Kyle has reported that kernel crashes sometimes when it boots in 5-level paging mode with KASLR enabled:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at arch/x86/mm/init_64.c:87 phys_p4d_init+0x1d4/0x1ea RIP: 0010:phys_p4d_init+0x1d4/0x1ea Call Trace: __kernel_physical_mapping_init+0x10a/0x35c kernel_physical_mapping_init+0xe/0x10 init_memory_mapping+0x1aa/0x3b0 init_range_memory_mapping+0xc8/0x116 init_mem_mapping+0x225/0x2eb setup_arch+0x6ff/0xcf5 start_kernel+0x64/0x53b ? copy_bootdata+0x1f/0xce x86_64_start_reservations+0x24/0x26 x86_64_start_kernel+0x8a/0x8d secondary_startup_64+0xb6/0xc0 which causes later: BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ff484d019580eff8 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page BAD Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI RIP: 0010:fill_pud+0x13/0x130 Call Trace: set_pte_vaddr_p4d+0x2e/0x50 set_pte_vaddr+0x6f/0xb0 __native_set_fixmap+0x28/0x40 native_set_fixmap+0x39/0x70 register_lapic_address+0x49/0xb6 early_acpi_boot_init+0xa5/0xde setup_arch+0x944/0xcf5 start_kernel+0x64/0x53b Kyle bisected the issue to commit b569c1843498 ("x86/mm/KASLR: Reduce randomization granularity for 5-level paging to 1GB") Before the commit PAGE_OFFSET is always aligned to P4D_SIZE if we boot in 5-level paging mode. But now only PUD_SIZE alignment is guaranteed. For phys_p4d_init() it means that 'paddr_next' after the first iteration can belong to the same p4d entry. In the case I was able to reproduce the 'vaddr' on the first iteration is 0xff4228027fe00000 and 'paddr' is 0x33fe00000. On the second iteration 'vaddr' becomes 0xff42287f40000000 and 'paddr' is 0x8000000000. The 'vaddr' in both cases belong to the same p4d entry. It screws up 'i' count: we miss the last entry in the page table completely. And it confuses the branch under 'paddr >= paddr_end' condition: the p4d entry can be cleared where must not to. The patch makes phys_p4d_init() walk by virtual address space, like __kernel_physical_mapping_init() does. It makes it work correctly with phys-virt mismatch. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shute...@linux.intel.com> Reported-and-tested-by: Kyle Pelton <kyle.d.pel...@intel.com> Fixes: b569c1843498 ("x86/mm/KASLR: Reduce randomization granularity for 5-level paging to 1GB") Cc: Baoquan He <b...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shute...@linux.intel.com> --- arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 24 +++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c index 693aaf28d5fe..0f01c7b1d217 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c @@ -671,23 +671,25 @@ static unsigned long __meminit phys_p4d_init(p4d_t *p4d_page, unsigned long paddr, unsigned long paddr_end, unsigned long page_size_mask, bool init) { - unsigned long paddr_next, paddr_last = paddr_end; - unsigned long vaddr = (unsigned long)__va(paddr); - int i = p4d_index(vaddr); + unsigned long vaddr, vaddr_end, vaddr_next, paddr_next, paddr_last; + + paddr_last = paddr_end; + vaddr = (unsigned long)__va(paddr); + vaddr_end = (unsigned long)__va(paddr_end); if (!pgtable_l5_enabled()) return phys_pud_init((pud_t *) p4d_page, paddr, paddr_end, page_size_mask, init); - for (; i < PTRS_PER_P4D; i++, paddr = paddr_next) { - p4d_t *p4d; + for (; vaddr < vaddr_end; vaddr = vaddr_next) { + p4d_t *p4d = p4d_page + p4d_index(vaddr); pud_t *pud; - vaddr = (unsigned long)__va(paddr); - p4d = p4d_page + p4d_index(vaddr); - paddr_next = (paddr & P4D_MASK) + P4D_SIZE; + vaddr_next = (vaddr & P4D_MASK) + P4D_SIZE; + paddr = __pa(vaddr); if (paddr >= paddr_end) { + paddr_next = __pa(vaddr_next); if (!after_bootmem && !e820__mapped_any(paddr & P4D_MASK, paddr_next, E820_TYPE_RAM) && @@ -699,13 +701,13 @@ phys_p4d_init(p4d_t *p4d_page, unsigned long paddr, unsigned long paddr_end, if (!p4d_none(*p4d)) { pud = pud_offset(p4d, 0); - paddr_last = phys_pud_init(pud, paddr, paddr_end, - page_size_mask, init); + paddr_last = phys_pud_init(pud, paddr, __pa(vaddr_end), + page_size_mask, init); continue; } pud = alloc_low_page(); - paddr_last = phys_pud_init(pud, paddr, paddr_end, + paddr_last = phys_pud_init(pud, paddr, __pa(vaddr_end), page_size_mask, init); spin_lock(&init_mm.page_table_lock); -- 2.21.0