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Enabling any of the powerpc:rtas_* tracepoints at boot is likely to
result in an oops on RTAS platforms. For example, booting a QEMU
pseries model with 'trace_event=powerpc:rtas_input' in the command
line leads to:
BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x00000008
Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 7 [#1]
NIP [c00000000004231c] do_enter_rtas+0x1bc/0x460
LR [c00000000004231c] do_enter_rtas+0x1bc/0x460
Call Trace:
do_enter_rtas+0x1bc/0x460 (unreliable)
rtas_call+0x22c/0x4a0
rtas_get_boot_time+0x80/0x14c
read_persistent_clock64+0x124/0x150
read_persistent_wall_and_boot_offset+0x28/0x58
timekeeping_init+0x70/0x348
start_kernel+0xa0c/0xc1c
start_here_common+0x1c/0x20
(This is preceded by a warning for the failed lookup in
rtas_token_to_function().)
This happens when __do_enter_rtas_trace() attempts a token to function
descriptor lookup before the xarray containing the mappings has been
set up.
Fall back to linear scan of the table if rtas_token_to_function_xarray
is empty.
Fixes: 24098f580e ("powerpc/rtas: add tracepoints around RTAS entry")
Reviewed-by: "Aneesh Kumar K.V (IBM)" <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20231212-papr-sys_rtas-vs-lockdown-v6-3-e9eafd0c8c6c@linux.ibm.com
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