From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Cc: stable-review@kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Subject: [02/34] mm: fix ia64 crash when gcore reads gate area
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:56:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100806185834.004291182@clark.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100806185853.GA28270@kroah.com>
2.6.32-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
------------------
From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
commit de51257aa301652876ab6e8f13ea4eadbe4a3846 upstream.
Debian's ia64 autobuilders have been seeing kernel freeze or reboot
when running the gdb testsuite (Debian bug 588574): dannf bisected to
2.6.32 62eede62dafb4a6633eae7ffbeb34c60dba5e7b1 "mm: ZERO_PAGE without
PTE_SPECIAL"; and reproduced it with gdb's gcore on a simple target.
I'd missed updating the gate_vma handling in __get_user_pages(): that
happens to use vm_normal_page() (nowadays failing on the zero page),
yet reported success even when it failed to get a page - boom when
access_process_vm() tried to copy that to its intermediate buffer.
Fix this, resisting cleanups: in particular, leave it for now reporting
success when not asked to get any pages - very probably safe to change,
but let's not risk it without testing exposure.
Why did ia64 crash with 16kB pages, but succeed with 64kB pages?
Because setup_gate() pads each 64kB of its gate area with zero pages.
Reported-by: Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>
Bisected-by: dann frazier <dannf@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Tested-by: dann frazier <dannf@dannf.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---
mm/memory.c | 16 +++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -1282,10 +1282,20 @@ int __get_user_pages(struct task_struct
return i ? : -EFAULT;
}
if (pages) {
- struct page *page = vm_normal_page(gate_vma, start, *pte);
+ struct page *page;
+
+ page = vm_normal_page(gate_vma, start, *pte);
+ if (!page) {
+ if (!(gup_flags & FOLL_DUMP) &&
+ is_zero_pfn(pte_pfn(*pte)))
+ page = pte_page(*pte);
+ else {
+ pte_unmap(pte);
+ return i ? : -EFAULT;
+ }
+ }
pages[i] = page;
- if (page)
- get_page(page);
+ get_page(page);
}
pte_unmap(pte);
if (vmas)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-06 19:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-06 18:58 [00/34] 2.6.32.18-stable review Greg KH
2010-08-06 18:56 ` [01/34] sched: cgroup: Implement different treatment for idle shares Greg KH
2010-08-06 18:56 ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-08-06 18:56 ` [03/34] Re: acl trouble after upgrading ubuntu Greg KH
2010-08-06 18:56 ` [04/34] comedi: Uncripple 8255-based DIO subdevices Greg KH
2010-08-06 18:57 ` [05/34] NFS: kswapd must not block in nfs_release_page Greg KH
2010-08-06 18:57 ` [06/34] PARISC: led.c - fix potential stack overflow in led_proc_write() Greg KH
2010-08-06 18:57 ` [07/34] arm/imx/gpio: add spinlock protection Greg KH
2010-08-06 18:57 ` [08/34] parisc: pass through \t to early (iodc) console Greg KH
2010-08-06 18:57 ` [09/34] amd64_edac: Fix DCT base address selector Greg KH
2010-08-06 18:57 ` [10/34] amd64_edac: Correct scrub rate setting Greg KH
2010-08-06 18:57 ` [11/34] e1000e: dont inadvertently re-set INTX_DISABLE Greg KH
2010-08-06 18:57 ` [12/34] e1000e: 82577/82578 PHY register access issues Greg KH
2010-08-06 18:57 ` [13/34] 9p: strlen() doesnt count the terminator Greg KH
2010-08-06 18:57 ` [14/34] ath9k: enable serialize_regmode for non-PCIE AR9160 Greg KH
2010-08-06 18:57 ` [15/34] ath9k_hw: fix an off-by-one error in the PDADC boundaries calculation Greg KH
2010-08-06 18:57 ` [16/34] ath9k: fix TSF after reset on AR913x Greg KH
2010-08-06 18:57 ` [17/34] ath9k: fix yet another buffer leak in the tx aggregation code Greg KH
2010-08-06 18:57 ` [18/34] iwlwifi: fix scan abort Greg KH
2010-08-06 18:57 ` [19/34] cfg80211: ignore spurious deauth Greg KH
2010-08-06 18:57 ` [20/34] cfg80211: dont get expired BSSes Greg KH
2010-08-06 18:57 ` [21/34] xfs: prevent swapext from operating on write-only files Greg KH
2010-08-06 18:57 ` [22/34] SCSI: enclosure: fix error path - actually return ERR_PTR() on error Greg KH
2010-08-06 18:57 ` [23/34] GFS2: rename causes kernel Oops Greg KH
2010-08-06 18:57 ` [24/34] slow-work: use get_ref wrapper instead of directly calling get_ref Greg KH
2010-08-06 18:57 ` [25/34] CIFS: Remove __exit mark from cifs_exit_dns_resolver() Greg KH
2010-08-06 18:57 ` [26/34] CIFS: Fix compile error with __init in cifs_init_dns_resolver() definition Greg KH
2010-08-06 20:53 ` [Stable-review] " Ben Hutchings
2010-08-06 21:06 ` Greg KH
2010-08-07 3:38 ` Michael Neuling
2010-08-06 18:57 ` [27/34] xen: drop xen_sched_clock in favour of using plain wallclock time Greg KH
2010-08-06 18:57 ` [28/34] drm/i915: Fix LVDS presence check Greg KH
2010-08-06 18:57 ` [29/34] drm/i915: parse child device from VBT Greg KH
2010-08-06 18:57 ` [30/34] Revert "ssb: Handle Netbook devices where the SPROM address is changed" Greg KH
2010-08-06 18:57 ` [31/34] ssb: do not read SPROM if it does not exist Greg KH
2010-08-06 18:57 ` [32/34] ssb: Look for SPROM at different offset on higher rev CC Greg KH
2010-08-06 18:57 ` [33/34] ssb: fix NULL ptr deref when pcihost_wrapper is used Greg KH
2010-08-06 18:57 ` [34/34] ssb: Handle alternate SSPROM location Greg KH
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