From: Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy@c-s.fr
commit b45ba4a51cde29b2939365ef0c07ad34c8321789 upstream.
Commit 51c3c62b58b3 ("powerpc: Avoid code patching freed init sections") accesses 'init_mem_is_free' flag too early, before the kernel is relocated. This provokes early boot failure (before the console is active).
As it is not necessary to do this verification that early, this patch moves the test into patch_instruction() instead of __patch_instruction().
This modification also has the advantage of avoiding unnecessary remappings.
Fixes: 51c3c62b58b3 ("powerpc: Avoid code patching freed init sections") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.13+ Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy@c-s.fr Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ int patch_instruction(unsigned int *addr int err;
/* Make sure we aren't patching a freed init section */ - if (init_mem_is_free && init_section_contains(addr, 4)) { + if (*PTRRELOC(&init_mem_is_free) && init_section_contains(addr, 4)) { pr_debug("Skipping init section patching addr: 0x%px\n", addr); return 0; }