linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] [GIT PULL] tracing: various bug fixes

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:32:25 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
cc:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@...hat.com>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] [GIT PULL] tracing: various bug fixes


On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > >    
> > > > Do you have CONFIG_PARAVIRT on?  When I disabled it, I have yet to
> > > > reproduce the bug. But I've only rebooted a few times. I'm going to
> > > > continue to reboot to see if I can trigger it.
> > > >     
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Yes it is enabled.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >   
> > > > I'm thinking that the paravirt alternative code may have clobbered a
> > > > register in either the enable or disabling of interrupts. This might cause
> > > > a strange value to go into the hardirqs_enabled flag.
> > > >     
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Ok I will try it without PARAVIRT and tell you if I can reproduce it.
> > >   
> > 
> > Interesting.  What code is generated for native_irq_enable/disable?
> 
> Note, when I take my standard config and enable PARAVIRT and LOCKDEP it 
> still boots up fine. It may be a combination of some configs :-/
> 
> I'm currently doing a "config bisect" to find out what configs are needed.

I just finished the config bisect, and it came down to 
CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC (set is bad, not set is good). I'm sure this is not 
the only config that is at issue. It is probably a combination of configs 
:-/

I'll try others to see if things change.

-- Steve

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/