Stephen Powell reported the following crash on a z890 machine:
Kernel BUG at
00000000001219d0 [verbose debug info unavailable]
illegal operation: 0001 ilc:3 [#1] SMP
Krnl PSW :
0704e00180000000 00000000001219d0 (init_cache_level+0x38/0xe0)
R:0 T:1 IO:1 EX:1 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:3 CC:2 PM:0 EA:3
Krnl Code:
00000000001219c2:
a7840056 brc 8,121a6e
00000000001219c6:
a7190000 lghi %r1,0
#
00000000001219ca:
eb101000004c ecag %r1,%r0,0(%r1)
>
00000000001219d0:
a7390000 lghi %r3,0
00000000001219d4:
e310f0a00024 stg %r1,160(%r15)
00000000001219da:
a7080000 lhi %r0,0
00000000001219de:
a7b9f000 lghi %r11,-4096
00000000001219e2:
c0a0002899d9 larl %r10,634d94
Call Trace:
[<
0000000000478ee2>] detect_cache_attributes+0x2a/0x2b8
[<
000000000097c9b0>] cacheinfo_sysfs_init+0x60/0xc8
[<
00000000001001c0>] do_one_initcall+0x98/0x1c8
[<
000000000094fdc2>] kernel_init_freeable+0x212/0x2d8
[<
000000000062352e>] kernel_init+0x26/0x118
[<
000000000062fd2e>] kernel_thread_starter+0x6/0xc
The illegal operation was executed because of a missing facility check,
which should have made sure that the ECAG execution would only be executed
on machines which have the general-instructions-extension facility
installed.
Reported-and-tested-by: Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.0+
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
union cache_topology ct;
enum cache_type ctype;
+ if (!test_facility(34))
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
if (!this_cpu_ci)
return -EINVAL;
ct.raw = ecag(EXTRACT_TOPOLOGY, 0, 0);