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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: lkp@lists.01.org
Subject: Re: [x86/mm/ASLR] f47233c2d34: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c:63 __ioremap_check_ram+0x445/0x4a0()
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 12:12:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150226111250.GA32024@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150226103040.GA3573@pd.tnic>

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* Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> wrote:

> thanks for the report.
> 
> So, AFAICT, this is caused by ksysfs ioremapping struct 
> setup_data for a short time so that it can count it and 
> show it in /sys/kernel/boot_params/setup_data/*
> 
> And, of course, the setup_data thing which we're using 
> for kaslr param passing is RAM and ioremap complains.
> 
> And currently I don't have a good idea how to fix it. 
> Perhaps introduce an ioremap_* something which suppresses 
> the warning as we're going to iounmap() right afterwards 
> but that's ugly.

Why is it ioremap()-ed to begin with, why cannot the kernel 
access its own data structure in RAM directly?

Thanks,

	Ingo

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, LKP ML <lkp@01.org>,
	x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [LKP] [x86/mm/ASLR] f47233c2d34: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c:63 __ioremap_check_ram+0x445/0x4a0()
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 12:12:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150226111250.GA32024@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150226103040.GA3573@pd.tnic>


* Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> wrote:

> thanks for the report.
> 
> So, AFAICT, this is caused by ksysfs ioremapping struct 
> setup_data for a short time so that it can count it and 
> show it in /sys/kernel/boot_params/setup_data/*
> 
> And, of course, the setup_data thing which we're using 
> for kaslr param passing is RAM and ioremap complains.
> 
> And currently I don't have a good idea how to fix it. 
> Perhaps introduce an ioremap_* something which suppresses 
> the warning as we're going to iounmap() right afterwards 
> but that's ugly.

Why is it ioremap()-ed to begin with, why cannot the kernel 
access its own data structure in RAM directly?

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-26 11:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-26  5:37 [x86/mm/ASLR] f47233c2d34: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c:63 __ioremap_check_ram+0x445/0x4a0() Huang Ying
2015-02-26  5:37 ` [LKP] " Huang Ying
2015-02-26 10:30 ` Borislav Petkov
2015-02-26 10:30   ` [LKP] " Borislav Petkov
2015-02-26 11:12   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2015-02-26 11:12     ` Ingo Molnar
2015-02-26 12:16     ` Borislav Petkov
2015-02-26 12:16       ` [LKP] " Borislav Petkov
2015-02-28 10:50       ` Borislav Petkov
2015-02-28 10:50         ` [LKP] " Borislav Petkov
2015-02-28 19:20         ` Matt Fleming
2015-02-28 19:20           ` [LKP] " Matt Fleming
2015-02-28 19:52           ` Borislav Petkov
2015-02-28 19:52             ` [LKP] " Borislav Petkov

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