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Laurentiu Tudor 3fb66a70a4 powerpc/booke: Fix boot crash due to null hugepd
On 32-bit book-e machines, hugepd_ok() no longer takes into account null
hugepd values, causing this crash at boot:

  Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x80000000
  ...
  NIP [c0018378] follow_huge_addr+0x38/0xf0
  LR [c001836c] follow_huge_addr+0x2c/0xf0
  Call Trace:
   follow_huge_addr+0x2c/0xf0 (unreliable)
   follow_page_mask+0x40/0x3e0
   __get_user_pages+0xc8/0x450
   get_user_pages_remote+0x8c/0x250
   copy_strings+0x110/0x390
   copy_strings_kernel+0x2c/0x50
   do_execveat_common+0x478/0x630
   do_execve+0x2c/0x40
   try_to_run_init_process+0x18/0x60
   kernel_init+0xbc/0x110
   ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64

This impacts all nxp (ex-freescale) 32-bit booke platforms.

This was caused by the change of hugepd_t.pd from signed to unsigned,
and the update to the nohash version of hugepd_ok(). Previously
hugepd_ok() could exclude all non-huge and NULL pgds using > 0, whereas
now we need to explicitly check that the value is not zero and also that
PD_HUGE is *clear*.

This isn't protected by the pgd_none() check in __find_linux_pte_or_hugepte()
because on 32-bit we use pgtable-nopud.h, which causes the pgd_none()
check to be always false.

Fixes: 20717e1ff5 ("powerpc/mm: Fix little-endian 4K hugetlb")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.7+
Reported-by: Madalin-Cristian Bucur <madalin.bucur@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor@nxp.com>
[mpe: Flesh out change log details.]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-03-03 11:24:50 +11:00
arch powerpc/booke: Fix boot crash due to null hugepd 2017-03-03 11:24:50 +11:00
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Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
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See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.