From: "Américo Wang" <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Anca Emanuel <anca.emanuel@gmail.com>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:00:44 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikyd5GkR_9BUBFeL+Knxd17uozBJoARThVoOrW9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikua-zAss=BRA106EqvmawVMUqk5Sc-J=VjvC+8@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 11:37 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> Al, this smells like your /proc cleanups/fixes...
>
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 2:16 AM, Anca Emanuel <anca.emanuel@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi, I'm using latest kernel git.
>>
>>
>> [15117.080119] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at fffffffffffffff3
>
> That's "-13" (possibly -EACCES)
>
>> [15117.080152] IP: [<ffffffff811b4989>] vma_stop+0x19/0x40
>
> .. and the code disassembles to
>
> 0: 55 push %rbp
> 1: 48 89 e5 mov %rsp,%rbp
> 4: 53 push %rbx
> 5: 48 83 ec 08 sub $0x8,%rsp
> 9: 0f 1f 44 00 00 nopl 0x0(%rax,%rax,1)
> e: 48 85 f6 test %rsi,%rsi
> 11: 74 1a je 0x2d
> 13: 48 39 77 10 cmp %rsi,0x10(%rdi)
> 17: 74 14 je 0x2d
> 19: 8b 1e mov (%rsi),%ebx
> 1b: 48 8d 7b 60 lea 0x60(%rbx),%rdi
> 1f: e8 eb 2f ed ff callq up_read
>
> where that instruction at 0x19 is the access "mm = vma->vm_mm". So
> it's vma that is -EPERM.
>
> I bet it's due to commit ec6fd8a4355c ("report errors in /proc/*/*map*
> sanely"), which replaces NULL with various ERR_PTR() cases.
>
Exactly... should be fixed by something like:
diff --git a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
index 7c708a4..6b82632 100644
--- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
+++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ static void pad_len_spaces(struct seq_file *m, int len)
static void vma_stop(struct proc_maps_private *priv, struct
vm_area_struct *vma)
{
- if (vma && vma != priv->tail_vma) {
+ if (vma && !IS_ERR(vma) && vma != priv->tail_vma) {
struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
mmput(mm);
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-27 16:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-27 9:16 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request Anca Emanuel
2011-03-27 15:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-27 16:00 ` Américo Wang [this message]
2011-03-27 17:44 ` Anca Emanuel
2011-03-27 17:52 ` Stephen Wilson
2011-03-28 3:46 ` [Patch] proc: check error pointer returned by m_start() Amerigo Wang
2011-03-28 3:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-28 5:02 ` Cong Wang
2011-03-28 5:26 ` [Patch V2] " Amerigo Wang
2011-03-28 5:45 ` Cong Wang
2011-03-28 7:07 ` [PATCH 1/2] proc: Use IS_ERR_OR_NULL() helper Amerigo Wang
2011-03-28 7:07 ` [PATCH 2/2] proc: do cleanup in m_start() rather than m_stop() Amerigo Wang
2011-03-28 7:15 ` [PATCH 1/2] proc: Use IS_ERR_OR_NULL() helper Mike Frysinger
2011-03-28 5:46 ` [Patch V2] proc: check error pointer returned by m_start() Anca Emanuel
2011-03-28 5:49 ` Cong Wang
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-05-31 1:24 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request Thomas Fjellstrom
2010-05-23 16:29 Markus
2010-05-23 18:38 ` Borislav Petkov
2010-05-23 20:44 ` Markus
2010-05-23 21:17 ` Borislav Petkov
2010-05-23 21:48 ` Markus
2010-05-24 11:44 ` Markus
2010-05-25 13:09 ` Markus
2010-05-25 14:31 ` Borislav Petkov
2010-05-25 14:54 ` Markus
2008-05-05 22:33 thomas
2008-05-07 6:55 ` Andrew Morton
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