Re: [PATCH v2 12/32] mm/vmalloc: vmalloc_to_page() use pte_offset_kernel()

Mark Brown
2023-07-10T14:42:47Z

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On Thu, Jun 08, 2023 at 06:21:41PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> vmalloc_to_page() was using pte_offset_map() (followed by pte_unmap()),
> but it's intended for userspace page tables: prefer pte_offset_kernel().
>
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>

Currently Linus' tree is reliably failing to boot on pine64plus, an
arm64 SBC. Most other boards seem fine, though I am seeing some
additional instability on Tritium which is another Allwinner platform,
I've not dug into that yet and Tritium is generally less stable.

We end up seeing NULL or otherwise bad pointer dereferences, the
specific error does vary a bit though it mostly appears to be in the
pinctrl code. A bisect (full log below) identified this patch as
introducing the failure, nothing is jumping out at me about the patch
and it's not affecting everything so I'd not be surprised if it's just
unconvering some bug in the platform support but I'm not super familiar
with the code.

Sample backtrace:

[ 1.919725] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000
[ 1.928551] Mem abort info:
[ 1.931359] ESR = 0x0000000096000044

...

[ 1.968870] [0000000000000000] user address but active_mm is swapper

...

[ 2.093969] Call trace:
[ 2.096414] dt_remember_or_free_map+0xc8/0x120
[ 2.100949] pinctrl_dt_to_map+0x23c/0x364
[ 2.105050] create_pinctrl+0x68/0x3ec
[ 2.108803] pinctrl_get+0xb0/0x124
[ 2.112294] devm_pinctrl_get+0x48/0x90
[ 2.116133] pinctrl_bind_pins+0x58/0x158
[ 2.120148] really_probe+0x54/0x2b0
[ 2.123724] __driver_probe_device+0x78/0x12c

Another common theme is the same but with an address like 0x4c and:

[ 2.098328] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1bc/0x2dc
[ 2.102947] kmalloc_trace+0x20/0x2c
[ 2.106524] pinctrl_register_mappings+0x98/0x178

Full boot log from a failure:

https://lava.sirena.org.uk/scheduler/job/712456

git bisect start
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# good: [72dc6db7e3b692f46f3386b8dd5101d3f431adef] Merge tag 'wq-for-6.5-cleanup-ordered' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq
git bisect good 72dc6db7e3b692f46f3386b8dd5101d3f431adef
# bad: [179d3e4f3bfa5947821c1b1bc6aa49a4797b7f21] mm/madvise: clean up force_shm_swapin_readahead()
git bisect bad 179d3e4f3bfa5947821c1b1bc6aa49a4797b7f21
# good: [523716770e63e229dbb6307d663f03d990dfefc5] maple_tree: rework mtree_alloc_{range,rrange}()
git bisect good 523716770e63e229dbb6307d663f03d990dfefc5
# good: [b764253c18821da31c49a260f92f5d093cf1637e] selftests/mm: fix "warning: expression which evaluates to zero..." in mlock2-tests.c
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# good: [5c7f3bf04a6cf266567fdea1ae4987875e92619f] s390: allow pte_offset_map_lock() to fail
git bisect good 5c7f3bf04a6cf266567fdea1ae4987875e92619f
# good: [0d940a9b270b9220dcff74d8e9123c9788365751] mm/pgtable: allow pte_offset_map[_lock]() to fail
git bisect good 0d940a9b270b9220dcff74d8e9123c9788365751
# bad: [0d1c81edc61e553ed7a5db18fb8074c8b78e1538] mm/vmalloc: vmalloc_to_page() use pte_offset_kernel()
git bisect bad 0d1c81edc61e553ed7a5db18fb8074c8b78e1538
# good: [2798bbe75b9c2752b46d292e5c2a49f49da36418] mm/page_vma_mapped: pte_offset_map_nolock() not pte_lockptr()
git bisect good 2798bbe75b9c2752b46d292e5c2a49f49da36418
# good: [be872f83bf571f4f9a0ac25e2c9c36e905a36619] mm/pagewalk: walk_pte_range() allow for pte_offset_map()
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# good: [e5ad581c7f1c32d309ae4e895eea0cd1a3d9f363] mm/vmwgfx: simplify pmd & pud mapping dirty helpers
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# first bad commit: [0d1c81edc61e553ed7a5db18fb8074c8b78e1538] mm/vmalloc: vmalloc_to_page() use pte_offset_kernel()

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