linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] powerpc/85xx: fix oops when CONFIG_FSL

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Message-Id: <163853238100.2903976.13035103513287667638.b4-ty@ellerman.id.au>
Date:   Fri, 03 Dec 2021 22:53:01 +1100
From:   Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@...erman.id.au>
To:     benh@...nel.crashing.org, chunkeey@...il.com,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, hurricos@...il.com,
        chenhui.zhao@...escale.com, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@...wei.com>, wangle6@...wei.com,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, mpe@...erman.id.au,
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        Yuantian.Tang@...scale.com, paul.gortmaker@...driver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/85xx: fix oops when CONFIG_FSL_PMC=n

On Fri, 26 Nov 2021 12:11:53 +0800, Xiaoming Ni wrote:
> When CONFIG_FSL_PMC is set to n, no value is assigned to cpu_up_prepare
>  in the mpc85xx_pm_ops structure. As a result, oops is triggered in
>  smp_85xx_start_cpu().
> 
> 	[    0.627233] smp: Bringing up secondary CPUs ...
> 	[    0.681659] kernel tried to execute user page (0) - exploit attempt? (uid: 0)
> 	[    0.766618] BUG: Unable to handle kernel instruction fetch (NULL pointer?)
> 	[    0.848899] Faulting instruction address: 0x00000000
> 	[    0.908273] Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
> 	...
> 	[    1.758220] NIP [00000000] 0x0
> 	[    1.794688] LR [c0021d2c] smp_85xx_kick_cpu+0xe8/0x568
> 	[    1.856126] Call Trace:
> 	[    1.885295] [c1051da8] [c0021cb8] smp_85xx_kick_cpu+0x74/0x568 (unreliable)
> 	[    1.968633] [c1051de8] [c0011460] __cpu_up+0xc0/0x228
> 	[    2.029038] [c1051e18] [c0031bbc] bringup_cpu+0x30/0x224
> 	[    2.092572] [c1051e48] [c0031f3c] cpu_up.constprop.0+0x180/0x33c
> 	[    2.164443] [c1051e88] [c00322e8] bringup_nonboot_cpus+0x88/0xc8
> 	[    2.236326] [c1051eb8] [c07e67bc] smp_init+0x30/0x78
> 	[    2.295698] [c1051ed8] [c07d9e28] kernel_init_freeable+0x118/0x2a8
> 	[    2.369641] [c1051f18] [c00032d8] kernel_init+0x14/0x124
> 	[    2.433176] [c1051f38] [c0010278] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x14/0x1c
> 
> [...]

Applied to powerpc/fixes.

[1/1] powerpc/85xx: fix oops when CONFIG_FSL_PMC=n
      https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/3dc709e518b47386e6af937eaec37bb36539edfd

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