linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 04/11] regmap: kunit: Run sparse cache tests at non-zero register addresses

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Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 14:10:28 +0100
From: Richard Fitzgerald <rf@...nsource.cirrus.com>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
CC: <broonie@...nel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <patches@...nsource.cirrus.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/11] regmap: kunit: Run sparse cache tests at non-zero
 register addresses

On 16/05/2024 20:53, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Apr 08, 2024 at 03:45:53PM +0100, Richard Fitzgerald wrote:
>> Run the cache_drop() and cache_present() tests at blocks of addresses
>> that don't start at zero.
>>
>> This adds a from_reg parameter to struct regmap_test_param. This is
>> used to set the base address of the register defaults created by
>> gen_regmap().
>>
>> Extra entries are added to sparse_cache_types_list[] to test at non-zero
>> from_reg values. The cache_drop() and cache_present() tests are updated
>> to test at the given offset.
>>
>> The aim here is to add test cases to cache_drop() for the bug fixed by
>> commit 00bb549d7d63 ("regmap: maple: Fix cache corruption in
>> regcache_maple_drop()")
>>
>> But the same parameter table is used by the cache_present() test so
>> let's also update that to use from_reg.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Richard Fitzgerald <rf@...nsource.cirrus.com>
> 
> With this patch in mainline, I get lots of errors such as
> 
> [   23.494308] =============================================================================
> [   23.496391] BUG kmalloc-64 (Tainted: G                 N): kmalloc Redzone overwritten
> 
I've managed to reproduce redzone errors in a x86_64 build with some of
the SLUB debugging enabled. I will investigate.