Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752078AbaAOPdg (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jan 2014 10:33:36 -0500 Received: from g4t0017.houston.hp.com ([15.201.24.20]:8559 "EHLO g4t0017.houston.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751502AbaAOPde (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jan 2014 10:33:34 -0500 Message-ID: <52D6AA38.2040606@hp.com> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 10:33:12 -0500 From: Waiman Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.12) Gecko/20130109 Thunderbird/10.0.12 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Zijlstra CC: Andy Lutomirski , Ingo Molnar , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Aswin Chandramouleeswaran , Scott J Norton , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: SIGSEGV when using "perf record -g" with 3.13-rc* kernel References: <52D011C9.7000209@hp.com> <20140110165822.GI7572@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20140110170223.GD8224@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20140110174141.GE8224@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20140110200603.GJ7572@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net> In-Reply-To: <20140110200603.GJ7572@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 01/10/2014 03:06 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > :-) > > Something like this perhaps? > > --- > Subject: x86, mm: Allow double faults from interrupts > > Waiman managed to trigger a PMI while in a emulate_vsyscall() fault, the > PMI in turn managed to trigger a fault while obtaining a stack trace. > This triggered the double fault logic and killed the process dead. > > Fix this by explicitly excluding interrupts from the double fault logic. > > Reported-by: Waiman Long > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra > --- > arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c > index 9ff85bb8dd69..4c8e32986aad 100644 > --- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c > +++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c > @@ -641,6 +641,20 @@ no_context(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code, > > /* Are we prepared to handle this kernel fault? */ > if (fixup_exception(regs)) { > + /* > + * Any interrupt that takes a fault gets the fixup. This > + * makes the below double fault logic only apply to a > + * task double faulting from task context. > + */ > + if (in_interrupt()) > + return; > + > + /* > + * Per the above we're !in_interrupt(), aka. task context. > + * > + * In this case we need to make sure we're not double faulting > + * through the emulate_vsyscall() logic. > + */ > if (current_thread_info()->sig_on_uaccess_error&& signal) { > tsk->thread.trap_nr = X86_TRAP_PF; > tsk->thread.error_code = error_code | PF_USER; > @@ -649,6 +663,10 @@ no_context(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code, > /* XXX: hwpoison faults will set the wrong code. */ > force_sig_info_fault(signal, si_code, address, tsk, 0); > } > + > + /* > + * Barring that, we can do the fixup and be happy. > + */ > return; > } > Are you going to send out an official patch to fix this problem? I really like to see it merged into 3.13 before it is released. -Longman -- 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/