[PATCH stable 4.19 1/1] arch: pgtable: define MAX_POSSIBLE_PHYSMEM_BITS where needed
Greg KH
gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Thu Nov 4 01:34:58 PDT 2021
On Wed, Nov 03, 2021 at 01:56:56PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
>
> [ Upstream commit cef397038167ac15d085914493d6c86385773709 ]
>
> Stefan Agner reported a bug when using zsram on 32-bit Arm machines
> with RAM above the 4GB address boundary:
>
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
> pgd = a27bd01c
> [00000000] *pgd=236a0003, *pmd=1ffa64003
> Internal error: Oops: 207 [#1] SMP ARM
> Modules linked in: mdio_bcm_unimac(+) brcmfmac cfg80211 brcmutil raspberrypi_hwmon hci_uart crc32_arm_ce bcm2711_thermal phy_generic genet
> CPU: 0 PID: 123 Comm: mkfs.ext4 Not tainted 5.9.6 #1
> Hardware name: BCM2711
> PC is at zs_map_object+0x94/0x338
> LR is at zram_bvec_rw.constprop.0+0x330/0xa64
> pc : [<c0602b38>] lr : [<c0bda6a0>] psr: 60000013
> sp : e376bbe0 ip : 00000000 fp : c1e2921c
> r10: 00000002 r9 : c1dda730 r8 : 00000000
> r7 : e8ff7a00 r6 : 00000000 r5 : 02f9ffa0 r4 : e3710000
> r3 : 000fdffe r2 : c1e0ce80 r1 : ebf979a0 r0 : 00000000
> Flags: nZCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode SVC_32 ISA ARM Segment user
> Control: 30c5383d Table: 235c2a80 DAC: fffffffd
> Process mkfs.ext4 (pid: 123, stack limit = 0x495a22e6)
> Stack: (0xe376bbe0 to 0xe376c000)
>
> As it turns out, zsram needs to know the maximum memory size, which
> is defined in MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS when CONFIG_SPARSEMEM is set, or in
> MAX_POSSIBLE_PHYSMEM_BITS on the x86 architecture.
>
> The same problem will be hit on all 32-bit architectures that have a
> physical address space larger than 4GB and happen to not enable sparsemem
> and include asm/sparsemem.h from asm/pgtable.h.
>
> After the initial discussion, I suggested just always defining
> MAX_POSSIBLE_PHYSMEM_BITS whenever CONFIG_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT is
> set, or provoking a build error otherwise. This addresses all
> configurations that can currently have this runtime bug, but
> leaves all other configurations unchanged.
>
> I looked up the possible number of bits in source code and
> datasheets, here is what I found:
>
> - on ARC, CONFIG_ARC_HAS_PAE40 controls whether 32 or 40 bits are used
> - on ARM, CONFIG_LPAE enables 40 bit addressing, without it we never
> support more than 32 bits, even though supersections in theory allow
> up to 40 bits as well.
> - on MIPS, some MIPS32r1 or later chips support 36 bits, and MIPS32r5
> XPA supports up to 60 bits in theory, but 40 bits are more than
> anyone will ever ship
> - On PowerPC, there are three different implementations of 36 bit
> addressing, but 32-bit is used without CONFIG_PTE_64BIT
> - On RISC-V, the normal page table format can support 34 bit
> addressing. There is no highmem support on RISC-V, so anything
> above 2GB is unused, but it might be useful to eventually support
> CONFIG_ZRAM for high pages.
>
> Fixes: 61989a80fb3a ("staging: zsmalloc: zsmalloc memory allocation library")
> Fixes: 02390b87a945 ("mm/zsmalloc: Prepare to variable MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS")
> Acked-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend at alpha.franken.de>
> Reviewed-by: Stefan Agner <stefan at agner.ch>
> Tested-by: Stefan Agner <stefan at agner.ch>
> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt at linux.ibm.com>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/bdfa44bf1c570b05d6c70898e2bbb0acf234ecdf.1604762181.git.stefan@agner.ch/
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal at kernel.org>
> [florian: patch arch/powerpc/include/asm/pte-common.h for 4.19.y]
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com>
All now queued up, thanks.
greg k-h
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