[PATCH v1] RISC-V: take text_mutex during alternative patching

Samuel Holland samuel at sholland.org
Sun Feb 12 11:58:21 PST 2023


On 2/12/23 13:47, Conor Dooley wrote:
> From: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley at microchip.com>
> 
> Guenter reported a splat during boot, that Samuel pointed out was the
> lockdep assertion failing in patch_insn_write():
> 
> WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at arch/riscv/kernel/patch.c:63 patch_insn_write+0x222/0x2f6
> epc : patch_insn_write+0x222/0x2f6
>  ra : patch_insn_write+0x21e/0x2f6
> epc : ffffffff800068c6 ra : ffffffff800068c2 sp : ffffffff81803df0
>  gp : ffffffff81a1ab78 tp : ffffffff81814f80 t0 : ffffffffffffe000
>  t1 : 0000000000000001 t2 : 4c45203a76637369 s0 : ffffffff81803e40
>  s1 : 0000000000000004 a0 : 0000000000000000 a1 : ffffffffffffffff
>  a2 : 0000000000000004 a3 : 0000000000000000 a4 : 0000000000000001
>  a5 : 0000000000000000 a6 : 0000000000000000 a7 : 0000000052464e43
>  s2 : ffffffff80b4889c s3 : 000000000000082c s4 : ffffffff80b48828
>  s5 : 0000000000000828 s6 : ffffffff8131a0a0 s7 : 0000000000000fff
>  s8 : 0000000008000200 s9 : ffffffff8131a520 s10: 0000000000000018
>  s11: 000000000000000b t3 : 0000000000000001 t4 : 000000000000000d
>  t5 : ffffffffd8180000 t6 : ffffffff81803bc8
> status: 0000000200000100 badaddr: 0000000000000000 cause: 0000000000000003
> [<ffffffff800068c6>] patch_insn_write+0x222/0x2f6
> [<ffffffff80006a36>] patch_text_nosync+0xc/0x2a
> [<ffffffff80003b86>] riscv_cpufeature_patch_func+0x52/0x98
> [<ffffffff80003348>] _apply_alternatives+0x46/0x86
> [<ffffffff80c02d36>] apply_boot_alternatives+0x3c/0xfa
> [<ffffffff80c03ad8>] setup_arch+0x584/0x5b8
> [<ffffffff80c0075a>] start_kernel+0xa2/0x8f8
> 
> This issue was exposed by 702e64550b12 ("riscv: fpu: switch has_fpu() to
> riscv_has_extension_likely()"), as it is the patching in has_fpu() that
> triggers the splats in Guenter's report.
> 
> Take the text_mutex before doing any code patching to satisfy lockdep.
> 
> Fixes: ff689fd21cb1 ("riscv: add RISC-V Svpbmt extension support")
> Fixes: a35707c3d850 ("riscv: add memory-type errata for T-Head")
> Fixes: 1a0e5dbd3723 ("riscv: sifive: Add SiFive alternative ports")
> Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230212154333.GA3760469@roeck-us.net/
> Signed-off-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley at microchip.com>
> ---
> Applies on top of Samuel's critical fixes in his "Fix alternatives
> issues on for-next":
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230212021534.59121-1-samuel@sholland.org/
> ---
>  arch/riscv/errata/sifive/errata.c | 3 +++
>  arch/riscv/errata/thead/errata.c  | 8 ++++++--
>  arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c    | 4 ++++
>  3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Samuel Holland <samuel at sholland.org>




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