From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To: Matt Corallo <kernel@bluematt.me>,
"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [Bug 202149] New: NULL Pointer Dereference in __split_huge_pmd on PPC64LE
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 14:58:25 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87va1ld7oe.fsf@concordia.ellerman.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CCDBD6B9-31CD-4B94-AA8F-9BEF1C133AED@bluematt.me>
Matt Corallo <kernel@bluematt.me> writes:
> Hey, sorry for the delay on this. I had some apparently-unrelated
> hangs that I believe were due to mpt3sas instability, and at the risk
> of speaking too soon for a bug I couldn't reliably reproduce, this
> patch appears to have resolved it, thanks!
Thanks.
For the archives it went upstream in a slightly different form as:
579b9239c1f3 ("powerpc/radix: Fix kernel crash with mremap()")
https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/579b9239c1f3
cheers
>> On Jan 21, 2019, at 07:35, Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Can you test this patch?
>>
>> From e511e79af9a314854848ea8fda9dfa6d7e07c5e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
>> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 16:43:17 +0530
>> Subject: [PATCH] arch/powerpc/radix: Fix kernel crash with mremap
>>
>> With support for split pmd lock, we use pmd page pmd_huge_pte pointer to store
>> the deposited page table. In those config when we move page tables we need to
>> make sure we move the depoisted page table to the right pmd page. Otherwise this
>> can result in crash when we withdraw of deposited page table because we can find
>> the pmd_huge_pte NULL.
>>
>> c0000000004a1230 __split_huge_pmd+0x1070/0x1940
>> c0000000004a0ff4 __split_huge_pmd+0xe34/0x1940 (unreliable)
>> c0000000004a4000 vma_adjust_trans_huge+0x110/0x1c0
>> c00000000042fe04 __vma_adjust+0x2b4/0x9b0
>> c0000000004316e8 __split_vma+0x1b8/0x280
>> c00000000043192c __do_munmap+0x13c/0x550
>> c000000000439390 sys_mremap+0x220/0x7e0
>> c00000000000b488 system_call+0x5c/0x70
>>
>> Fixes: 675d995297d4 ("powerpc/book3s64: Enable split pmd ptlock.")
>> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
>> ---
>> arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h | 2 --
>> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h
>> index 92eaea164700..86e62384256d 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h
>> @@ -1262,8 +1262,6 @@ static inline int pmd_move_must_withdraw(struct spinlock *new_pmd_ptl,
>> struct spinlock *old_pmd_ptl,
>> struct vm_area_struct *vma)
>> {
>> - if (radix_enabled())
>> - return false;
>> /*
>> * Archs like ppc64 use pgtable to store per pmd
>> * specific information. So when we switch the pmd,
>> --
>> 2.20.1
>>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-15 4:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <bug-202149-27@https.bugzilla.kernel.org/>
2019-01-05 1:04 ` [Bug 202149] New: NULL Pointer Dereference in __split_huge_pmd on PPC64LE Andrew Morton
2019-01-08 7:15 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2019-01-08 19:17 ` Matt Corallo
2019-01-09 11:50 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2019-01-09 13:38 ` Matt Corallo
2019-01-21 12:35 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2019-02-14 20:17 ` Matt Corallo
2019-02-15 3:58 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
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