Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752821AbdFMHRw (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jun 2017 03:17:52 -0400 Received: from mail-it0-f41.google.com ([209.85.214.41]:36632 "EHLO mail-it0-f41.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752354AbdFMHRv (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jun 2017 03:17:51 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <593F4721.7000501@huawei.com> References: <20170608194139.9250-1-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> <593F4721.7000501@huawei.com> From: Ard Biesheuvel Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 09:17:49 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] arm64: fix crash when reading /proc/kcore To: Tan Xiaojun , Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Mark Rutland , jolsa@kernel.org, Zhong Jiang , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , Laura Abbott Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1758 Lines: 48 On 13 June 2017 at 04:00, Tan Xiaojun wrote: > On 2017/6/9 3:41, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >> This is a follow-up to patches from zhonjiang [0] and myself [1] that aim >> to solve a problem in the kcore code, which gets confused by the presence >> of block mappings in the vmalloc region. >> >> While fixing the crash is quite straight forward [2], we need to tweak >> the kcore code itself to ensure that it operates correctly on arm64. >> Fortunately, we can achieve this with two very simple changes: >> >> - replace a call to is_vmalloc_or_module_addr() in read_kcore() with a >> comparison of the kclist type field (#1) >> - enable CONFIG_ARCH_PROC_KCORE_TEXT for arm64 (#2) >> >> [0] http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=149632393629295&w=2 >> [1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=149685966530180&w=2 >> [2] http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=149694975123959&w=2 >> >> Ard Biesheuvel (2): >> fs/proc: kcore: use kcore_list type to check for vmalloc/module >> address >> arm64: mm: select CONFIG_ARCH_PROC_KCORE_TEXT >> >> arch/arm64/Kconfig | 3 +++ >> fs/proc/kcore.c | 2 +- >> 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) >> > > Reported-by: Tan Xiaojun > Tested-by: Tan Xiaojun > > Thank you for working on this problem which I reported two months ago. > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9687319/ > > I tested, and it really solved the problem in Hisilicon D02/D03/D05. > Thank you. fs/proc/kcore.c does not have a maintainer according to get_maintainer.pl but it would be nice if we could get an ack on patch #1 from someone who is not a usual ARM suspect. Patch #1 is here: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=149695092424288&w=2 Ingo, Andrew, Jiri, any objections?