Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] powerpc: Fix virt_addr_valid() check

On 2022/1/11 14:04, Christophe Leroy wrote:

Le 11/01/2022 à 05:37, Nicholas Piggin a écrit :

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Excerpts from Kefeng Wang's message of January 8, 2022 9:58 pm:

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Hi PPC maintainers， ping..

Hmm. I might have confused myself about this. I'm going back and
trying to work out what I was thinking when I suggested it. This
works on 64e because vmalloc space is below the kernel linear map,
right?

On 64s it is the other way around and it is still possible to enable
flatmem on 64s. Altough we might just not hit the problem there because
__pa() will not mask away the vmalloc offset for 64s so it will still
return something that's outside the pfn_valid range for flatmem. That's
very subtle though.

That's the way it works on PPC32 at least, so for me it's not chocking
to have it work the same way on PPC64s.

The main issue here is the way __pa() works. On PPC32 __pa = va -
PAGE_OFFSET, so it works correctly for any address.
On PPC64, __pa() works by masking out the 2 top bits instead of
substracting PAGE_OFFSET, so the test must add a verification that we
really have the 2 top bits set at first. This is what (addr >=
PAGE_OFFSET) does. Once this first test is done, we can perfectly rely
on pfn_valid() just like PPC32, I see absolutely no point in an
additionnal test checking the addr is below KERN_VIRT_START.

Hi Christophe and Nicholas， for ppc32， I think we need check the upper 
limit,

eg,  addr >= PAGE_OFFSET && addr < high_memory

arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c:  high_memory = (void *) __va(max_low_pfn * 
PAGE_SIZE);

for ppc32 max_low_pfn is the upper low memory pfn,  and For ppc64, 
high_memory is

the max memory pfn, it looks good too, correct me if I'm wrong, if the 
above check

is ok, I will send a new v3,  thanks.

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The checks added to __pa actually don't prevent vmalloc memory from
being passed to it either on 64s, only a more basic test.

That's correct. It is the role of pfn_valid() to check that.

Christophe

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I think 64s wants (addr >= PAGE_OFFSET && addr < KERN_VIRT_START) as
the condition.  Could possibly add that check to __pa as well to
catch vmalloc addresses.

Thanks,
Nick