[PATCH] MIPS: kernel: Reserve exception base early to prevent corruption

From: Thomas Bogendoerfer
Date: Wed Mar 03 2021 - 14:18:20 EST


BMIPS is one of the few platforms that do change the exception base.
After commit 2dcb39645441 ("memblock: do not start bottom-up allocations
with kernel_end") we started seeing BMIPS boards fail to boot with the
built-in FDT being corrupted.

Before the cited commit, early allocations would be in the [kernel_end,
RAM_END] range, but after commit they would be within [RAM_START +
PAGE_SIZE, RAM_END].

The custom exception base handler that is installed by
bmips_ebase_setup() done for BMIPS5000 CPUs ends-up trampling on the
memory region allocated by unflatten_and_copy_device_tree() thus
corrupting the FDT used by the kernel.

To fix this, we need to perform an early reservation of the custom
exception space. So we reserve it already in cpu_probe() for the CPUs
where this is fixed. For CPU with an ebase config register allocation
of exception space will be done in trap_init().

Huge thanks to Serget for analysing and proposing a solution to this
issue.

Fixes: Fixes: 2dcb39645441 ("memblock: do not start bottom-up allocations with kernel_end")
Debugged-by: Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Kamal Dasu <kdasu.kdev@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/mips/include/asm/traps.h | 4 ++++
arch/mips/kernel/cpu-probe.c | 7 +++++++
arch/mips/kernel/cpu-r3k-probe.c | 3 +++
arch/mips/kernel/smp-bmips.c | 9 +--------
arch/mips/kernel/traps.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++---------------
5 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/traps.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/traps.h
index 6aa8f126a43d..d74d829e1655 100644
--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/traps.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/traps.h
@@ -24,7 +24,11 @@ extern void (*board_ebase_setup)(void);
extern void (*board_cache_error_setup)(void);

extern int register_nmi_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
+extern void reserve_exception_space(unsigned long addr, unsigned long size);
extern char except_vec_nmi[];
+extern unsigned long ebase_size;
+
+#define VECTORSPACING 0x100 /* for EI/VI mode */

#define nmi_notifier(fn, pri) \
({ \
diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/cpu-probe.c b/arch/mips/kernel/cpu-probe.c
index 9a89637b4ecf..effc45cbb351 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/cpu-probe.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/cpu-probe.c
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
#include <asm/elf.h>
#include <asm/pgtable-bits.h>
#include <asm/spram.h>
+#include <asm/traps.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>

#include "fpu-probe.h"
@@ -1628,6 +1629,7 @@ static inline void cpu_probe_broadcom(struct cpuinfo_mips *c, unsigned int cpu)
c->cputype = CPU_BMIPS3300;
__cpu_name[cpu] = "Broadcom BMIPS3300";
set_elf_platform(cpu, "bmips3300");
+ reserve_exception_space(0x80000400, VECTORSPACING * 64);
break;
case PRID_IMP_BMIPS43XX: {
int rev = c->processor_id & PRID_REV_MASK;
@@ -1638,6 +1640,7 @@ static inline void cpu_probe_broadcom(struct cpuinfo_mips *c, unsigned int cpu)
__cpu_name[cpu] = "Broadcom BMIPS4380";
set_elf_platform(cpu, "bmips4380");
c->options |= MIPS_CPU_RIXI;
+ reserve_exception_space(0x80000400, VECTORSPACING * 64);
} else {
c->cputype = CPU_BMIPS4350;
__cpu_name[cpu] = "Broadcom BMIPS4350";
@@ -1654,6 +1657,7 @@ static inline void cpu_probe_broadcom(struct cpuinfo_mips *c, unsigned int cpu)
__cpu_name[cpu] = "Broadcom BMIPS5000";
set_elf_platform(cpu, "bmips5000");
c->options |= MIPS_CPU_ULRI | MIPS_CPU_RIXI;
+ reserve_exception_space(0x80001000, VECTORSPACING * 64);
break;
}
}
@@ -2133,6 +2137,9 @@ void cpu_probe(void)
if (cpu == 0)
__ua_limit = ~((1ull << cpu_vmbits) - 1);
#endif
+
+ if (ebase_size == 0 && !cpu_has_mips_r2_r6)
+ reserve_exception_space(CAC_BASE, 0x400);
}

void cpu_report(void)
diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/cpu-r3k-probe.c b/arch/mips/kernel/cpu-r3k-probe.c
index abdbbe8c5a43..6e3f4c17b810 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/cpu-r3k-probe.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/cpu-r3k-probe.c
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
#include <asm/fpu.h>
#include <asm/mipsregs.h>
#include <asm/elf.h>
+#include <asm/traps.h>

