On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 01:27:08PM +0100, Ian Kumlien wrote: > I think that chrome does traceing all the time as a part of it's > sandbox - this is most likely chrome monitoring flash...
Ah, ok. > BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at > 0000000000000063 > IP: [<ffffffff8100b64b>] syscall_trace_enter+0x15e/0x191 > PGD 0 > Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP > Modules linked in: snd_usb_audio snd_usbmidi_lib nouveau mxm_wmi wmi > i2x_algo_bit ttm drm_kms_helper drm > CPU 0 > Pid: 24590, comm: chrome Not tainted 3.7.0-rc7 #50 System manufacturer > System Product Name/A8N32-SLI-Deluxe > RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8100b64b>] [<ffffffff8100b64b>] > syscall_trace_enter+0x15e/0x191 > RSP: 0018:ffff8800058e3f38 EFLAGS: 00010206 > RAX: 0000000000000081 RBX: ffff8800058e3f58 RCX: 0000000000000063 > RDX: 00007fe1f2fbde18 RSI: 00000000000000ca RDI: 00007fe1f2fbde18 > RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 00007fe23f9fcb10 > R10: 00007fe23f9fcb10 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 0000000000000032 > R13: 00007fe23f9fd9c0 R14: 00007fe25d743710 R15: 0000000000000007 > FS: 00007fe23f9fd700(0000) GS:ffff88013fc00000(0000) > knlGS:00000000f5c88740 > CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 > CR2: 0000000000000063 CR3: 0000000083a84000 CR4: 00000000000007f0 > DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 > DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 > Process chrome (pid: 24590, threadinfo ffff8800058e2000, task > ffff88003dacd3b0) > Stack: > 00007fe1f2fbde10 0000000000000001 0000000000000032 ffffffff8160646c > 0000000000000007 00007fe25d743710 00007fe23f9fd9c0 0000000000000032 > 0000000000000001 00007fe1f2fbde10 0000000000000206 00007fe23f9fcb10 > Call Trace: > [<ffffffff8160646c>] ? tracesys+0x7e/0xe2 > Code: 53 28 48 85 ff 74 29 83 3f 00 75 24 eb 37 65 48 8b 0c 25 80 b8 00 > 00 48 8b 89 c0 04 00 00 4c 8b 4b 38 48 8b 53 70 48 85 c9 74 08 <83> 39 > 00 74 1f 48 83 ca ff 48 85 ed 75 04 48 8b 53 78 5b 5d 48 > RIP [<ffffffff8100b64b>] syscall_trace_eneter+0x15e/0x191 > RSP <ffff8800058e3f38> > CR2: 0000000000000063 Right, so I can get the code now where it happens, but it is pretty unreliable to map it to what my compiler generates here (of course, different compilers and hardware): Code: 53 28 48 85 ff 74 29 83 3f 00 75 24 eb 37 65 48 8b 0c 25 80 b8 00 00 48 8b 89 c0 04 00 00 4c 8b 4b 38 48 8b 53 70 48 85 c9 74 08 <83> 39 00 74 1f 48 83 ca ff 48 85 ed 75 04 48 8b 53 78 5b 5d 48 All code ======== 0: 53 push %rbx 1: 28 48 85 sub %cl,-0x7b(%rax) 4: ff 74 29 83 pushq -0x7d(%rcx,%rbp,1) 8: 3f (bad) 9: 00 75 24 add %dh,0x24(%rbp) c: eb 37 jmp 0x45 e: 65 48 8b 0c 25 80 b8 mov %gs:0xb880,%rcx 15: 00 00 17: 48 8b 89 c0 04 00 00 mov 0x4c0(%rcx),%rcx 1e: 4c 8b 4b 38 mov 0x38(%rbx),%r9 22: 48 8b 53 70 mov 0x70(%rbx),%rdx 26: 48 85 c9 test %rcx,%rcx 29: 74 08 je 0x33 2b:* 83 39 00 cmpl $0x0,(%rcx) <-- trapping instruction 2e: 74 1f je 0x4f 30: 48 83 ca ff or $0xffffffffffffffff,%rdx 34: 48 85 ed test %rbp,%rbp 37: 75 04 jne 0x3d 39: 48 8b 53 78 mov 0x78(%rbx),%rdx 3d: 5b pop %rbx 3e: 5d pop %rbp 3f: 48 rex.W So we oops when we try to deref 0x63 which is, of course, not a valid pointer. The question is, what exactly is that thing in rcx. It looks like a percpu variable to me but I'm not sure. Can you do: make arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.lst and send me that file, privately is fine too. Thanks. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/