linux-kernel - Re: [tip:perf/core] x86, mm, perf: Allow recursive faults from interrupts

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Date:	Fri, 17 Jan 2014 13:07:20 -0800
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:	Waiman Long <waiman.long@...com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Scott J Norton <scott.norton@...com>,
	Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@...com>,
	tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra <tipbot@...or.com>,
	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:perf/core] x86, mm, perf: Allow recursive faults from interrupts

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Waiman Long <waiman.long@...com> wrote:
> On 01/17/2014 02:17 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Waiman Long<waiman.long@...com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 01/16/2014 08:39 AM, tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Commit-ID:  c026b3591e4f2a4993df773183704bb31634e0bd
>>>> Gitweb:
>>>> http://git.kernel.org/tip/c026b3591e4f2a4993df773183704bb31634e0bd
>>>> Author:     Peter Zijlstra<peterz@...radead.org>
>>>> AuthorDate: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 21:06:03 +0100
>>>> Committer:  Ingo Molnar<mingo@...nel.org>
>>>> CommitDate: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 09:19:48 +0100
>>>>
>>>> x86, mm, perf: Allow recursive faults from interrupts
>>>>
>>>> Waiman managed to trigger a PMI while in a emulate_vsyscall() fault,
>>>> the PMI in turn managed to trigger a fault while obtaining a stack
>>>> trace. This triggered the sig_on_uaccess_error recursive fault logic
>>>> and killed the process dead.
>>>>
>>>> Fix this by explicitly excluding interrupts from the recursive fault
>>>> logic.
>>>>
>>>> Reported-and-Tested-by: Waiman Long<waiman.long@...com>
>>>> Fixes: e00b12e64be9 ("perf/x86: Further optimize copy_from_user_nmi()")
>>>> Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran<aswin@...com>
>>>> Cc: Scott J Norton<scott.norton@...com>
>>>> Cc: Linus Torvalds<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
>>>> Cc: Andy Lutomirski<luto@...capital.net>
>>>> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo<acme@...stprotocols.net>
>>>> Cc: Andrew Morton<akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra<peterz@...radead.org>
>>>> Link:
>>>>
>>>> http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140110200603.GJ7572@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net
>>>> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar<mingo@...nel.org>
>>>> ---
>>>>    arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
>>>>    1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Will that be picked up by Linus as it is a 3.13 regression?
>>
>> Does anyone actually know why this regressed recently?  The buggy code
>> has been there for quite a while.
>>
>> --Andy
>
>
> Yes, the bug was there for a while, but a recent change by Peter (see the
> "Fixes:" line above) made it much easier to hit it.

Thanks!

So I feel slightly better now -- this particular bug didn't actually
exist when I wrote the offending code :)  But that also means that
this should really be fixed in 3.13.

--Andy
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