linux-kernel - Re: [criu] 1M guard page ruined restore

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Message-ID: <20170621171545.GA28664@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 21 Jun 2017 19:15:45 +0200
From:   Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:     Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
Cc:     Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, Andrey Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...tuozzo.com>,
        Dmitry Safonov <dsafonov@...tuozzo.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Adrian Reber <areber@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [criu] 1M guard page ruined restore

On 06/21, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> On 06/21, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 05:57:30PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > > >
> > > > 	p = fake_grow_down;
> > > > 	*p-- = 'c';
> > >
> > > I guess this works? I mean, *p-- = 'c' should not fail...
> >
> > It fails.
> 
> Hmm. Impossible ;) could you add the additional printf's to re-check?

Yes, please...

> > 	p = fake_grow_down;
> > 	*p-- = 'c';
> 
> once again, I can't believe this STORE can fail...
> 
> > 	*p = 'b';
> 
> Ah. I forgot about another kernel "feature" ;) not related to the recent guard
> page changes...

On the second thought it is actually connected, and it seems we really need to
remove this code in do_page_fault... I'll re-check tomorrow, need to run away.

> Could you test the patch below?
> 
> Oleg.
> 
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
> index 8ad91a0..edc5d68 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
> @@ -1416,7 +1416,7 @@ __do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
>  		 * and pusha to work. ("enter $65535, $31" pushes
>  		 * 32 pointers and then decrements %sp by 65535.)
>  		 */
> -		if (unlikely(address + 65536 + 32 * sizeof(unsigned long) < regs->sp)) {
> +if (0)		if (unlikely(address + 65536 + 32 * sizeof(unsigned long) < regs->sp)) {
>  			bad_area(regs, error_code, address);
>  			return;
>  		}