From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753103AbcBZAir (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Feb 2016 19:38:47 -0500 Received: from mail-pf0-f171.google.com ([209.85.192.171]:36617 "EHLO mail-pf0-f171.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752945AbcBZAip (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Feb 2016 19:38:45 -0500 Subject: Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request from pty_write [was: Linux 4.4.2] To: Jiri Slaby References: <20160217203730.GA14820@kroah.com> <56CED373.9060603@suse.cz> <56CF4A83.3040408@hurleysoftware.com> <56CF64C9.8050705@hurleysoftware.com> <56CF72EA.9040009@suse.cz> <56CF8124.4080003@hurleysoftware.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds , Greg KH , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , stable , lwn@lwn.net, Steven Rostedt From: Peter Hurley Message-ID: <56CF9E8F.3070905@hurleysoftware.com> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 16:38:39 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <56CF8124.4080003@hurleysoftware.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 02/25/2016 02:33 PM, Peter Hurley wrote: > On 02/25/2016 01:32 PM, Jiri Slaby wrote: >> On 02/25/2016, 09:51 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: >>> Jiri, can you check your try_to_wake_up() disassembly for some >>> indirect "jmp" instructions? >> >> Nope, there is none. >> >> I will reply to all your questions tomorrow. >> >> Just quickly, as I have to go (and don't want you to duplicate efforts) >> the kernel which was used can be obtained here: >> https://build.opensuse.org/package/binaries/openSUSE:Factory:Staging:I/kernel-default?repository=standard >> >> The issue is very weird, indeed, this is what I noted to our bugzilla: >> The stack trace ends in call of try_to_wake_up. Then, there it has to be >> some of the indirect calls: >> >> callq *0x40(%rax) >> p->sched_class->select_task_rq from select_task_rq >> >> RAX is 0x00000000bb37e180, barely can be read with offset 0x40 >> >> callq *0xd85656(%rip) # ffffffff81e2aba0 >> smp_ops.smp_send_reschedule from ttwu_queue_remote >> >> Which hardly can be it, given smp_ops is static. >> >> So it has to be some other "call *" from a nested function :(. >> >> >> >> >> Interestingly, RBP contains address inside try_to_wake_up -- >> ffffffff810a535a (dunno why) which is: >> ffffffff810a5355: e8 66 a0 ff ff callq ffffffff8109f3c0 >> >> ffffffff810a535a: e9 9d fe ff ff jmpq ffffffff810a51fc >> > > That would imply that RSP was off by +8 when the ttwu_stat() epilog was > executed so that RBP <= ret addr and RIP <= some local var in try_to_wake_up() > stack frame. > > Looks like R15 in the crash report could be what RBP should have been. > > Now to find out why RSP is +8 Which I would investigate if I could download that kernel. Unfortunately, OBS doesn't like me so if you could make that kernel available some other way or send me a mixed listing of kernel/sched/core.c >> ttwu_stat does in the begginning: >> mov $0x16e80,%r14 >> >> which is what we actually still have in r14 when it crashes. The first >> ttwu_stat's "if" has to go through the true branch (otherwise r14 would >> be overwritten). >> >> >> >> Another note: we die when jmp/calling to 0xffff88023fd40000. >> RSI=RDI=0xffff88023fdd6e80. RSI-RIP is 0x96e80, which is R14 + 0x80000. >> Coincidence? >> >> thanks, >> >