Re: [PATCH 5.4] ACPICA: Always create namespace nodes using acpi_ns_create_node()

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, May 05, 2022 at 05:01:40PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> From: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
> 
> commit 25928deeb1e4e2cdae1dccff349320c6841eb5f8 upstream.
> 
> ACPICA commit 29da9a2a3f5b2c60420893e5c6309a0586d7a329
> 
> ACPI is allocating an object using kmalloc(), but then frees it
> using kmem_cache_free(<"Acpi-Namespace" kmem_cache>).
> 
> This is wrong and can lead to boot failures manifesting like this:
> 
>     hpet0: 3 comparators, 64-bit 100.000000 MHz counter
>     clocksource: Switched to clocksource tsc-early
>     BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 000000003ffe0018
>     #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
>     #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
>     PGD 0 P4D 0
>     Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
>     CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.6.0+ #211
>     Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS
> Ubuntu-1.8.2-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014
>     RIP: 0010:kmem_cache_alloc+0x70/0x1d0
>     Code: 00 00 4c 8b 45 00 65 49 8b 50 08 65 4c 03 05 6f cc e7 7e 4d 8b
> 20 4d 85 e4 0f 84 3d 01 00 00 8b 45 20 48 8b 7d 00 48 8d 4a 01 <49> 8b
>    1c 04 4c 89 e0 65 48 0f c7 0f 0f 94 c0 84 c0 74 c5 8b 45 20
>     RSP: 0000:ffffc90000013df8 EFLAGS: 00010206
>     RAX: 0000000000000018 RBX: ffffffff81c49200 RCX: 0000000000000002
>     RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000dc0 RDI: 000000000002b300
>     RBP: ffff88803e403d00 R08: ffff88803ec2b300 R09: 0000000000000001
>     R10: 0000000000000dc0 R11: 0000000000000006 R12: 000000003ffe0000
>     R13: ffffffff8110a583 R14: 0000000000000dc0 R15: ffffffff81c49a80
>     FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88803ec00000(0000)
> knlGS:0000000000000000
>     CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
>     CR2: 000000003ffe0018 CR3: 0000000001c0a001 CR4: 00000000003606f0
>     DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
>     DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
>     Call Trace:
>      __trace_define_field+0x33/0xa0
>      event_trace_init+0xeb/0x2b4
>      tracer_init_tracefs+0x60/0x195
>      ? register_tracer+0x1e7/0x1e7
>      do_one_initcall+0x74/0x160
>      kernel_init_freeable+0x190/0x1f0
>      ? rest_init+0x9a/0x9a
>      kernel_init+0x5/0xf6
>      ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40
>     CR2: 000000003ffe0018
>     ---[ end trace 707efa023f2ee960 ]---
>     RIP: 0010:kmem_cache_alloc+0x70/0x1d0
> 
> Bisection leads to unrelated changes in slab; Vlastimil Babka
> suggests an unrelated layout or slab merge change merely exposed
> the underlying bug.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/4dc93ff8-f86e-f4c9-ebeb-6d3153a78d03@oracle.com/
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a1461e21-c744-767d-6dfc-6641fd3e3ce2@siemens.com
> Link: https://github.com/acpica/acpica/commit/29da9a2a
> Fixes: f79c8e4136ea ("ACPICA: Namespace: simplify creation of the initial/default namespace")
> Reported-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
> Diagnosed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
> Diagnosed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Erik Kaneda <erik.kaneda@intel.com>
> Cc: 5.10+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.10+
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
> ---
> Greg/Rafael - tihs was marked as 5.10, but 5.4 crashes without it. So
> maybe it was mistagged? Will let you guys decide. -Jason

Makes sense, now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h