linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/6] syscalls: use uaccess_kernel in addr_limit_user

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Date:   Fri, 17 Jul 2020 18:38:50 -0700
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Nick Hu <nickhu@...estech.com>, Greentime Hu <green.hu@...il.com>,
        Vincent Chen <deanbo422@...il.com>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] syscalls: use uaccess_kernel in addr_limit_user_check

Hi,

On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 12:55:00PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Use the uaccess_kernel helper instead of duplicating it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>

This patch causes a severe hiccup with my mps2-an385 boot test.

[    8.545195] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[    8.545294] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at ./include/linux/syscalls.h:267 addr_limit_check_failed+0x11/0x24
[    8.545376] Invalid address limit on user-mode return
[    8.545487] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: init Not tainted 5.8.0-rc5-next-20200717 #1
[    8.545603] Hardware name: MPS2 (Device Tree Support)
[    8.546053] [<2100af9d>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<2100a353>] (show_stack+0xb/0xc)
[    8.546240] [<2100a353>] (show_stack) from [<2100dadb>] (__warn+0x6f/0x80)
[    8.546311] [<2100dadb>] (__warn) from [<2100db1d>] (warn_slowpath_fmt+0x31/0x60)
[    8.546383] [<2100db1d>] (warn_slowpath_fmt) from [<2100a159>] (addr_limit_check_failed+0x11/0x24)
[    8.546464] [<2100a159>] (addr_limit_check_failed) from [<210080f3>] (ret_to_user_from_irq+0xf/0x18)
[    8.546567] Exception stack(0x21427fb0 to 0x21427ff8)
[    8.546649] 7fa0:                                     00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[    8.546729] 7fc0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 21744f80 00000000
[    8.546800] 7fe0: 00000000 21757fa8 00000000 21700b6c 01000000 00000000
[    8.546910] ---[ end trace f1b0cd10cc3456dc ]---

This keeps happening until qemu aborts.

Reverting the patch isn't possible since segment_eq() is gone in
next-20200717.

Guenter

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