linux-kernel - Re: [RFC6 PATCH v6 00/21] ILP32 for ARM64

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Date:	Fri, 13 May 2016 14:32:12 +0100
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	"Zhangjian (Bamvor)" <bamvor.zhangjian@...wei.com>
Cc:	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
	Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com>, arnd@...db.de,
	pinskia@...il.com, Prasun.Kapoor@...iumnetworks.com,
	heiko.carstens@...ibm.com, broonie@...nel.org,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, Nathan_Lynch@...tor.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, agraf@...e.de,
	klimov.linux@...il.com, Yury Norov <ynorov@...iumnetworks.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, schwab@...e.de,
	schwidefsky@...ibm.com, joseph@...esourcery.com,
	christoph.muellner@...obroma-systems.com
Subject: Re: [RFC6 PATCH v6 00/21] ILP32 for ARM64

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 09:28:03AM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > >>>>>On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 03:20:00AM +0300, Yury Norov wrote:
> > >>>>>>I debugged preadv02 and pwritev02 failures and found very weird bug.
> > >>>>>>Test passes {iovec_base = 0xffffffff, iovec_len = 64} as one element
> > >>>>>>of vector, and kernel reports successful read/write.
[...]
> The discussion is mainly around whether USER_DS for 32-bit compat apps
> should be the same as USER_DS for native 32-bit apps. Even for native
> 32-bit kernels, we don't use STACK_TOP as addr_limit. A read/write from
> 0xffffffff would fail in both cases anyway. I think the LTP test doesn't
> even try to access such memory but only to probe the range validity (I
> haven't managed to build the latest LTP yet).

OK, so I managed to get the latest LTP (tag 20160510) built for AArch32
but the preadv02 does not fail:

-----------------------------
# uname -m
aarch64

# file ./testcases/bin/preadv02
./testcases/bin/preadv02: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, EABI5 version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3, for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, BuildID[sha1]=98066291426e1d3ee49d8504ce2a5bd721ab7fe8, not stripped

# ./testcases/bin/preadv02
preadv02.c:97: PASS: preadv() failed as expected: EINVAL
preadv02.c:97: PASS: preadv() failed as expected: EINVAL
preadv02.c:97: PASS: preadv() failed as expected: EINVAL
preadv02.c:97: PASS: preadv() failed as expected: EFAULT
preadv02.c:97: PASS: preadv() failed as expected: EBADF
preadv02.c:97: PASS: preadv() failed as expected: EBADF
preadv02.c:97: PASS: preadv() failed as expected: EISDIR
preadv02.c:97: PASS: preadv() failed as expected: ESPIPE

Summary:
passed   8
failed   0
skipped  0
warnings 0
-----------------------------

It's the 4th test above which passes iovec_base as -1 and expects
EFAULT. However, it seems to get the expected error. I guess that even
if access_ok() passes, the access to that location by the kernel would
fail since there isn't anything mapped.

With ILP32, however, STACK_TOP is TASK_SIZE and you may have the address
mapped already. I still think the USER_DS fix is useful, though I need
another way to check that it's actually a fix.

-- 
Catalin