On 03/16/2015 05:47 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 05:05:53AM -0700, tip-bot for Denys Vlasenko wrote: >> Commit-ID: 245214a155c711764b3853189441c9f8aeb058b3 >> Gitweb: >> http://git.kernel.org/tip/245214a155c711764b3853189441c9f8aeb058b3 >> Author: Denys Vlasenko <dvlas...@redhat.com> >> AuthorDate: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 11:45:07 +0100 >> Committer: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> >> CommitDate: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 13:56:11 +0100 >> >> x86/asm/entry/64: Remove unused thread_struct::usersp >> >> All manipulations of PER_CPU(old_rsp) in C code are removed: >> it is not used on SYSRET return, so storing anything there is >> pointless. >> >> This also allows us to get rid of thread_struct::usersp, >> which was needed only to set PER_CPU(old_rsp) for correct >> return from fork/clone. >> >> Tweak a few comments as well: we no longer have "partial stack frame", >> ever. >> >> Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlas...@redhat.com> >> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <a...@plumgrid.com> >> Cc: Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de> >> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com> >> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com> >> Cc: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> >> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> >> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <o...@redhat.com> >> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org> >> Cc: Will Drewry <w...@chromium.org> >> Link: >> http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1425984307-2143-2-git-send-email-dvlas...@redhat.com >> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> > > So this patch is causing all kinds of segfaults when booting my kvm > guest here, see below.
I built defconfig kernel from tip, and tested it again under qemu-kvm. Works for me with and without this change. What's your config? What distro do you run in the guest? > Reverting it makes the segfaults go away but from looking at the patch, > I have no idea why it would even cause those segfaults. Yep. This is one of those cases where "it must be completely safe"... > [ 5.285547] kmod[1316]: segfault at 738c08 ip 0000000000738c08 sp > 00007ffdb6079c68 error 15 > [ 9.537606] tput[2716]: segfault at 0 ip (null) sp > 00007fffffffdbd0 error 14 in tput[400000+3000] > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Looks like rIP has went off somewhere in the weeds. > Hmmm... > > [ 4.593374] grep[998]: segfault at 7ffc3a9f4378 ip 00007fb8409fe1df sp > 00007ffc3a9f4378 error 4 in ld-2.13.so[7fb8409e8000+20000] > [ 4.593374] grep[998]: segfault at 7ffc3a9f4378 ip 00007fb8409fe1df sp > 00007ffc3a9f4378 error 4 in ld-2.13.so[7fb8409e8000+20000] > > [ 7.160423] sed[1999]: segfault at 7ffe9998f778 ip 00007f37deef0b52 sp > 00007ffe9998f778 error 4 in libc-2.13.so[7f37dee18000+182000] > > [ 4.593374] grep[998]: segfault at 7ffc3a9f4378 ip 00007fb8409fe1df sp > 00007ffc3a9f4378 error 4 in ld-2.13.so[7fb8409e8000+20000] > [ 7.160423] sed[1999]: segfault at 7ffe9998f778 ip 00007f37deef0b52 sp > 00007ffe9998f778 error 4 in libc-2.13.so[7f37dee18000+182000] > > [ 4.593374] grep[998]: segfault at 7ffc3a9f4378 ip 00007fb8409fe1df sp > 00007ffc3a9f4378 error 4 in ld-2.13.so[7fb8409e8000+20000] > [ 7.160423] sed[1999]: segfault at 7ffe9998f778 ip 00007f37deef0b52 sp > 00007ffe9998f778 error 4 in libc-2.13.so[7f37dee18000+182000] > [ 5.607611] sed[1350]: segfault at 7ffddd4a4bf0 ip 00007ff24a11fafc sp > 00007ffddd4a4bf0 error 4 in libc-2.13.so[7ff24a050000+182000] This does not look entirely random. Can you take a look what's at those locations in ld-2.13.so and libc-2.13.so? -- 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/
