From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
To: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
Cc: sstabellini@kernel.org, wei.liu2@citrix.com,
Chenxia Zhao <chenxiao.zhao@gmail.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: [for-4.7] xen/arm: Don't call setup_virtual_regions multiple time
Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 14:28:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160525132848.GJ22076@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1464182046-11573-1-git-send-email-julien.grall@arm.com>
Should be "multiple times" in title.
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 02:14:06PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
> The commit 2aa925be84293b44ad587ed117184ace61b41dd6 "arm/x86: Use struct
> virtual_region to do bug, symbol, and (x86) exception tables lookup."
> has introduced virtual_region. The call to initialize those regions is
> made in init_traps which is called during each CPU bring up.
>
> This will result to register multiple time the same region and Xen crash
> when an address is looked up.
>
> This can be fixed by moving the call to setup_virtual_region directly in
> start_xen.
>
> Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
> Reported-by: Chenxia Zhao <chenxiao.zhao@gmail.com>
>
> ---
>
> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
>
> This is a bug fix for Xen 4.7. Without this change, any use of
> virtual_region (printing a symbol) could lead to a crash in Xen.
Yes, this needs fixing.
And of course this is all ARM code and you're the maintainer so I'm fine
with this going in:
Release-acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
> ---
> xen/arch/arm/setup.c | 1 +
> xen/arch/arm/traps.c | 2 --
> 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/setup.c b/xen/arch/arm/setup.c
> index 09ff1ea..9bc11c4 100644
> --- a/xen/arch/arm/setup.c
> +++ b/xen/arch/arm/setup.c
> @@ -722,6 +722,7 @@ void __init start_xen(unsigned long boot_phys_offset,
> set_current((struct vcpu *)0xfffff000); /* debug sanity */
> idle_vcpu[0] = current;
>
> + setup_virtual_regions(NULL, NULL);
> /* Initialize traps early allow us to get backtrace when an error occurred */
> init_traps();
>
> diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/traps.c b/xen/arch/arm/traps.c
> index 1828ea1..aa3e3c2 100644
> --- a/xen/arch/arm/traps.c
> +++ b/xen/arch/arm/traps.c
> @@ -102,8 +102,6 @@ integer_param("debug_stack_lines", debug_stack_lines);
>
> void init_traps(void)
> {
> - setup_virtual_regions(NULL, NULL);
> -
> /* Setup Hyp vector base */
> WRITE_SYSREG((vaddr_t)hyp_traps_vector, VBAR_EL2);
>
> --
> 1.9.1
>
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-25 13:14 [for-4.7] xen/arm: Don't call setup_virtual_regions multiple time Julien Grall
2016-05-25 13:28 ` Wei Liu [this message]
2016-05-25 13:37 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-05-25 13:44 ` Wei Liu
2016-05-25 13:37 ` Wei Liu
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