head -r538966 on OrangePi+ 2ed: boot loader crashes when USB drive is present at power-on/boot: its a misaligned access by code from -r354746
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 19 08:20:10 UTC 2020
[I built with -DDEBUG -DDISK_DEBUG -DPART_DEBUG and show
with some extra output as well. It shows that a misaligned
access causes the crash. The access in question is from
head -r354746 code additions.]
On 2020-Mar-18, at 13:36, Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Without a USB drive present at power-on or
> boot, the OPi+2e boots fine. (The USB drives
> involved have a partition holding a ufs file
> system and a partition holding a swap/aging
> space.)
>
> In all cases below, /boot/ is from the microsd
> card. But the intended configuration is for
> vfs.root.mountfrom to be used to direct the
> stages after kernel-booting to the USB drive.
>
> The output sequence related to the crash when
> the USB drive is present looks like:
>
> QUOTE
> . . .
> END QUOTE
I'm replacing the original quote with
better information.
First I quote the definition of dos_partition
for reference:
struct dos_partition {
unsigned char dp_flag; /* bootstrap flags */
unsigned char dp_shd; /* starting head */
unsigned char dp_ssect; /* starting sector */
unsigned char dp_scyl; /* starting cylinder */
unsigned char dp_typ; /* partition type */
unsigned char dp_ehd; /* end head */
unsigned char dp_esect; /* end sector */
unsigned char dp_ecyl; /* end cylinder */
uint32_t dp_start; /* absolute starting sector number */
uint32_t dp_size; /* partition size in sectors */
};
Note that access to dp_start or dp_size
requires address%4==0 alignment but the
other fields do not. This is important for
&dp[i].dp_start reported in the below (and
then dp[i].dp_start is accessed in the code).
I also had it report dp, which shows that
dp has dp%4!=0 as well.
Here is with -DDEBUG and -DDISK_DEBUG -DPART_DEBUG
in place for the code (with some extra debug output
added):
FreeBSD/armv7 U-Boot loader, Revision 1.3
signature:
version = 1
checksum = 0x98de198b
sc entry = 0xbdf8cb01
addresses info:
_etext (sdata) = 0x4204fdb4
_edata = 0x4205ebb8
__sbss_start = 0x4205ec28
__sbss_end = 0x4205ec28
__sbss_start = 0x4205ec28
_end = 0x42062aa0
syscall entry = 0xbdf8cb01
DRAM: 2048MB
Number of U-Boot devices: 2
U-Boot env: loaderdev not set, will probe all devices.
stor_init(): storage devices found: 2
Found U-Boot device: disk
Probing all <unknown> devices...
Checking unit=0 slice=<auto> partition=<auto>...disk_open: disk0s0: unit 0, slice 0, partition -2 => 0x420631c0
stor_readdev(): reading blk=0 size=1 @ 0x420633c0
stor_readdev(): reading blk=64 size=1 @ 0x420636c0
stor_readdev(): reading blk=1 size=1 @ 0x420636c0
ptable_open: BEFORE NDOSPART loop #1
ptable_open: dp=0x4206357e
ptable_open: IN NDOSPART loop #1 after 1st if
ptable_open: IN NDOSPART loop #1: &dp[i].dp_start=0x42063586
data abort
pc : [<42009350>] lr : [<42009348>]
reloc pc : [<ce07d350>] lr : [<ce07d348>]
sp : b9f649e8 ip : 4205e200 fp : b9f64a18
r10: 42063640 r9 : b9f64a50 r8 : 420633c0
r7 : 420636c0 r6 : 4200818c r5 : 4205cd95 r4 : 42063586
r3 : bdf8cdf7 r2 : 0000000a r1 : 01c28000 r0 : 000000ee
Flags: nZCv IRQs off FIQs off Mode SVC_32
Code: e08f0000 eb0114af e5d801c2 e35000ee (05940000)
Resetting CPU ...
resetting ...
My extra messages are from:
# svnlite diff /usr/src/stand/common/part.c
Index: /usr/src/stand/common/part.c
===================================================================
--- /usr/src/stand/common/part.c (revision 358966)
+++ /usr/src/stand/common/part.c (working copy)
@@ -715,18 +715,26 @@
* start sector 1. After DOSPTYP_PMBR, there may be other partitions.
* UEFI compliant PMBR has no other partitions.
