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Message-ID: <461fa8ba-82c1-73b0-b900-7fa1ffb774f9@infradead.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 21:08:34 -0700
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To: Chen Zhongjin <chenzhongjin@...wei.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Cc: peterz@...radead.org, gor@...ux.ibm.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
axboe@...nel.dk, arnd@...db.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.10] fix csdlock_debug cause arm64 boot panic
Hi--
On 4/20/22 20:39, Chen Zhongjin wrote:
> csdlock_debug is a early_param to enable csd_lock_wait
> feature.
>
> It uses static_branch_enable in early_param which triggers
> a panic on arm64 with config:
> CONFIG_SPARSEMEM=y
> CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP=n
>
> The log shows:
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
> virtual address ", '0' <repeats 16 times>, "
> ...
> Call trace:
> __aarch64_insn_write+0x9c/0x18c
> ...
> static_key_enable+0x1c/0x30
> csdlock_debug+0x4c/0x78
> do_early_param+0x9c/0xcc
> parse_args+0x26c/0x3a8
> parse_early_options+0x34/0x40
> parse_early_param+0x80/0xa4
> setup_arch+0x150/0x6c8
> start_kernel+0x8c/0x720
> ...
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops: Fatal exception
>
> Call trace inside __aarch64_insn_write:
> __nr_to_section
> __pfn_to_page
> phys_to_page
> patch_map
> __aarch64_insn_write
>
> Here, with CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP=n, __nr_to_section returns
> NULL and makes the NULL dereference because mem_section is
> initialized in sparse_init after parse_early_param stage.
>
> So, static_branch_enable shouldn't be used inside early_param.
> To avoid this, I changed it to __setup and fixed this.
>
> Reported-by: Chen jingwen <chenjingwen6@...wei.com>
> Signed-off-by: Chen Zhongjin <chenzhongjin@...wei.com>
> ---
> kernel/smp.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/smp.c b/kernel/smp.c
> index 65a630f62363..1ce64de460d0 100644
> --- a/kernel/smp.c
> +++ b/kernel/smp.c
> @@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ static int __init csdlock_debug(char *str)
>
> return 0;
^^^ This should be
return 1;
since __setup() functions return 1 on success -- opposite of
early_param() return values.
> }
> -early_param("csdlock_debug", csdlock_debug);
> +__setup("csdlock_debug=", csdlock_debug);
>
> static DEFINE_PER_CPU(call_single_data_t *, cur_csd);
> static DEFINE_PER_CPU(smp_call_func_t, cur_csd_func);
Thanks.
--
~Randy
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