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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: ldv@altlinux.org, hch@lst.de, khalid.aziz@oracle.com,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, matorola@gmail.com,
	sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/16] sparc64: use the generic get_user_pages_fast code
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 14:43:36 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190718.144336.350349509076783997.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wgjmt2i37nn9v+nGC0m8-DdLBMEs=NC=TV-u+9XAzA61g@mail.gmail.com>

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 17:17:16 -0700

> From the oops, I assume that the problem is that get_user_pages_fast()
> returned an invalid page, causing the bad access later in
> get_futex_key().

That's correct.  It's the first deref of page that oops's.


> But that's odd too, considering that get_user_pages_fast() had
> already accessed the page (both for looking up the head, and for
> then doing things like SetPageReferenced(page)).

Even the huge page cases all do that dereference as well, so it is
indeed a mystery how the pointer works inside of get_user_pages_fast()
but becomes garbage in the caller.

This page pointer sits on the stack, so maybe something stores garbage
there meanwhile.  Maybe the issue is even compiler dependent.

I'll keep looking over the changes made here for clues.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-07-18 21:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-25 14:36 switch the remaining architectures to use generic GUP v4 Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-25 14:37 ` [PATCH 01/16] mm: use untagged_addr() for get_user_pages_fast addresses Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-25 14:37 ` [PATCH 02/16] mm: simplify gup_fast_permitted Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-25 14:37 ` [PATCH 03/16] mm: lift the x86_32 PAE version of gup_get_pte to common code Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-25 14:37 ` [PATCH 04/16] MIPS: use the generic get_user_pages_fast code Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-29 14:37   ` Guenter Roeck
2019-06-25 14:37 ` [PATCH 05/16] sh: add the missing pud_page definition Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-25 14:37 ` [PATCH 06/16] sh: use the generic get_user_pages_fast code Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-29 15:15   ` Guenter Roeck
2019-06-25 14:37 ` [PATCH 07/16] sparc64: add the missing pgd_page definition Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-25 14:37 ` [PATCH 08/16] sparc64: define untagged_addr() Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-25 14:37 ` [PATCH 09/16] sparc64: use the generic get_user_pages_fast code Christoph Hellwig
2019-07-17 21:59   ` Dmitry V. Levin
2019-07-17 22:04     ` Linus Torvalds
2019-07-17 23:30       ` Dmitry V. Levin
2019-07-18  0:17         ` Linus Torvalds
2019-07-18  1:21           ` David Miller
2019-07-18 21:43           ` David Miller [this message]
2019-07-18 21:14     ` David Miller
2019-07-19  6:00       ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-07-24 19:32       ` Anatoly Pugachev
2019-07-24 20:13         ` David Miller
2019-07-25 18:33           ` Anatoly Pugachev
2019-07-25 22:52             ` David Miller
2019-07-28  2:09             ` David Miller
2019-07-28 20:00               ` Anatoly Pugachev
2019-07-26 17:58     ` Khalid Aziz
2019-08-09 19:59     ` Anatoly Pugachev
2019-08-10  7:17       ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-10 19:36         ` Mikael Pettersson
2019-08-11 20:30           ` Anatoly Pugachev
2019-06-25 14:37 ` [PATCH 10/16] mm: rename CONFIG_HAVE_GENERIC_GUP to CONFIG_HAVE_FAST_GUP Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-25 14:37 ` [PATCH 11/16] mm: reorder code blocks in gup.c Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-25 14:37 ` [PATCH 12/16] mm: consolidate the get_user_pages* implementations Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-25 14:37 ` [PATCH 13/16] mm: validate get_user_pages_fast flags Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-25 14:37 ` [PATCH 14/16] mm: move the powerpc hugepd code to mm/gup.c Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-25 19:37   ` Andrew Morton
2019-06-26  5:49     ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-25 14:37 ` [PATCH 15/16] mm: switch gup_hugepte to use try_get_compound_head Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-25 14:37 ` [PATCH 16/16] mm: mark the page referenced in gup_hugepte Christoph Hellwig
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-06-11 14:40 switch the remaining architectures to use generic GUP v3 Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-11 14:40 ` [PATCH 09/16] sparc64: use the generic get_user_pages_fast code Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-11 19:35   ` Khalid Aziz

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