linux-kernel - Re: [x86, vdso] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at d34bd000

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Message-ID: <531DD35A.5060202@linux.intel.com>
Date:	Mon, 10 Mar 2014 07:59:38 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
CC:	Stefani Seibold <stefani@...bold.net>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Martin Runge <Martin.Runge@...de-schwarz.com>,
	Andreas Brief <Andreas.Brief@...de-schwarz.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [x86, vdso] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at d34bd000

On 03/09/2014 09:46 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 8:18 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net> wrote:
>> (Of course, I haven't the faintest idea what l_addr in glibc means.
>> If there was a way to arrange for l_addr to be zero, then maybe none
>> of this would matter.  Hmm, I wonder if just not relocating the vdso
>> at all would have the desired effect.  Anyone out there understand
>> glibc?)
> 
> No, that won't work.  The bug is that glibc expects PT_DYNAMIC's vaddr
> to be the virtual address of the dynamic table.  This can only be true
> if the vdso is mapped at the address that the kernel relocated it to.
> 
> I also learned that glibc's code is really hideous.  Wow.
> 

At the same time it does mean we have more flexibility than having a
hard-coded address... we can at least allocate more than one page in the
fixmap; for a really "full service" solution the kernel could adjust the
vdso for whatever address the "fixmap" is at.

I have mentioned in the past wanting to move the fixmap to the low part
of the kernel space, because the top isn't really fixed...

	-hpa


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