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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	"Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org>,
	x86 <x86@kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kasan-dev <kasan-dev@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: AMD boot woe due to "x86/mm: Cleanup pgprot_4k_2_large() and pgprot_large_2_4k()"
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 18:17:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200422161757.GC26846@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1ED37D02-125F-4919-861A-371981581D9E@lca.pw>

On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 11:55:54AM -0400, Qian Cai wrote:
> Reverted the linux-next commit and its dependency,
> 
> a85573f7e741 ("x86/mm: Unexport __cachemode2pte_tbl”)
> 9e294786c89a (“x86/mm: Cleanup pgprot_4k_2_large() and pgprot_large_2_4k()”)
> 
> fixed crashes or hard reset on AMD machines during boot that have been flagged by
> KASAN in different forms indicating some sort of memory corruption with this config,
> 
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cailca/linux-mm/master/x86.config

What is the special thing about this config? You have KASAN enabled and?
Anything else?

I need to know what are the relevant switches you've enabled so that I
can enable them on my box too and try to reproduce.

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette

  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-22 16:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-22 15:55 AMD boot woe due to "x86/mm: Cleanup pgprot_4k_2_large() and pgprot_large_2_4k()" Qian Cai
2020-04-22 16:17 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2020-04-22 16:35   ` Qian Cai
2020-04-22 16:47     ` Borislav Petkov
2020-04-22 18:54       ` Qian Cai
2020-04-22 17:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-22 18:35   ` Qian Cai
2020-04-22 21:32   ` Qian Cai
2020-04-22 21:47     ` Borislav Petkov
2020-04-22 21:57       ` Qian Cai
2020-04-22 22:05         ` Borislav Petkov
2020-04-23  6:08           ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-23 10:47             ` Qian Cai
2020-04-23 11:06               ` Boris Petkov
2020-04-23 11:21                 ` Qian Cai
2020-04-23 12:22                   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-04-23 12:26   ` [tip: x86/mm] x86/mm: Use pgprotval_t in protval_4k_2_large() and protval_large_2_4k() tip-bot2 for Christoph Hellwig

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