linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH 3/3] mips: ralink: mt7621: do not use kzalloc too early

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Date:   Thu,  3 Nov 2022 15:05:38 +1000
From:   John Thomson <git@...nthomson.fastmail.com.au>
To:     Sergio Paracuellos <sergio.paracuellos@...il.com>,
        Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal@...nc9.com>,
        John Crispin <john@...ozen.org>,
        Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>
Cc:     linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        John Thomson <git@...nthomson.fastmail.com.au>
Subject: [RFC PATCH 3/3] mips: ralink: mt7621: do not use kzalloc too early

Following commit 6edf2576a6cc ("mm/slub: enable debugging memory wasting
of kmalloc") mt7621 failed to boot very early, without showing any
console messages.
This exposed the pre-existing bug of mt7621.c using kzalloc before normal
memory management was available.
Prior to this slub change, there existed the unintended protection against
"kmem_cache *s" being NULL as slab_pre_alloc_hook() happened to
return NULL and bailed out of slab_alloc_node().
This allowed mt7621 prom_soc_init to fail in the soc_dev_init kzalloc,
but continue booting without this soc device.

Console output from a DEBUG_ZBOOT vmlinuz kernel loading,
with mm/slub modified to warn on kmem_cache zero or null:

zimage at:     80B842A0 810B4BC0
Uncompressing Linux at load address 80001000
Copy device tree to address  80B80EE0
Now, booting the kernel...

[    0.000000] Linux version 6.1.0-rc3+ (john@...n)
(mipsel-buildroot-linux-gnu-gcc.br_real (Buildroot
2021.11-4428-g6b6741b) 12.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.39) #73 SMP Wed
     Nov  2 05:10:01 AEST 2022
[    0.000000] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[    0.000000] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at mm/slub.c:3416
kmem_cache_alloc+0x5a4/0x5e8
[    0.000000] Modules linked in:
[    0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 6.1.0-rc3+ #73
[    0.000000] Stack : 810fff78 80084d98 00000000 00000004 00000000
00000000 80889d04 80c90000
[    0.000000]         80920000 807bd328 8089d368 80923bd3 00000000
00000001 80889cb0 00000000
[    0.000000]         00000000 00000000 807bd328 8084bcb1 00000002
00000002 00000001 6d6f4320
[    0.000000]         00000000 80c97d3d 80c97d68 fffffffc 807bd328
00000000 00000000 00000000
[    0.000000]         00000000 a0000000 80910000 8110a0b4 00000000
00000020 80010000 80010000
[    0.000000]         ...
[    0.000000] Call Trace:
[    0.000000] [<80008260>] show_stack+0x28/0xf0
[    0.000000] [<8070c958>] dump_stack_lvl+0x60/0x80
[    0.000000] [<8002e184>] __warn+0xc4/0xf8
[    0.000000] [<8002e210>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x58/0xa4
[    0.000000] [<801c0fac>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x5a4/0x5e8
[    0.000000] [<8092856c>] prom_soc_init+0x1fc/0x2b4
[    0.000000] [<80928060>] prom_init+0x44/0xf0
[    0.000000] [<80929214>] setup_arch+0x4c/0x6a8
[    0.000000] [<809257e0>] start_kernel+0x88/0x7c0
[    0.000000]
[    0.000000] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
[    0.000000] SoC Type: MediaTek MT7621 ver:1 eco:3
[    0.000000] printk: bootconsole [early0] enabled

This early kzalloc was introduced in commit 71b9b5e0130d ("MIPS: ralink:
mt7621: introduce 'soc_device' initialization")

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/becf2ac3-2a90-4f3a-96d9-a70f67c66e4a@app.fastmail.com/
Signed-off-by: John Thomson <git@...nthomson.fastmail.com.au>
---
 arch/mips/ralink/mt7621.c | 14 +++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/mips/ralink/mt7621.c b/arch/mips/ralink/mt7621.c
index f2443b833bc3..836965021d5c 100644
--- a/arch/mips/ralink/mt7621.c
+++ b/arch/mips/ralink/mt7621.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 #define MT7621_MEM_TEST_PATTERN         0xaa5555aa
 
 static u32 detect_magic __initdata;
+struct ralink_soc_info *soc_info_ptr;
 
 int pcibios_root_bridge_prepare(struct pci_host_bridge *bridge)
 {
@@ -147,27 +148,30 @@ static const char __init *mt7621_get_soc_revision(void)
 		return "E1";
 }
 
-static void soc_dev_init(struct ralink_soc_info *soc_info)
+static int __init mt7621_soc_dev_init(void)
 {
 	struct soc_device *soc_dev;
 	struct soc_device_attribute *soc_dev_attr;
 
 	soc_dev_attr = kzalloc(sizeof(*soc_dev_attr), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!soc_dev_attr)
-		return;
+		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	soc_dev_attr->soc_id = "mt7621";
 	soc_dev_attr->family = "Ralink";
 	soc_dev_attr->revision = mt7621_get_soc_revision();
 
-	soc_dev_attr->data = soc_info;
+	soc_dev_attr->data = soc_info_ptr;
 
 	soc_dev = soc_device_register(soc_dev_attr);
 	if (IS_ERR(soc_dev)) {
 		kfree(soc_dev_attr);
-		return;
+		return PTR_ERR(soc_dev);
 	}
+
+	return 0;
 }
+device_initcall(mt7621_soc_dev_init);
 
 void __init prom_soc_init(struct ralink_soc_info *soc_info)
 {
@@ -209,7 +213,7 @@ void __init prom_soc_init(struct ralink_soc_info *soc_info)
 
 	soc_info->mem_detect = mt7621_memory_detect;
 
-	soc_dev_init(soc_info);
+	soc_info_ptr = soc_info;
 
 	if (!register_cps_smp_ops())
 		return;
-- 
2.37.2