The following commit 0a9fe8ca844d ("x86/mm: Validate kernel_physical_mapping_init() PTE population") triggers the below warning in the SEV guest.
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at arch/x86/include/asm/pgalloc.h:87 phys_pmd_init+0x30d/0x386 Call Trace: kernel_physical_mapping_init+0xce/0x259 early_set_memory_enc_dec+0x10f/0x160 kvm_smp_prepare_boot_cpu+0x71/0x9d start_kernel+0x1c9/0x50b secondary_startup_64+0xa4/0xb0 The SEV guest calls kernel_physical_mapping_init() to clear the encryption mask from an existing mapping. While clearing the encryption mask kernel_physical_mapping_init() splits the large pages into the smaller. To split the page, the kernel_physical_mapping_init() allocates a new page and updates the existing entry. The set_{pud,pmd}_safe triggers warning when updating the entry with page in the present state. We should use the set_{pud,pmd} when updating an existing entry with the new entry. Updating an entry will also requires a TLB flush. Currently the caller (early_set_memory_enc_dec()) is taking care of issuing the TLB flushes. Signed-off-by: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.si...@amd.com> Fixes: 0a9fe8ca844d (x86/mm: Validate kernel_physical_mapping_init() ...) Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@intel.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shute...@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lenda...@amd.com> --- arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c index bccff68e3267..0a26b64a99b9 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c @@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ phys_pmd_init(pmd_t *pmd_page, unsigned long paddr, unsigned long paddr_end, paddr_last = phys_pte_init(pte, paddr, paddr_end, new_prot); spin_lock(&init_mm.page_table_lock); - pmd_populate_kernel_safe(&init_mm, pmd, pte); + pmd_populate_kernel(&init_mm, pmd, pte); spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock); } update_page_count(PG_LEVEL_2M, pages); @@ -623,7 +623,7 @@ phys_pud_init(pud_t *pud_page, unsigned long paddr, unsigned long paddr_end, page_size_mask, prot); spin_lock(&init_mm.page_table_lock); - pud_populate_safe(&init_mm, pud, pmd); + pud_populate(&init_mm, pud, pmd); spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock); } -- 2.17.1