260364d112
The semantics of pfn_valid() is to check presence of the memory map for a
PFN and not whether a PFN is covered by the linear map. The memory map
may be present for NOMAP memory regions, but they won't be mapped in the
linear mapping. Accessing such regions via __va() when they are
memremap()'ed will cause a crash.
On v5.4.y the crash happens on qemu-arm with UEFI [1]:
<1>[ 0.084476] 8<--- cut here ---
<1>[ 0.084595] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address dfb76000
<1>[ 0.084938] pgd = (ptrval)
<1>[ 0.085038] [dfb76000] *pgd=5f7fe801, *pte=00000000, *ppte=00000000
...
<4>[ 0.093923] [<c0ed6ce8>] (memcpy) from [<c16a06f8>] (dmi_setup+0x60/0x418)
<4>[ 0.094204] [<c16a06f8>] (dmi_setup) from [<c16a38d4>] (arm_dmi_init+0x8/0x10)
<4>[ 0.094408] [<c16a38d4>] (arm_dmi_init) from [<c0302e9c>] (do_one_initcall+0x50/0x228)
<4>[ 0.094619] [<c0302e9c>] (do_one_initcall) from [<c16011e4>] (kernel_init_freeable+0x15c/0x1f8)
<4>[ 0.094841] [<c16011e4>] (kernel_init_freeable) from [<c0f028cc>] (kernel_init+0x8/0x10c)
<4>[ 0.095057] [<c0f028cc>] (kernel_init) from [<c03010e8>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x2c)
On kernels v5.10.y and newer the same crash won't reproduce on ARM because
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.