PC is at frob_text.constprop.16+0x2c/0x34
>> LR is at load_module+0x1888/0x21b4
>> pc : [<c0081bbc>]    lr : [<c0083c4c>]    psr: 20000013
>> sp : c6837e58  ip : c6b4fa80  fp : bf00574c
>> r10: c0601008  r9 : bf005740  r8 : c0493e38
>> r7 : c00807f8  r6 : 00000000  r5 : 00000001  r4 : c6837f38
>> r3 : 00000fff  r2 : bf000000  r1 : 00004b80  r0 : bf005818
>> Flags: nzCv  IRQs on  FIQs on  Mode SVC_32  ISA ARM  Segment none
>> Control: 0005317f  Table: c6b78000  DAC: 00000051
>> Process systemd (pid: 1, stack limit = 0x(ptrval))
>> Stack: (0xc6837e58 to 0xc6838000)
>> 7e40:                                                       bf005740 c6492a90
>> 7e60: 00000001 c6bf5788 00000003 c6837f38 bf0058c0 bf0058a8 bf00a495 c0493e38
>> 7e80: 00000000 c05368c0 00000001 00000000 c0580030 c0574b28 00000000 00000000
>> 7ea0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 6e72656b 00006c65 00000000 00000000
>> 7ec0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
>> 7ee0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 aefb2bb8 7fffffff c0601008 00000000 00000004
>> 7f00: b6cee714 c00091e4 c6836000 00000000 005bc668 c00847b0 7fffffff 00000000
>> 7f20: 00000003 00000000 0000b2d0 c884e000 0000b2d0 00000000 c8852dcb c88533a0
>> 7f40: c884e000 0000b2d0 c8858cb8 c8858b34 c88568d4 000058c0 00006190 000023b8
>> 7f60: 00006713 00000000 00000000 00000000 000023a8 00000024 00000025 00000019
>> 7f80: 0000001d 00000011 00000000 aefb2bb8 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
>> 7fa0: 0000017b c0009000 00000000 00000000 00000004 b6cee714 00000000 00000000
>> 7fc0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 0000017b 00000000 00000000 00000001 005bc668
>> 7fe0: be907b00 be907af0 b6ce66b0 b6c3fac0 60000010 00000004 00000000 00000000
>> [<c0081bbc>] (frob_text.constprop.16) from [<c0083c4c>]
>> (load_module+0x1888/0x21b4)
>> [<c0083c4c>] (load_module) from [<c00847b0>] (sys_finit_module+0xbc/0xdc)
>> [<c00847b0>] (sys_finit_module) from [<c0009000>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x50)
>> Exception stack(0xc6837fa8 to 0xc6837ff0)
>> 7fa0:                   00000000 00000000 00000004 b6cee714 00000000 00000000
>> 7fc0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 0000017b 00000000 00000000 00000001 005bc668
>> 7fe0: be907b00 be907af0 b6ce66b0 b6c3fac0
>> Code: e1a01621 e1a00002 eafe4531 e7f001f2 (e7f001f2)
>> ---[ end trace 2cbefb0005882c52 ]---
>> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b
>> ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
>> exitcode=0x0000000b ]---
>>
>> I bisected it to commit 06bd260e836d ("modules: fix BUG when load
>> module with rodata=n") with commit 7dabaa5ce05a ("modules: fix compile
>> error if don't have strict module rwx") on top to make it build.
>>
>> Let me know if you need me to provide more info.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Bartosz Golaszewski
> 
> Hi Bartosz,
> 
> Thanks for reporting this, I was able to reproduce this on qemu.
> 
> This is due to hitting the BUG_ON() in frob_text() due to layout->base
> and/or layout->text_size not being page-aligned. These values are
> always page-aligned when CONFIG_STRICT_MODULE_RWX=y, but in commit
> 2eef1399a86 ("modules: fix BUG when load module with rodata=n"), the
> frob_text()+set_memory_x() calls got moved *outside* of the
> STRICT_MODULE_RWX block since some arches (like x86 and arm64)
> allocate non-executable module memory via module_alloc(), so naturally
> the module text needed to be made executable at a later stage of
> load_module(), regardless of whether STRICT_MODULE_RWX is set or not.
> In your case, you must've had CONFIG_STRICT_MODULE_RWX=n and so we
> were calling frob_text() with non-page-aligned values, triggering the
> BUG_ON().
> 
> In any case, could you please try and see if the following patch fixes
> the issue for you?
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
> index 5933395af9a0..cd8df516666d 100644
> --- a/kernel/module.c
> +++ b/kernel/module.c
> @@ -64,14 +64,9 @@
> 
> /*
>   * Modules' sections will be aligned on page boundaries
> - * to ensure complete separation of code and data, but
> - * only when CONFIG_STRICT_MODULE_RWX=y
> + * to ensure complete separation of code and data
>   */
> -#ifdef CONFIG_STRICT_MODULE_RWX
> # define debug_align(X) ALIGN(X, PAGE_SIZE)
> -#else
> -# define debug_align(X) (X)
> -#endif
> 
> /* If this is set, the section belongs in the init part of the module */
> #define INIT_OFFSET_MASK (1UL << (BITS_PER_LONG-1))

Works for me.

Tested-by: David Lechner <david@...hnology.com>