From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
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Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Crash in MM code in v4.4.y, v4.9.y with TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE enabled
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 17:25:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFw6KDEts1bk7F-HYVn_dSuFQHZZh89Ydqh1rFn-c5V+eQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180817222733.GA18575@roeck-us.net>
On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 3:27 PM Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
>
> [ 6.649970] random: crng init done
> [ 6.689002] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffeafffa1a0020
Hmm. Lots of bits set.
> [ 6.689082] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8116ba10>] [<ffffffff8116ba10>] page_remove_rmap+0x10/0x230
> [ 6.689082] RSP: 0018:ffffc900007abc18 EFLAGS: 00000296
> [ 6.689082] RAX: ffffea0005e58000 RBX: ffffeafffa1a0000 RCX: 0000000020200000
> [ 6.689082] RDX: 00003fffffe00000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffffeafffa1a0000
Is that RDX value the same value as PHYSICAL_PMD_PAGE_MASK?
If I did my math right, it would be, if your CPU has 46 bits of
physical memory. Might that be the case?
The reason I mention that is because we had the bug with spurious
inversion of the zero pte/pmd, fixed by
f19f5c49bbc3 ("x86/speculation/l1tf: Exempt zeroed PTEs from inversion")
and that would make a zeroed pmd entry be inverted by
PHYSICAL_PMD_PAGE_MASK, and then you get odd garbage page pointers
etc.
Maybe. I could have gotten the math wrong too, but it sounds like the
register contents _potentially_ might match up with something like
this, and then we'd zap a bogus hugepage because of some confusion.
Although then I'd have expected the bisection to hit
"x86/speculation/l1tf: Invert all not present mappings" instead of the
one you hit, so I don't know.
Plus I'd have expected the problem to have been in mainline too, and
apparently it's just the 4.4 and 4.9 backports.
Your test-case does have mprotect with PROT_NONE. Which together with
that mask that *might* be PHYSICAL_PMD_PAGE_MASK makes me think it
might be related.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-18 0:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-17 22:27 Crash in MM code in v4.4.y, v4.9.y with TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE enabled Guenter Roeck
2018-08-17 22:39 ` Crash in MM code in v4.4.y, v4.9.y with TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE enabledg Andi Kleen
2018-08-17 22:47 ` Guenter Roeck
2018-08-18 0:25 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2018-08-18 0:44 ` Crash in MM code in v4.4.y, v4.9.y with TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE enabled Guenter Roeck
2018-08-18 2:46 ` Andi Kleen
2018-08-20 16:29 ` Michal Hocko
2018-08-20 18:03 ` Andi Kleen
2018-08-20 19:12 ` Michal Hocko
2018-08-20 20:18 ` Andi Kleen
2018-08-21 13:58 ` Guenter Roeck
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