#include "fpu-probe.h"

@@ -158,6 +159,8 @@ void cpu_probe(void)
cpu_set_fpu_opts(c);
else
cpu_set_nofpu_opts(c);
+
+ reserve_exception_space(CAC_BASE, 0x400);
}

void cpu_report(void)
diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/smp-bmips.c b/arch/mips/kernel/smp-bmips.c
index b6ef5f7312cf..ad3f2282a65a 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/smp-bmips.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/smp-bmips.c
@@ -528,10 +528,6 @@ static void bmips_set_reset_vec(int cpu, u32 val)

void bmips_ebase_setup(void)
{
- unsigned long new_ebase = ebase;
-
- BUG_ON(ebase != CKSEG0);
-
switch (current_cpu_type()) {
case CPU_BMIPS4350:
/*
@@ -554,7 +550,6 @@ void bmips_ebase_setup(void)
* 0x8000_0000: reset/NMI (initially in kseg1)
* 0x8000_0400: normal vectors
*/
- new_ebase = 0x80000400;
bmips_set_reset_vec(0, RESET_FROM_KSEG0);
break;
case CPU_BMIPS5000:
@@ -562,16 +557,14 @@ void bmips_ebase_setup(void)
* 0x8000_0000: reset/NMI (initially in kseg1)
* 0x8000_1000: normal vectors
*/
- new_ebase = 0x80001000;
bmips_set_reset_vec(0, RESET_FROM_KSEG0);
- write_c0_ebase(new_ebase);
+ write_c0_ebase(ebase);
break;
default:
return;
}

board_nmi_handler_setup = &bmips_nmi_handler_setup;
- ebase = new_ebase;
}

asmlinkage void __weak plat_wired_tlb_setup(void)
diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c b/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c
index e0352958e2f7..670b824b05a0 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c
@@ -2009,13 +2009,19 @@ void __noreturn nmi_exception_handler(struct pt_regs *regs)
nmi_exit();
}

-#define VECTORSPACING 0x100 /* for EI/VI mode */
-
unsigned long ebase;
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ebase);
+unsigned long ebase_size;
unsigned long exception_handlers[32];
unsigned long vi_handlers[64];

+void reserve_exception_space(unsigned long addr, unsigned long size)
+{
+ ebase = addr;
+ ebase_size = size;
+ memblock_reserve(__pa((void *)ebase), ebase_size);
+}
+
void __init *set_except_vector(int n, void *addr)
{
unsigned long handler = (unsigned long) addr;
@@ -2360,27 +2366,22 @@ void __init trap_init(void)
extern char except_vec3_generic;
extern char except_vec4;
extern char except_vec3_r4000;
- unsigned long i, vec_size;
phys_addr_t ebase_pa;
+ unsigned long i;

check_wait();

- if (!cpu_has_mips_r2_r6) {
- ebase = CAC_BASE;
- ebase_pa = virt_to_phys((void *)ebase);
- vec_size = 0x400;
-
- memblock_reserve(ebase_pa, vec_size);
- } else {
+ if (cpu_has_mips_r2_r6) {
if (cpu_has_veic || cpu_has_vint)
- vec_size = 0x200 + VECTORSPACING*64;
+ ebase_size = 0x200 + VECTORSPACING*64;
else
- vec_size = PAGE_SIZE;
+ ebase_size = PAGE_SIZE;

- ebase_pa = memblock_phys_alloc(vec_size, 1 << fls(vec_size));
+ ebase_pa = memblock_phys_alloc(ebase_size,
+ 1 << fls(ebase_size));
if (!ebase_pa)
panic("%s: Failed to allocate %lu bytes align=0x%x\n",
- __func__, vec_size, 1 << fls(vec_size));
+ __func__, ebase_size, 1 << fls(ebase_size));

/*
* Try to ensure ebase resides in KSeg0 if possible.
@@ -2534,7 +2535,7 @@ void __init trap_init(void)
else
set_handler(0x080, &except_vec3_generic, 0x80);

- local_flush_icache_range(ebase, ebase + vec_size);
+ local_flush_icache_range(ebase, ebase + ebase_size);

sort_extable(__start___dbe_table, __stop___dbe_table);

--
2.29.2