kasan is known to crash at boot on book3s_64 with non-radix MMU. As
noted in commit 41b7a347bf14 ("powerpc: Book3S 64-bit outline-only
KASAN support"):
A kernel with CONFIG_KASAN=y will crash during boot on a machine
using HPT translation because not all the entry points to the
generic KASAN code are protected with a call to kasan_arch_is_ready().
Such crashes look like this:
BUG: Unable to handle kernel data access at 0xc00e00000308b100
Faulting instruction address: 0xc0000000006d0fcc
Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Hash SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries
CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.0.0-rc5-02183-g3ab165dea2a2 #13
[...regs...]
NIP [c0000000006d0fcc] kasan_byte_accessible+0xc/0x20
LR [c0000000006cd9cc] __kasan_check_byte+0x2c/0xa0
Call Trace:
[c00000001688f930] [c00000001688f970] 0xc00000001688f970 (unreliable)
[c00000001688f970] [c0000000005f6a74] ksize+0x34/0xa0
[c00000001688f9a0] [c0000000024c03a8] __alloc_skb+0xd8/0x2d0
[c00000001688fa00] [c0000000003c48c0] audit_log_start+0x260/0x660
[c00000001688fb30] [c0000000003c50ec] audit_log+0x3c/0x70
[c00000001688fb60] [c00000000404590c] audit_init+0x188/0x1ac
[c00000001688fbe0] [c0000000000127e0] do_one_initcall+0xe0/0x610
[c00000001688fcd0] [c00000000400a1f0] kernel_init_freeable+0x4c0/0x574
[c00000001688fda0] [c000000000013450] kernel_init+0x30/0x1d0
[c00000001688fe10] [c00000000000cd54] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64
If you look carefully enough at the full kernel output, you might
notice this message, much earlier:
KASAN not enabled as it requires radix!
But the eventual oops does not carry any indication that the real
problem was detected early on and is a known limitation.
Change init_book3s_64.c::kasan_init() to emit a warning backtrace and
taint the kernel when not running on radix. When the kernel likely
oopses later, the 'W' taint flag in the report should help minimize
developer time spent trying to understand what's gone wrong.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <nath...@linux.ibm.com>
---
arch/powerpc/mm/kasan/init_book3s_64.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/kasan/init_book3s_64.c
b/arch/powerpc/mm/kasan/init_book3s_64.c
index 9300d641cf9a..5d9894d7fb97 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/kasan/init_book3s_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/kasan/init_book3s_64.c
@@ -56,10 +56,8 @@ void __init kasan_init(void)
u64 i;
pte_t zero_pte = pfn_pte(virt_to_pfn(kasan_early_shadow_page),
PAGE_KERNEL);
- if (!early_radix_enabled()) {
- pr_warn("KASAN not enabled as it requires radix!");
+ if (WARN(!early_radix_enabled(), "KASAN known broken on HPT"))
return;
- }
for_each_mem_range(i, &start, &end)
kasan_init_phys_region((void *)start, (void *)end);
--
2.37.1
