From: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Sai Praneeth <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org,
Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri@intel.com>,
Glenn P Williamson <glenn.p.williamson@intel.com>,
Ravi Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>,
Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH] x86/efi: Fix kernel panic when CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL is enabled
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2015 10:49:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1445770144-22280-2-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1445770144-22280-1-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
From: Sai Praneeth <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>
When CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL is enabled, all accesses to __pa(address) are
monitored to see whether address falls in direct mapping or kernel text
mapping (see Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt for details), if it does
not, the kernel panics. During 1:1 mapping of EFI runtime services we access
virtual addresses which are == physical addresses, thus the 1:1 mapping
and these addresses do not fall in either of the above two regions and
hence when passed as arguments to __pa() kernel panics as reported by
Dave Hansen here https://lkml.kernel.org/r/5462999A.7090706@intel.com.
So, before calling __pa() virtual addresses should be validated which
results in skipping call to split_page_count() and that should be fine
because it is used to keep track of everything *but* 1:1 mappings.
Signed-off-by: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>
Reported-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri@intel.com>
Cc: Glenn P Williamson <glenn.p.williamson@intel.com>
Cc: Ravi Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
---
arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c | 9 ++++++---
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
index 727158cb3b3c..9abe0c9b1098 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
@@ -648,9 +648,12 @@ __split_large_page(struct cpa_data *cpa, pte_t *kpte, unsigned long address,
for (i = 0; i < PTRS_PER_PTE; i++, pfn += pfninc)
set_pte(&pbase[i], pfn_pte(pfn, canon_pgprot(ref_prot)));
- if (pfn_range_is_mapped(PFN_DOWN(__pa(address)),
- PFN_DOWN(__pa(address)) + 1))
- split_page_count(level);
+ if (virt_addr_valid(address)) {
+ unsigned long pfn = PFN_DOWN(__pa(address));
+
+ if (pfn_range_is_mapped(pfn, pfn + 1))
+ split_page_count(level);
+ }
/*
* Install the new, split up pagetable.
--
2.6.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-25 10:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-25 10:49 [GIT PULL] EFI changes for v4.4 Matt Fleming
2015-10-25 10:49 ` Matt Fleming [this message]
[not found] ` <1445770144-22280-1-git-send-email-matt-mF/unelCI9GS6iBeEJttW/XRex20P6io@public.gmane.org>
2015-10-27 17:41 ` Ingo Molnar
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-10-13 19:42 [PATCH] x86/efi: Fix kernel panic when CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL is enabled Sai Praneeth Prakhya
[not found] ` <1444765377-29303-1-git-send-email-sai.praneeth.prakhya-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2015-10-14 14:41 ` Borislav Petkov
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