From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.3 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A9BFECE587 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2019 16:02:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kanga.kvack.org (kanga.kvack.org [205.233.56.17]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E54D721835 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2019 16:02:45 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org E54D721835 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=linutronix.de Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) id 94A468E0005; Mon, 14 Oct 2019 12:02:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix, from userid 40) id 8D4048E0001; Mon, 14 Oct 2019 12:02:45 -0400 (EDT) X-Delivered-To: int-list-linux-mm@kvack.org Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix, from userid 63042) id 7C1B58E0005; Mon, 14 Oct 2019 12:02:45 -0400 (EDT) X-Delivered-To: linux-mm@kvack.org Received: from forelay.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0224.hostedemail.com [216.40.44.224]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 586608E0001 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2019 12:02:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtpin29.hostedemail.com (10.5.19.251.rfc1918.com [10.5.19.251]) by forelay05.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with SMTP id E7FE3181AC9CC for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2019 16:02:44 +0000 (UTC) X-FDA: 76042858248.29.boy55_8c597a62af115 X-HE-Tag: boy55_8c597a62af115 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 3392 Received: from Galois.linutronix.de (Galois.linutronix.de [193.142.43.55]) by imf33.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2019 16:02:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigeasy by Galois.linutronix.de with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1iK2nu-0002uy-R5; Mon, 14 Oct 2019 18:02:38 +0200 Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 18:02:38 +0200 From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: Frank Rowand , Peter Zijlstra , Thomas Gleixner , Steven Rostedt Subject: [PATCH RT] Revert "ARM: Initialize split page table locks for vector page" Message-ID: <20191014160238.enawbbfcxnbdrlch@linutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: NeoMutt/20180716 X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: I'm dropping this patch, with its original description: |ARM: Initialize split page table locks for vector page | |Without this patch, ARM can not use SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS if |PREEMPT_RT_FULL=y because vectors_user_mapping() creates a |VM_ALWAYSDUMP mapping of the vector page (address 0xffff0000), but no |ptl->lock has been allocated for the page. An attempt to coredump |that page will result in a kernel NULL pointer dereference when |follow_page() attempts to lock the page. | |The call tree to the NULL pointer dereference is: | | do_notify_resume() | get_signal_to_deliver() | do_coredump() | elf_core_dump() | get_dump_page() | __get_user_pages() | follow_page() | pte_offset_map_lock() <----- a #define | ... | rt_spin_lock() | |The underlying problem is exposed by mm-shrink-the-page-frame-to-rt-size.patch. The patch named mm-shrink-the-page-frame-to-rt-size.patch was dropped from the RT queue once the SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS feature (in a slightly different shape) went upstream (somewhere between v3.12 and v3.14). I can see that the patch still allocates a lock which wasn't there before. However I can't trigger a kernel oops like described in the patch by triggering a coredump. --- arch/arm/kernel/process.c | 24 ------------------------ 1 file changed, 24 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/process.c b/arch/arm/kernel/process.c index 1041300022177..f934a6739fc05 100644 --- a/arch/arm/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/process.c @@ -325,30 +325,6 @@ unsigned long arch_randomize_brk(struct mm_struct *mm) } #ifdef CONFIG_MMU -/* - * CONFIG_SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS results in a page->ptl lock. If the lock is not - * initialized by pgtable_page_ctor() then a coredump of the vector page will - * fail. - */ -static int __init vectors_user_mapping_init_page(void) -{ - struct page *page; - unsigned long addr = 0xffff0000; - pgd_t *pgd; - pud_t *pud; - pmd_t *pmd; - - pgd = pgd_offset_k(addr); - pud = pud_offset(pgd, addr); - pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr); - page = pmd_page(*(pmd)); - - pgtable_page_ctor(page); - - return 0; -} -late_initcall(vectors_user_mapping_init_page); - #ifdef CONFIG_KUSER_HELPERS /* * The vectors page is always readable from user space for the -- 2.23.0