* Re: Re: [PATCH RESEND] arm64: add alignment fault hanling
@ 2016-02-15 11:48 EunTaik Lee
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From: EunTaik Lee @ 2016-02-15 11:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Catalin Marinas
Cc: EunTaik Lee, will.deacon, vladimir.murzin, suzuki.poulose,
riandrews, james.morse, salyzyn, Dave.Martin, linux-arm-kernel,
linux-kernel
> How do you end up with Device nGnRnE in user space? I thought we should
> have got some guard page.
I guess it is a device file that is mmaped in the user space and later remapped in the kernel
using pgprot_noncached().
I can't find the code that inserts a guard page in between vma's can you please help me find that code?
> do_strncpy_from_user() relies on unsafe_get_user() not being able to
> read 8 bytes. The problem now is that it doesn't get a page fault but an
> alignment one is isn't handled.
Yes.
> Why addr >= TASK_SIZE? addr here should be the fault address, not pc.
You're right. I should have used user_mode(regs).
> The simplest would be to use do_bad_area() here without any additional
> function.
Yes, I should've probably used do_bad_area(). I just wanted to do the minimal stuff.
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* Re: Re: [PATCH RESEND] arm64: add alignment fault hanling
@ 2016-02-15 11:44 EunTaik Lee
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: EunTaik Lee @ 2016-02-15 11:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Catalin Marinas
Cc: will.deacon, vladimir.murzin, suzuki.poulose, riandrews,
james.morse, salyzyn, Dave.Martin, linux-arm-kernel,
linux-kernel
> How do you end up with Device nGnRnE in user space? I thought we should
> have got some guard page.
I guess it is a device file that is mmaped in the user space and later remapped in the kernel
using pgprot_noncached().
I can't find the code that inserts a guard page in between vma's can you please help me find that code?
> do_strncpy_from_user() relies on unsafe_get_user() not being able to
> read 8 bytes. The problem now is that it doesn't get a page fault but an
> alignment one is isn't handled.
Yes.
> Why addr >= TASK_SIZE? addr here should be the fault address, not pc.
You're right. I should have used user_mode(regs).
> The simplest would be to use do_bad_area() here without any additional
> function.
Yes, I should've probably used do_bad_area(). I just wanted to do the minimal stuff.
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