[PATCH v4 3/6] riscv: Move DTB_EARLY_BASE_VA to the kernel address space

Björn Töpel bjorn at kernel.org
Fri Feb 17 06:58:48 PST 2023


Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti at rivosinc.com> writes:

> The early virtual address should lie in the kernel address space for
> inline kasan instrumentation to succeed, otherwise kasan tries to
> dereference an address that does not exist in the address space (since
> kasan only maps *kernel* address space, not the userspace).
>
> Simply use the very first address of the kernel address space for the
> early fdt mapping.
>
> It allowed an Ubuntu kernel to boot successfully with inline
> instrumentation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti at rivosinc.com>

Reviewed-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn at rivosinc.com>



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