linux-kernel - Re: 8b275b3754 ("x86/irq/64: Remap the IRQ stack with guard pages"): BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffb659000a1000

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Date:   Sat, 6 Apr 2019 06:54:43 -0700
From:   Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
To:     unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input)
Cc:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: 8b275b3754 ("x86/irq/64: Remap the IRQ stack with guard pages"):
 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffb659000a1000

On Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 11:38 PM kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com> wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> 0day kernel testing robot got the below dmesg and the first bad commit is
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git WIP.x86/stackguards
>
> commit 8b275b3754465d502d393f8ae8dd355b7067e73f
> Author:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
> AuthorDate: Fri Jul 13 19:01:23 2018 -0700
> Commit:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> CommitDate: Fri Apr 5 17:04:10 2019 +0200
>
>     x86/irq/64: Remap the IRQ stack with guard pages
>
>     The IRQ stack lives in percpu space, so an IRQ handler that overflows it
>     will overwrite other data structures.
>
>     Use vmap() to remap the IRQ stack so that it will have the usual guard
>     pages that vmap/vmalloc allocations have. With this the kernel will panic
>     immediately on an IRQ stack overflow.
>
>     [ tglx: Move the map code to a proper place and invoke it only when a CPU
>             is about to be brought online. No point in installing the map at
>             early boot for all possible CPUs. Fail the CPU bringup if the vmap
>             fails as done for all other preparatory stages in cpu hotplug. ]
>
>     Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
>     Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>

I haven't spotted the actual bug yet, but the faulting instruction is:

  2a:    65 8b 35 09 ca 75 63     mov    %gs:*0x6375ca09(%rip),%esi
    # 0x6375ca3a        <-- trapping instruction

This seems to be faulting just above the top of the stack (the thing
in RSP), so I suspect that there is some path that is shoving the
remapped value into GSBASE, which is wrong.

Also, FWIW, there was some reason that I initialized all the virtual
mappings for all possible CPUs early.  I don't remember what it was,
and it may not have been a good reason, but I put at least some
nonzero amount of thought into it :)

--Andy