From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>,
syzbot <syzbot+83e7f982ca045ab4405c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>,
Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>,
andrii@kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/mm: Remove broken vsyscall emulation code from the page fault code
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 11:47:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wg63NPb-cEL7NTFTKN2=uM6Lygg_CcXwwDBTVCg=PeSRg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wj9=+4k+sY6hNsQy2oQA4HABNA369cBPSgBNaeRHbbTZg@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 29 Apr 2024 at 08:51, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> Well, Hilf had it go through the syzbot testing, and Jiri seems to
> have tested it on his setup too, so it looks like it's all good, and
> you can change the "Not-Yet-Signed-off-by" to be a proper sign-off
> from me.
Side note: having looked more at this, I suspect we have room for
further cleanups in this area.
In particular, I think the page fault emulation code should be moved
from do_user_addr_fault() to do_kern_addr_fault(), and the horrible
hack that is fault_in_kernel_space() should be removed (it is what now
makes a vsyscall page fault be treated as a user address, and the only
_reason_ for that is that we do the vsyscall handling in the wrong
place).
I also think that the vsyscall emulation code should just be cleaned
up - instead of looking up the system call number and then calling the
__x64_xyz() system call stub, I think we should just write out the
code in-place. That would get the SIGSEGV cases right too, and I think
it would actually clean up the code. We already do almost everything
but the (trivial) low-level ops anyway.
But I think my patch to remove the 'sig_on_uaccess_err' should just go
in first, since it fixes a real and present issue. And then if
somebody has the energy - or if it turns out that we actually need to
get the SIGSEGV siginfo details right - we can do the other cleanups.
They are mostly unrelated, but the current sig_on_uaccess_err code
just makes everything more complicated and needs to go.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-04-29 18:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-25 9:05 [syzbot] [bpf?] [trace?] possible deadlock in force_sig_info_to_task syzbot
2024-04-25 17:54 ` Jiri Olsa
2024-04-27 20:00 ` syzbot
2024-04-27 23:13 ` Hillf Danton
2024-04-28 20:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-04-28 20:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-04-28 23:23 ` Hillf Danton
2024-04-29 0:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-04-29 1:00 ` Tetsuo Handa
2024-04-29 1:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-04-29 8:00 ` [PATCH] x86/mm: Remove broken vsyscall emulation code from the page fault code Ingo Molnar
2024-04-29 13:51 ` Jiri Olsa
2024-04-29 23:30 ` Andy Lutomirski
2024-04-29 15:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-04-29 18:47 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2024-04-29 19:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-04-29 23:29 ` Andy Lutomirski
2024-04-30 0:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-04-30 6:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2024-05-01 7:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2024-04-30 14:53 ` kernel test robot
2024-04-29 10:39 ` [syzbot] [bpf?] [trace?] possible deadlock in force_sig_info_to_task Hillf Danton
2024-04-29 11:35 ` syzbot
2024-04-30 6:16 ` [tip: x86/urgent] x86/mm: Remove broken vsyscall emulation code from the page fault code tip-bot2 for Linus Torvalds
2024-05-01 7:50 ` tip-bot2 for Linus Torvalds
2024-04-29 14:17 ` [syzbot] [bpf?] [trace?] possible deadlock in force_sig_info_to_task Tetsuo Handa
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