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Commit 980411a4 authored by Michael Ellerman's avatar Michael Ellerman
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powerpc/code-patching: Fix oops with DEBUG_VM enabled



Nathan reported that the new per-cpu mm patching oopses if DEBUG_VM is
enabled:

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  kernel BUG at arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c:333!
  Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1]
  LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Radix SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA PowerNV
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.1.0-rc2+ #1
  Hardware name: IBM PowerNV (emulated by qemu) POWER9 0x4e1200 opal:v7.0 PowerNV
  ...
  NIP assert_pte_locked+0x180/0x1a0
  LR  assert_pte_locked+0x170/0x1a0
  Call Trace:
    0x60000000 (unreliable)
    patch_instruction+0x618/0x6d0
    arch_prepare_kprobe+0xfc/0x2d0
    register_kprobe+0x520/0x7c0
    arch_init_kprobes+0x28/0x3c
    init_kprobes+0x108/0x184
    do_one_initcall+0x60/0x2e0
    kernel_init_freeable+0x1f0/0x3e0
    kernel_init+0x34/0x1d0
    ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64

It's caused by the assert_spin_locked() failing in assert_pte_locked().
The assert fails because the PTE was unlocked in text_area_cpu_up_mm(),
and never relocked.

The PTE page shouldn't be freed, the patching_mm is only used for
patching on this CPU, only that single PTE is ever mapped, and it's only
unmapped at CPU offline.

In fact assert_pte_locked() has a special case to ignore init_mm
entirely, and the patching_mm is more-or-less like init_mm, so possibly
the check could be skipped for patching_mm too.

But for now be conservative, and use the proper PTE accessors at
patching time, so that the PTE lock is held while the PTE is used. That
also avoids the warning in assert_pte_locked().

With that it's no longer necessary to save the PTE in
cpu_patching_context for the mm_patch_enabled() case.

Fixes: c28c15b6 ("powerpc/code-patching: Use temporary mm for Radix MMU")
Reported-by: default avatarNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221216125913.990972-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
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