Breno Leitao reports that arm64 emits the following warning:
[ 58.896157] virt_to_phys used for non-linear address: 000000009fea9737
(__start_BTF+0x0/0x685530)
[ 23.988669] WARNING: CPU: 25 PID: 1442 at arch/arm64/mm/physaddr.c:15
__virt_to_phys (arch/arm64/mm/physaddr.c:?)
...
[ 24.075371] Tainted: [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE, [N]=TEST
[ 24.080276] Hardware name: Quanta S7GM 20S7GCU0010/S7G MB (CG1), BIOS 3D22
07/03/2024
[ 24.088295] pstate: 63400009 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO +TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[ 24.098440] pc : __virt_to_phys (arch/arm64/mm/physaddr.c:?)
[ 24.105398] lr : __virt_to_phys (arch/arm64/mm/physaddr.c:?)
...
[ 24.197257] Call trace:
[ 24.199761] __virt_to_phys (arch/arm64/mm/physaddr.c:?) (P)
[ 24.206883] btf_sysfs_vmlinux_mmap (kernel/bpf/sysfs_btf.c:27)
[ 24.214264] sysfs_kf_bin_mmap (fs/sysfs/file.c:179)
[ 24.218536] kernfs_fop_mmap (fs/kernfs/file.c:462)
[ 24.222461] mmap_region (./include/linux/fs.h:? mm/internal.h:167
mm/vma.c:2405 mm/vma.c:2467 mm/vma.c:2622 mm/vma.c:2692)
It seems that the memory layout on arm64 maps the kernel image in vmalloc space
which is different than x86. This makes virt_to_phys emit the warning.
Fix this by translating the address using __pa_symbol as suggested by
Breno instead.
Reported-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/g2gqhkunbu43awrofzqb4cs4sxkxg2i4eud6p4qziwrdh67q4g@mtw3d3aqfgmb/
Signed-off-by: Lorenz Bauer <lmb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian>
Fixes: a539e2a6d51d ("btf: Allow mmap of vmlinux btf")
---
kernel/bpf/sysfs_btf.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/sysfs_btf.c b/kernel/bpf/sysfs_btf.c
index 941d0d2427e3a2d27e8f1cff7b6424d0d41817c1..8e61dc555415aafd9e8f80a3408b668fd5057cb3 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/sysfs_btf.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/sysfs_btf.c
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ static int btf_sysfs_vmlinux_mmap(struct file *filp, struct kobject *kobj,
{
unsigned long pages = PAGE_ALIGN(attr->size) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
size_t vm_size = vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start;
- phys_addr_t addr = virt_to_phys(__start_BTF);
+ phys_addr_t addr = __pa_symbol(__start_BTF);
unsigned long pfn = addr >> PAGE_SHIFT;
if (attr->private != __start_BTF || !PAGE_ALIGNED(addr))
---
base-commit: af90e85307241ec495c2de85854cd2e35a4df16b
change-id: 20250717-vmlinux-mmap-pa-symbol-0d55cd0b32c0
Best regards,
--
Lorenz Bauer <lmb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
