From: zanussi@kernel.org
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Carsten Emde <C.Emde@osadl.org>, John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>,
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
Daniel Wagner <wagi@monom.org>, Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH RT 14/23] Revert "ARM: Initialize split page table locks for vector page"
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 08:33:25 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b1c7e28f28755f6bc202daf3b276f2874ac4c776.1582814004.git.zanussi@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1582814004.git.zanussi@kernel.org>
In-Reply-To: <cover.1582814004.git.zanussi@kernel.org>
From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
v4.14.170-rt75-rc2 stable review patch.
If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
-----------
[ Upstream commit 247074c44d8c3e619dfde6404a52295d8d671d38 ]
I'm dropping this patch, with its original description:
|ARM: Initialize split page table locks for vector page
|
|Without this patch, ARM can not use SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS if
|PREEMPT_RT_FULL=y because vectors_user_mapping() creates a
|VM_ALWAYSDUMP mapping of the vector page (address 0xffff0000), but no
|ptl->lock has been allocated for the page. An attempt to coredump
|that page will result in a kernel NULL pointer dereference when
|follow_page() attempts to lock the page.
|
|The call tree to the NULL pointer dereference is:
|
| do_notify_resume()
| get_signal_to_deliver()
| do_coredump()
| elf_core_dump()
| get_dump_page()
| __get_user_pages()
| follow_page()
| pte_offset_map_lock() <----- a #define
| ...
| rt_spin_lock()
|
|The underlying problem is exposed by mm-shrink-the-page-frame-to-rt-size.patch.
The patch named mm-shrink-the-page-frame-to-rt-size.patch was dropped
from the RT queue once the SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS feature (in a slightly
different shape) went upstream (somewhere between v3.12 and v3.14).
I can see that the patch still allocates a lock which wasn't there
before. However I can't trigger a kernel oops like described in the
patch by triggering a coredump.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
---
arch/arm/kernel/process.c | 24 ------------------------
1 file changed, 24 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/process.c b/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
index cf4e1452d4b4..d96714e1858c 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
@@ -325,30 +325,6 @@ unsigned long arch_randomize_brk(struct mm_struct *mm)
}
#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
-/*
- * CONFIG_SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS results in a page->ptl lock. If the lock is not
- * initialized by pgtable_page_ctor() then a coredump of the vector page will
- * fail.
- */
-static int __init vectors_user_mapping_init_page(void)
-{
- struct page *page;
- unsigned long addr = 0xffff0000;
- pgd_t *pgd;
- pud_t *pud;
- pmd_t *pmd;
-
- pgd = pgd_offset_k(addr);
- pud = pud_offset(pgd, addr);
- pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr);
- page = pmd_page(*(pmd));
-
- pgtable_page_ctor(page);
-
- return 0;
-}
-late_initcall(vectors_user_mapping_init_page);
-
#ifdef CONFIG_KUSER_HELPERS
/*
* The vectors page is always readable from user space for the
--
2.14.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-27 14:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-27 14:33 [PATCH RT 00/23] Linux v4.14.170-rt75-rc2 zanussi
2020-02-27 14:33 ` [PATCH RT 01/23] Fix wrong-variable use in irq_set_affinity_notifier zanussi
2020-02-27 14:33 ` [PATCH RT 02/23] i2c: exynos5: Remove IRQF_ONESHOT zanussi
2020-02-27 14:33 ` [PATCH RT 03/23] i2c: hix5hd2: " zanussi
2020-02-27 14:33 ` [PATCH RT 04/23] x86: preempt: Check preemption level before looking at lazy-preempt zanussi
2020-02-27 14:33 ` [PATCH RT 05/23] sched: migrate_dis/enable: Use sleeping_lock…() to annotate sleeping points zanussi
2020-02-27 14:33 ` [PATCH RT 06/23] sched: __set_cpus_allowed_ptr: Check cpus_mask, not cpus_ptr zanussi
2020-02-27 14:33 ` [PATCH RT 07/23] sched: Remove dead __migrate_disabled() check zanussi
2020-02-27 14:33 ` [PATCH RT 08/23] sched: migrate disable: Protect cpus_ptr with lock zanussi
2020-02-27 14:33 ` [PATCH RT 09/23] lib/smp_processor_id: Don't use cpumask_equal() zanussi
2020-02-27 14:33 ` [PATCH RT 10/23] futex: Make the futex_hash_bucket spinlock_t again and bring back its old state zanussi
2020-02-27 14:33 ` [PATCH RT 11/23] locking/rtmutex: Clean ->pi_blocked_on in the error case zanussi
2020-02-27 14:33 ` [PATCH RT 12/23] lib/ubsan: Don't seralize UBSAN report zanussi
2020-02-27 14:33 ` [PATCH RT 13/23] kmemleak: Change the lock of kmemleak_object to raw_spinlock_t zanussi
2020-02-27 14:33 ` zanussi [this message]
2020-02-27 14:33 ` [PATCH RT 15/23] locking: Make spinlock_t and rwlock_t a RCU section on RT zanussi
2020-02-27 14:33 ` [PATCH RT 16/23] sched: migrate_enable: Use select_fallback_rq() zanussi
2020-02-27 14:33 ` [PATCH RT 17/23] sched: Lazy migrate_disable processing zanussi
2020-02-27 14:33 ` [PATCH RT 18/23] sched: migrate_enable: Use stop_one_cpu_nowait() zanussi
2020-02-27 14:33 ` [PATCH RT 19/23] sched/core: migrate_enable() must access takedown_cpu_task on !HOTPLUG_CPU zanussi
2020-02-27 14:33 ` [PATCH RT 20/23] lib/smp_processor_id: Adjust check_preemption_disabled() zanussi
2020-02-27 14:33 ` [PATCH RT 21/23] sched: migrate_enable: Busy loop until the migration request is completed zanussi
2020-03-03 19:56 ` Scott Wood
2020-03-03 20:39 ` Tom Zanussi
2020-03-03 21:19 ` Scott Wood
2020-03-03 21:54 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-03-05 13:38 ` David Laight
2020-03-05 17:58 ` Tom Zanussi
2020-02-27 14:33 ` [PATCH RT 22/23] sched/deadline: Ensure inactive_timer runs in hardirq context zanussi
2020-02-27 14:33 ` [PATCH RT 23/23] Linux 4.14.170-rt75-rc2 zanussi
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