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| author | Henry Nestler <henry.nestler@gmail.com> | 2008-05-12 15:44:39 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-06-12 21:26:07 +0200 |
| commit | b29c701deacd5d24453127c37ed77ef851c53b8b (patch) | |
| tree | 79aed16366b49d8b6d033b696b055b46fb8f8d02 /arch/x86/mm/fault.c | |
| parent | 3703f39965a197ebd91743fc38d0f640606b8da3 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-b29c701deacd5d24453127c37ed77ef851c53b8b.tar.gz lwn-b29c701deacd5d24453127c37ed77ef851c53b8b.zip | |
x86: fix endless page faults in mount_block_root for Linux 2.6
Page faults in kernel address space between PAGE_OFFSET up to
VMALLOC_START should not try to map as vmalloc.
Fix rarely endless page faults inside mount_block_root for root
filesystem at boot time.
All 32bit kernels up to 2.6.25 can fail into this hole.
I can not present this under native linux kernel. I see, that the 64bit
has fixed the problem. I copied the same lines into 32bit part.
Recorded debugs are from coLinux kernel 2.6.22.18 (virtualisation):
http://www.henrynestler.com/colinux/testing/pfn-check-0.7.3/20080410-antinx/bug16-recursive-page-fault-endless.txt
The physicaly memory was trimmed down to 192MB to better catch the bug.
More memory gets the bug more rarely.
Details, how every x86 32bit system can fail:
Start from "mount_block_root",
http://lxr.linux.no/linux/init/do_mounts.c#L297
There the variable "fs_names" got one memory page with 4096 bytes.
Variable "p" walks through the existing file system types. The first
string is no problem.
But, with the second loop in mount_block_root the offset of "p" is not
at beginning of page, the offset is for example +9, if "reiserfs" is the
first in list.
Than calls do_mount_root, and lands in sys_mount.
Remember: Variable "type_page" contains now "fs_type+9" and not contains
a full page.
The sys_mount copies 4096 bytes with function "exact_copy_from_user()":
http://lxr.linux.no/linux/fs/namespace.c#L1540
Mostly exist pages after the buffer "fs_names+4096+9" and the page fault
handler was not called. No problem.
In the case, if the page after "fs_names+4096" is not mapped, the page
fault handler was called from http://lxr.linux.no/linux/fs/namespace.c#L1320
The do_page_fault gots an address 0xc03b4000.
It's kernel address, address >= TASK_SIZE, but not from vmalloc! It's
from "__getname()" alias "kmem_cache_alloc".
The "error_code" is 0. "vmalloc_fault" will be call:
http://lxr.linux.no/linux/arch/i386/mm/fault.c#L332
"vmalloc_fault" tryed to find the physical page for a non existing
virtual memory area. The macro "pte_present" in vmalloc_fault()
got a next page fault for 0xc0000ed0 at:
http://lxr.linux.no/linux/arch/i386/mm/fault.c#L282
No PTE exist for such virtual address. The page fault handler was trying
to sync the physical page for the PTE lockup.
This called vmalloc_fault() again for address 0xc000000, and that also
was not existing. The endless began...
In normal case the cpu would still loop with disabled interrrupts. Under
coLinux this was catched by a stack overflow inside printk debugs.
Signed-off-by: Henry Nestler <henry.nestler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/mm/fault.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c index fd7e1798c75a..8bcb6f40ccb6 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c @@ -497,6 +497,11 @@ static int vmalloc_fault(unsigned long address) unsigned long pgd_paddr; pmd_t *pmd_k; pte_t *pte_k; + + /* Make sure we are in vmalloc area */ + if (!(address >= VMALLOC_START && address < VMALLOC_END)) + return -1; + /* * Synchronize this task's top level page-table * with the 'reference' page table. |