Re: [tip:x86/mm] [x86/mm] 127960a055: WARNING:at_arch/x86/include/asm/kfence.h:#kfence_protect

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Nov 21 2022 - 06:35:09 EST


On Sun, Nov 20, 2022 at 04:40:51PM +0800, kernel test robot wrote:
>
> hi, PeterZ,
>
> we noticed this is a fix for
> "[tip:x86/mm] [x86/mm] b389949485: WARNING:at_arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c:#__change_page_attr"
> we reported before on
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/202211061748.eb591682-oliver.sang@xxxxxxxxx/
> we noticed it brought below issue which is persistent in our tests. FYI
>
>
> Greeting,
>
> FYI, we noticed WARNING:at_arch/x86/include/asm/kfence.h:#kfence_protect due to commit (built with gcc-11):
>
> commit: 127960a05548ea699a95791669e8112552eb2452 ("x86/mm: Inhibit _PAGE_NX changes from cpa_process_alias()")
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86/mm
>
> in testcase: boot
>
> on test machine: qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -cpu SandyBridge -smp 2 -m 16G
>
> caused below changes (please refer to attached dmesg/kmsg for entire log/backtrace):
>
>
> +----------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+
> | | 5ab815e377 | 127960a055 |
> +----------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+
> | WARNING:at_arch/x86/include/asm/kfence.h:#kfence_protect | 0 | 15 |
> | RIP:kfence_protect | 0 | 15 |
> | WARNING:at_mm/kfence/core.c:#kfence_protect | 0 | 15 |
> +----------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+
>
>
> If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag
> | Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@xxxxxxxxx>
> | Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202211201642.b65c9d2f-oliver.sang@xxxxxxxxx
>
>
> [ 1.269844][ T0] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [ 1.270843][ T0] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at arch/x86/include/asm/kfence.h:46 kfence_protect (arch/x86/include/asm/kfence.h:46 mm/kfence/core.c:235)

Should be fixed by:

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/41ac24c4-6c95-d946-2679-c1be2cb20536@xxxxxxxxx

I think.