linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 2/8] powerpc/vdso: Remove __kernel_datapage_offset and simplify __get

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Message-ID: <20200921112638.GC2139@willie-the-truck>
Date:   Mon, 21 Sep 2020 12:26:38 +0100
From:   Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
To:     Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Cc:     Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@...il.com>,
        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, nathanl@...ux.ibm.com,
        linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 2/8] powerpc/vdso: Remove __kernel_datapage_offset and
 simplify __get_datapage()

On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 12:14:28PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@...il.com> writes:
> > On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 at 15:39, Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au> wrote:
> >> Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu> writes:
> >> We added a test for vdso unmap recently because it happened to trigger a
> >> KAUP failure, and someone actually hit it & reported it.
> >
> > You right, CRIU cares much more about moving vDSO.
> > It's done for each restoree and as on most setups vDSO is premapped and
> > used by the application - it's actively tested.
> > Speaking about vDSO unmap - that's concerning only for heterogeneous C/R,
> > i.e when an application is migrated from a system that uses vDSO to the one
> > which doesn't - it's much rare scenario.
> > (for arm it's !CONFIG_VDSO, for x86 it's `vdso=0` boot parameter)
> 
> Ah OK that explains it.
> 
> The case we hit of VDSO unmapping was some strange "library OS" thing
> which had explicitly unmapped the VDSO, so also very rare.
> 
> > Looking at the code, it seems quite easy to provide/maintain .close() for
> > vm_special_mapping. A bit harder to add a test from CRIU side
> > (as glibc won't know on restore that it can't use vdso anymore),
> > but totally not impossible.
> >
> >> Running that test on arm64 segfaults:
> >>
> >>   # ./sigreturn_vdso
> >>   VDSO is at 0xffff8191f000-0xffff8191ffff (4096 bytes)
> >>   Signal delivered OK with VDSO mapped
> >>   VDSO moved to 0xffff8191a000-0xffff8191afff (4096 bytes)
> >>   Signal delivered OK with VDSO moved
> >>   Unmapped VDSO
> >>   Remapped the stack executable
> >>   [   48.556191] potentially unexpected fatal signal 11.
> >>   [   48.556752] CPU: 0 PID: 140 Comm: sigreturn_vdso Not tainted 5.9.0-rc2-00057-g2ac69819ba9e #190
> >>   [   48.556990] Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
> >>   [   48.557336] pstate: 60001000 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO BTYPE=--)
> >>   [   48.557475] pc : 0000ffff8191a7bc
> >>   [   48.557603] lr : 0000ffff8191a7bc
> >>   [   48.557697] sp : 0000ffffc13c9e90
> >>   [   48.557873] x29: 0000ffffc13cb0e0 x28: 0000000000000000
> >>   [   48.558201] x27: 0000000000000000 x26: 0000000000000000
> >>   [   48.558337] x25: 0000000000000000 x24: 0000000000000000
> >>   [   48.558754] x23: 0000000000000000 x22: 0000000000000000
> >>   [   48.558893] x21: 00000000004009b0 x20: 0000000000000000
> >>   [   48.559046] x19: 0000000000400ff0 x18: 0000000000000000
> >>   [   48.559180] x17: 0000ffff817da300 x16: 0000000000412010
> >>   [   48.559312] x15: 0000000000000000 x14: 000000000000001c
> >>   [   48.559443] x13: 656c626174756365 x12: 7865206b63617473
> >>   [   48.559625] x11: 0000000000000003 x10: 0101010101010101
> >>   [   48.559828] x9 : 0000ffff818afda8 x8 : 0000000000000081
> >>   [   48.559973] x7 : 6174732065687420 x6 : 64657070616d6552
> >>   [   48.560115] x5 : 000000000e0388bd x4 : 000000000040135d
> >>   [   48.560270] x3 : 0000000000000000 x2 : 0000000000000001
> >>   [   48.560412] x1 : 0000000000000003 x0 : 00000000004120b8
> >>   Segmentation fault
> >>   #
> >>
> >> So I think we need to keep the unmap hook. Maybe it should be handled by
> >> the special_mapping stuff generically.
> >
> > I'll cook a patch for vm_special_mapping if you don't mind :-)
> 
> That would be great, thanks!

I lost track of this one. Is there a patch kicking around to resolve this,
or is the segfault expected behaviour?

Will