linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: initialize jump labels before setup_machine

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Date:   Tue, 7 Jun 2022 17:14:59 +0200
From:   "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
To:     Phil Elwell <phil@...pberrypi.com>
Cc:     Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Russell King <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>,
        linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
        stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: initialize jump labels before setup_machine_fdt()

Hey again,

On Tue, Jun 07, 2022 at 10:15:27AM +0100, Phil Elwell wrote:
> On 07/06/2022 09:43, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > Hi Phil,
> > 
> > On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 10:29 AM Phil Elwell <phil@...pberrypi.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> This patch is fatal for me in the downstream Raspberry Pi kernel - it locks up
> >> on boot even before the earlycon output is available. Hacking jump_label_init to
> >> skip the jump_entry for "crng_is_ready" allows it to boot, but is likely to have
> >> consequences further down the line.
> > 
> > Also, reading this a few times, I'm not 100% sure I understand what
> > you did to hack around this and why that works. Think you could paste
> > your hackpatch just out of interest to the discussion (but obviously
> > not to be applied)?
> 
> This is the minimal version of my workaround patch that at least allows the 
> board to boot. Bear in mind that it was written with no previous knowledge of 
> jump labels and was arrived at by iteratively bisecting the list of jump_labels 
> until the first dangerous one was found, then later working out that there was 
> only one.

Looks like this patch fails due to CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX.
Investigating deeper now, but that for starters seems to be the
differentiating factor between my prior test rig and one that reproduces
the error. I assume your raspi also sets CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX.

Jason