linux-kernel - Re: strace-4.18 test suite oopses sparc64 4.12 and 4.13-rc kernels

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Message-ID: <20170804054448.GA31513@ravnborg.org>
Date:   Fri, 4 Aug 2017 07:44:48 +0200
From:   Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     mikpelinux@...il.com, matorola@...il.com,
        sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: strace-4.18 test suite oopses sparc64 4.12 and 4.13-rc kernels

Hi Davem.

On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 02:57:48PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Mikael Pettersson <mikpelinux@...il.com>
> Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2017 22:02:57 +0200
> 
> > With that in place the kernel booted fine.
> > When I then ran the `poll' strace test binary, the OOPS was replaced by:
> > 
> > [  140.589913] _copy_from_user(fff000123c8dfa7c,           (null), 240) res 240
> > [  140.753162] _copy_from_user(fff000123c8dfa7c, 00000000f7e4a000, 8) res 8
> > [  140.824155] _copy_from_user(fff000123c8dfa7c, 00000000f7e49ff8, 16) res 18442240552407530112
> > 
> > That last `res' doesn't look good.
> 
> Please test this patch:
> 
> diff --git a/arch/sparc/lib/U3memcpy.S b/arch/sparc/lib/U3memcpy.S
> index 54f9870..5a8cb37 100644
> --- a/arch/sparc/lib/U3memcpy.S
> +++ b/arch/sparc/lib/U3memcpy.S
> @@ -145,13 +145,13 @@ ENDPROC(U3_retl_o2_plus_GS_plus_0x08)
>  ENTRY(U3_retl_o2_and_7_plus_GS)
>  	and	%o2, 7, %o2
>  	retl
> -	 add	%o2, GLOBAL_SPARE, %o2
> +	 add	%o2, GLOBAL_SPARE, %o0
>  ENDPROC(U3_retl_o2_and_7_plus_GS)
>  ENTRY(U3_retl_o2_and_7_plus_GS_plus_8)
>  	add	GLOBAL_SPARE, 8, GLOBAL_SPARE
>  	and	%o2, 7, %o2
>  	retl
> -	 add	%o2, GLOBAL_SPARE, %o2
> +	 add	%o2, GLOBAL_SPARE, %o0
>  ENDPROC(U3_retl_o2_and_7_plus_GS_plus_8)
>  #endif
>  
Patch looks obviously correct, and I am a bit irritated that
I did not see this myself.
Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>

I will send another patch that fixes/adds a few comments to the same file.

	Sam