Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulni...@google.com> writes:
> Hello ppc friends, did this get picked up into -next yet?
Not yet.
It's in my next-test, but it got stuck there because some subsequent
patches caused some CI errors that I had to debug.
I'll push it to next today.
cheers
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 8:35 PM Nathan Chancellor
> <natechancel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 07, 2020 at 10:09:15AM +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>> > Commit 2efc7c085f05 ("powerpc/32: drop get_pteptr()"),
>> > replaced get_pteptr() by virt_to_kpte(). But virt_to_kpte() lacks a
>> > NULL pmd check and returns an invalid non NULL pointer when there
>> > is no page table.
>> >
>> > Reported-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulni...@google.com>
>> > Fixes: 2efc7c085f05 ("powerpc/32: drop get_pteptr()")
>> > Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.le...@c-s.fr>
>> > ---
>> > arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable.h | 4 +++-
>> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable.h
>> > b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable.h
>> > index b80bfd41828d..b1f1d5339735 100644
>> > --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable.h
>> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable.h
>> > @@ -54,7 +54,9 @@ static inline pmd_t *pmd_ptr_k(unsigned long va)
>> >
>> > static inline pte_t *virt_to_kpte(unsigned long vaddr)
>> > {
>> > - return pte_offset_kernel(pmd_ptr_k(vaddr), vaddr);
>> > + pmd_t *pmd = pmd_ptr_k(vaddr);
>> > +
>> > + return pmd_none(*pmd) ? NULL : pte_offset_kernel(pmd, vaddr);
>> > }
>> > #endif
>> >
>> > --
>> > 2.25.0
>> >
>>
>> With QEMU 4.2.0, I can confirm this fixes the panic:
>>
>> Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancel...@gmail.com>
>
>
>
> --
> Thanks,
> ~Nick Desaulniers
