Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757061Ab3JOHxs (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Oct 2013 03:53:48 -0400 Received: from mailout09.t-online.de ([194.25.134.84]:52182 "EHLO mailout09.t-online.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751684Ab3JOHxr (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Oct 2013 03:53:47 -0400 Message-ID: <525CF483.1020908@t-online.de> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 09:53:39 +0200 From: Knut Petersen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar , Frederic Weisbecker CC: "Paul E. McKenney" , Linus Torvalds , Thomas Gleixner , Greg KH , linux-kernel Subject: Re: [BUG 3.12.rc4] Oops: unable to handle kernel paging request during shutdown References: <525BD08C.2080101@t-online.de> <20131014212830.GD5790@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20131014215117.GE13538@localhost.localdomain> <20131015064025.GA22672@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20131015064025.GA22672@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ID: bLwLB6ZXZhkl7xJunZwK+N7JqrKHguneb-jmvx4fT8WDBHLVlmJWPzj3UfJQexnQn9 X-TOI-MSGID: 5ff5e3f6-24c0-467d-9e59-c5d6771c8af2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2402 Lines: 57 On 15.10.2013 08:40, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > >> I've been thinking that CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST could help. Unfortunately it's >> good to spot list APIs misuse but, if Linus is right, the problem may be >> that the list belongs to an object that has been freed, and I believe >> that won't detect such a thing. > Use-after free should be reliably detectable via CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y. Enabled. Hmm ... I think i spotted a KConfig bug. In mm/Kconfig.debug I read: config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC bool "Debug page memory allocations" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL depends on !HIBERNATION || ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC && !PPC && !SPARC depends on !KMEMCHECK select PAGE_POISONING if !ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC select PAGE_GUARD if ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC ---help--- Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages(). This results in a large slowdown, but helps to find certain types of memory corruption. For architectures which don't enable ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, fill the pages with poison patterns after free_pages() and verify the patterns before alloc_pages(). Additionally, this option cannot be enabled in combination with hibernation as that would result in incorrect warnings of memory corruption after a resume because free pages are not saved to the suspend image. Either the description or the "depends" line that includes !HIBERNATION is wrong. Maybe depends on DEBUG_KERNEL - depends on !HIBERNATION || ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC && !PPC && !SPARC + depends on !HIBERNATION && ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC && !PPC && !SPARC depends on !KMEMCHECK is correct, at least does not allow HIBERNATION and DEBUG_PAGEALLOC to be enabled simultaneously. > > A couple of years ago I wrote a list debugging beast that would catch > use-after-free mishaps (sent it to lkml too IIRC), but it was a bit > complex and I never found the time to nurse it upstream. > > Thanks, > > Ingo > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/