Breno Leitao <lei...@debian.org> writes: > Hello, > > Kernel 4.12-rc1 is showing a bug when I try it on a POWER8 virtual > machine. Justing SSHing into the machine causes this issue.
Can you try this? cheers diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h index 2a32483c7b6c..8da5d4c1cab2 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h @@ -132,7 +132,19 @@ extern long long virt_phys_offset; #define virt_to_pfn(kaddr) (__pa(kaddr) >> PAGE_SHIFT) #define virt_to_page(kaddr) pfn_to_page(virt_to_pfn(kaddr)) #define pfn_to_kaddr(pfn) __va((pfn) << PAGE_SHIFT) + +#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64 +/* + * On hash the vmalloc and other regions alias to the kernel region when passed + * through __pa(), which virt_to_pfn() uses. That means virt_addr_valid() can + * return true for some vmalloc addresses, which is incorrect. So explicitly + * check that the address is in the kernel region. + */ +#define virt_addr_valid(kaddr) (REGION_ID(kaddr) == KERNEL_REGION_ID && \ + pfn_valid(virt_to_pfn(kaddr))) +#else #define virt_addr_valid(kaddr) pfn_valid(virt_to_pfn(kaddr)) +#endif /* * On Book-E parts we need __va to parse the device tree and we can't
