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>
This patch renames VM_MASK to X86_VM_MASK (which
in turn defined as alias to X86_EFLAGS_VM) to better
distinguish from virtual memory flags. We can't just
use X86_EFLAGS_VM instead because it is also used
for conditional compilation
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Linus noticed a second bug and an uncleanliness:
- we'd return on any instruction fetch fault
- we'd use both the value of 16 and the PF_INSTR symbol which are
the same and make no sense
the cleanup nicely unifies this piece of logic.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
some early Athlon XP's and Opterons generate bogus faults on prefetch
instructions. The workaround for this regressed over .24 - reinstate it.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
dump_pagetable() can now become static.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
lockdep just caught this one:
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[ INFO: inconsistent lock state ]
2.6.24 #38
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inconsistent {in-softirq-W} -> {softirq-on-W} usage.
swapper/1 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes:
(pgd_lock){-+..}, at: [<ffffffff8022a9ea>] mm_init+0x1da/0x250
{in-softirq-W} state was registered at:
[<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
irq event stamp: 394559
hardirqs last enabled at (394559): [<ffffffff80267f0a>] get_page_from_freelist+0x30a/0x4c0
hardirqs last disabled at (394558): [<ffffffff80267d25>] get_page_from_freelist+0x125/0x4c0
softirqs last enabled at (393952): [<ffffffff80232f8e>] __do_softirq+0xce/0xe0
softirqs last disabled at (393945): [<ffffffff8020c57c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
other info that might help us debug this:
no locks held by swapper/1.
stack backtrace:
Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.24 #38
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8024e1fb>] print_usage_bug+0x18b/0x190
[<ffffffff8024f55d>] mark_lock+0x53d/0x560
[<ffffffff8024fffa>] __lock_acquire+0x3ca/0xed0
[<ffffffff80250ba8>] lock_acquire+0xa8/0xe0
[<ffffffff8022a9ea>] ? mm_init+0x1da/0x250
[<ffffffff809bcd10>] _spin_lock+0x30/0x70
[<ffffffff8022a9ea>] mm_init+0x1da/0x250
[<ffffffff8022aa99>] mm_alloc+0x39/0x50
[<ffffffff8028b95a>] bprm_mm_init+0x2a/0x1a0
[<ffffffff8028d12b>] do_execve+0x7b/0x220
[<ffffffff80209776>] sys_execve+0x46/0x70
[<ffffffff8020c214>] kernel_execve+0x64/0xd0
[<ffffffff8020901e>] ? _stext+0x1e/0x20
[<ffffffff802090ba>] init_post+0x9a/0xf0
[<ffffffff809bc5f6>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x35/0x3a
[<ffffffff8024f75a>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xba/0xd0
[<ffffffff8020c1a8>] ? child_rip+0xa/0x12
[<ffffffff8020bcbc>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x44
[<ffffffff8020c19e>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x12
turns out that pgd_lock has been used on 64-bit x86 in an irq-unsafe
way for almost two years, since commit 8c914cb704.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
In very rare cases, on certain CPUs, we could end up in the spurious
fault handler and ignore a large pud/pmd mapping. The resulting pte
pointer points into the mapped physical space and dereferencing it
will fault recursively.
Make the code aware of large mappings and do the permission check
on the pmd/pud entry, when a large pud/pmd mapping is detected.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Use a standard list threaded through page->lru for maintaining the pgd
list on PAE. This is the same as 64-bit, and seems saner than using a
non-standard list via page->index.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The change from current to tsk in do_page_fault is safe as
this is set at the very beginning of the function.
Removes a likely() annotation from the 64-bit version, this
could have instead been added to 32-bit.
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
When changing a kernel page from RO->RW, it's OK to leave stale TLB
entries around, since doing a global flush is expensive and they pose
no security problem. They can, however, generate a spurious fault,
which we should catch and simply return from (which will have the
side-effect of reloading the TLB to the current PTE).
This can occur when running under Xen, because it frequently changes
kernel pages from RW->RO->RW to implement Xen's pagetable semantics.
It could also occur when using CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, since it avoids
doing a global TLB flush after changing page permissions.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
On !PAE 32-bit, _PAGE_NX will be 0, making is_prefetch always
return early. The test is sufficient on PAE as __supported_pte_mask
is updated in the same places as nx_enabled in init_32.c which also
takes disable_nx into account.
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Unify includes in moved fault.c.
Modify Makefiles to pick up unified file.
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
