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Message-ID: <20160916203205.GA29660@roeck-us.net>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 13:32:05 -0700
From: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To: Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>,
linux-sh@...r.kernel.org, Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
Subject: Re: Runtime failure running sh:qemu in -next due to 'sh: fix
copy_from_user()'
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 09:03:20PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 12:12:18PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I see the following runtime failure when running a 'sh' image with qemu in -next.
> >
> > [ ... ]
> >
> > sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
> > EXT2-fs (sda): warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
> > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) on device 8:0.
> > Freeing unused kernel memory: 124K (8c48a000 - 8c4a9000)
> > This architecture does not have kernel memory protection.
> > random: fast init done
> > Starting logging: OK
> > usb 1-1: new full-speed USB device number 2 using sm501-usb
> > Initializing random number generator... done.
> > Starting network...
> > ip: OVERRUN: Invalid argument
> > ip: OVERRUN: Bad address
> > ip: OVERRUN: Bad address
> > ip: OVERRUN: Bad address
> > ip: OVERRUN: Bad address
> > [repeats until the test aborts]
> >
> > Bisect points to commit 6e050503a150 ("sh: fix copy_from_user()"). Bisect log is
> > attached.
>
> BTW, could you post your .config and information about your userland? E.g.
> is that ip(8) a busybox one, etc. If it's busybox, this smells like EINVAL
> and EFAULT resp. coming from recvmsg() on netlink sockets, with nothing
> extraordinary in iovecs, AFAICS...
Please see https://github.com/groeck/linux-build-test/tree/master/rootfs/sh.
The rootfs is some three years old. I don't remember how I created it :-).
Guenter
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