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Message-Id: <20090731162146.0c211a1e.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:21:46 +0900
From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mike Smith <scgtrp@...il.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org,
bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org,
Amerigo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUGFIX][PATCH 0/3] fix bug for /proc/kcore causes panic (Was:
[Bugme-new] [Bug 13850] New: reading /proc/kcore causes oops
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:07:48 +0900
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:32:09 +0900
> KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:46:56 -0400
> > Mike Smith <scgtrp@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > What's layout of memory does your server have ?
> > > The log I gave was from my desktop, so I'll assume you wanted that
> > > instead of the server:
> > > [mike: mike in ~]$ grep "System RAM" /proc/iomem
> > > 00010000-0009efff : System RAM
> > > 00100000-1dedffff : System RAM
> > >
> > From this, your kernel's valid direct-map address range will be
> >
> > c0010000-c009efff
> > c0100000-ddedffff
> >
> Ok, I reproduced the bug on x86-32 and here is a fix.
>
> I reproduced the bug on x86-32 host with mem=512M boot option.
>
> As I expected, the bug is from holes in vmalloc area.
> (This hole means thera are a memory hole withing [start ...start+size-PAGE_SIZE)
> of valid vm_struct.)
>
> For review, I divided all into 3 patches. all series will be reply to this email.
>
A memo.
[1/3] fixes the bug in /dev/kmem, also.
This causes machine check on my host (and one of cpu was disabled)
# dd if=/dev/kmem of=/dev/null bs=1024 count=1048576 skip=3145728
I hope all users of kmem are sane people...but the patch fixes this.
(If kmem has to access IOREMAP area, please teach me .)
[2/3] fix for this /proc/kcore bug based on [1/3]
[3/3] fix for vread/vwrite race conditions.
not related to this reproducable bug itself but a fix for potential bug.
Thanks,
-Kame
> Thanks,
> -Kame
>
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