*/
+ DPRINTF("BEFORE NDOSPART loop #1");
+ DPRINTF("dp=%p", (void*)dp);
for (i = 0; i < NDOSPART; i++) {
if (dp[i].dp_flag != 0 && dp[i].dp_flag != 0x80) {
DPRINTF("invalid partition flag %x", dp[i].dp_flag);
goto out;
}
+ DPRINTF("IN NDOSPART loop #1 after 1st if");
+ DPRINTF("IN NDOSPART loop #1: &dp[i].dp_start=%p", (void*)&dp[i].dp_start);
#ifdef LOADER_GPT_SUPPORT
if (dp[i].dp_typ == DOSPTYP_PMBR && dp[i].dp_start == 1) {
+ DPRINTF("BEFORE table->type assignment for PMBR detected");
+ DPRINTF("table=%p for PMBR detected", (void*)table);
table->type = PTABLE_GPT;
DPRINTF("PMBR detected");
}
+ DPRINTF("IN NDOSPART loop #1 after 2nd if");
#endif
}
+ DPRINTF("AFTER NDOSPART loop #1");
#ifdef LOADER_GPT_SUPPORT
if (table->type == PTABLE_GPT) {
table = ptable_gptread(table, dev, dread);
Note that "IN NDOSPART loop #1 after 2nd if" is
never reported. Nor is "BEFORE table->type
assignment for PMBR detected". The condition in
the 2nd if never completes its evaluation because
of the misaligned access involved in dp[i].dp_start
being evaluated.
> Stopping it earlier and using:
>
> setenv loaderdev mmc 0
> boot
>
> avoids the problem because it avoids "probing" the
> USB drive at the stage indicated above.
Yep: The above loop is then not evaluated.
> But the
> boot then actually uses:
>
> vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/gpt/BPIM3root"
>
> in the /boot/loader.conf on the microsd card.
> ufs:/dev/gpt/BPIM3root is a reference to the ufs
> partition on the USB media. (With the mountfrom
> commented out the microsd card is bootable by
> itself.) So later the USB drive is put to use
> successfully when the initial probing is avoided.
>
> Looking in the /usr/src/stand/uboot/common/main.c
> code shows:
>
> static int
> probe_disks(int devidx, int load_type, int load_unit, int load_slice,
> int load_partition)
> {
> . . .
> if (load_unit == -1) {
> printf(" Probing all %s devices...\n", device_typename(load_type));
> /* Try each disk of given type in succession until one works. */
> for (unit = 0; unit < UB_MAX_DEV; unit++) {
> currdev.dd.d_unit = uboot_diskgetunit(load_type, unit);
> if (currdev.dd.d_unit == -1)
> break;
> print_disk_probe_info();
> open_result = devsw[devidx]->dv_open(&f, &currdev);
> if (open_result == 0) {
> printf(" good.\n");
> return (0);
> }
> printf("\n");
> }
> return (-1);
> }
> . . .
> }
>
> So it appears that the crash is during the code involved
> for the line:
>
> open_result = devsw[devidx]->dv_open(&f, &currdev);
>
> Note that the boot attempt reported "Probing all <unknown>
> devices..." so device_typename(load_type) came up with
> "<unknown>". (I've no clue if that is significant to the
> issue or not.)
Looks like the below paragraph was junk. Sorry.
> It appeared that /usr/src/stand/usb/storage/umass_loader.c
> and its umass_disk_open and umass_disk_open_sub might
> be involved and then code from the likes of:
> /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/ --such as from usb_msctest.c for
> usb_msc_read_capacity. (I stopped looking around
> there: well outside areas I know how to interpret.)
> For reference, I used the OPi+2e u-boot material from
> my poudriere-devel based port builds:
>
> # ls -ldT /usr/local/share/u-boot/u-boot-orangepi-plus-2e/*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 503 Oct 26 19:12:16 2019 /usr/local/share/u-boot/u-boot-orangepi-plus-2e/README
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 199 Oct 26 19:12:16 2019 /usr/local/share/u-boot/u-boot-orangepi-plus-2e/boot.scr
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 66 Oct 26 19:12:16 2019 /usr/local/share/u-boot/u-boot-orangepi-plus-2e/metadata
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 471250 Oct 26 19:12:16 2019 /usr/local/share/u-boot/u-boot-orangepi-plus-2e/u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin
>
>
>
> (The USB drives are USB SSDs.)
===
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com
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