[PATCH] x86: Fix static memory detection
From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Thu Jan 30 2020 - 21:12:13 EST
When booting x86 images in qemu, the following warning is seen
randomly if DEBUG_LOCKDEP is enabled.
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at kernel/locking/lockdep.c:1119
lockdep_register_key+0xc0/0x100
static_obj() returns true if an address is between _stext and _end.
On x86, this includes the brk memory space. Problem is that this
memory block is not static on x86; its unused portions are released
after init and can be allocated. This results in the observed warning
if a lockdep object is allocated from this memory.
Solve the problem by implementing arch_is_kernel_initmem_freed()
for x86 and have it return true if an address is within the released
memory range.
The same problem was solved for s390 with commit 7a5da02de8d6e
("locking/lockdep: check for freed initmem in static_obj()"), which
introduced arch_is_kernel_initmem_freed().
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/sections.h | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 1 -
2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/sections.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/sections.h
index 036c360910c5..a6e8373a5170 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/sections.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/sections.h
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
#ifndef _ASM_X86_SECTIONS_H
#define _ASM_X86_SECTIONS_H
+#define arch_is_kernel_initmem_freed arch_is_kernel_initmem_freed
+
#include <asm-generic/sections.h>
#include <asm/extable.h>
@@ -14,4 +16,22 @@ extern char __end_rodata_hpage_align[];
extern char __end_of_kernel_reserve[];
+extern unsigned long _brk_start, _brk_end;
+
+static inline bool arch_is_kernel_initmem_freed(unsigned long addr)
+{
+ /*
+ * If _brk_start has not been cleared, brk allocation is incomplete,
+ * and we can not make assumptions about its use.
+ */
+ if (_brk_start)
+ return 0;
+
+ /*
+ * After brk allocation is complete, space between _brk_end and _end
+ * is available for allocation.
+ */
+ return addr >= _brk_end && addr < (unsigned long)&_end;
+}
+
#endif /* _ASM_X86_SECTIONS_H */
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
index 1e4c20a1efec..08f5ceed70e0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
@@ -64,7 +64,6 @@ RESERVE_BRK(dmi_alloc, 65536);
* at link time, with RESERVE_BRK*() facility reserving additional
* chunks.
*/
-static __initdata
unsigned long _brk_start = (unsigned long)__brk_base;
unsigned long _brk_end = (unsigned long)__brk_base;
--
2.17.1