It supposed to be safe to modify static branches after jump_label_init().
But, because static key modifying code eventually calls text_poke() it can
end up accessing a struct page which has not been initialized yet.
Here is how to quickly reproduce the problem. Insert code like this
into init/main.c:
| +static DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(__test);
| asmlinkage __visible void __init start_kernel(void)
| {
| char *command_line;
|@@ -587,6 +609,10 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __init start_kernel(void)
| vfs_caches_init_early();
| sort_main_extable();
| trap_init();
|+ {
|+ static_branch_enable(&__test);
|+ WARN_ON(!static_branch_likely(&__test));
|+ }
| mm_init();
The following warnings show-up:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:701 text_poke+0x20d/0x230
RIP: 0010:text_poke+0x20d/0x230
Call Trace:
? text_poke_bp+0x50/0xda
? arch_jump_label_transform+0x89/0xe0
? __jump_label_update+0x78/0xb0
? static_key_enable_cpuslocked+0x4d/0x80
? static_key_enable+0x11/0x20
? start_kernel+0x23e/0x4c8
? secondary_startup_64+0xa5/0xb0
---[ end trace abdc99c031b8a90a ]---
If the code above is moved after mm_init(), no warning is shown, as struct
pages are initialized during handover from memblock.
Use text_poke_early() in static branching until early boot IRQs are enabled
and from there switch to text_poke. Also, ensure text_poke() is never
invoked when unitialized memory access may happen by using adding a
!after_bootmem assertion.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>
Cc: steven.sistare@oracle.com
Cc: daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com
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Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
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Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180719205545.16512-9-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com
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