Message-ID: <20220415142112.GA2714323@roeck-us.net>
Date:   Fri, 15 Apr 2022 07:21:12 -0700
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:     Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>,
        Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@...il.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Jerome Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@...gle.com>,
        Alistair Popple <apopple@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 03/23] mm: Check against orig_pte for finish_fault()

Hi,

On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 09:48:36PM -0400, Peter Xu wrote:
> We used to check against none pte in finish_fault(), with the assumption
> that the orig_pte is always none pte.
> 
> This change prepares us to be able to call do_fault() on !none ptes.  For
> example, we should allow that to happen for pte marker so that we can restore
> information out of the pte markers.
> 
> Let's change the "pte_none" check into detecting changes since we fetched
> orig_pte.  One trivial thing to take care of here is, when pmd==NULL for
> the pgtable we may not initialize orig_pte at all in handle_pte_fault().
> 
> By default orig_pte will be all zeros however the problem is not all
> architectures are using all-zeros for a none pte.  pte_clear() will be the
> right thing to use here so that we'll always have a valid orig_pte value
> for the whole handle_pte_fault() call.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>

This patch crashes pretty much all arm images in linux-next. Reverting it
fixes the problem. Sample crash log and bisect results attached.

Guenter

---
[   11.232343] 8<--- cut here ---
[   11.232564] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 88016664
[   11.232735] [88016664] *pgd=41cfd811, *pte=00000000, *ppte=00000000
[   11.233128] Internal error: Oops: 807 [#1] ARM
[   11.233385] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.18.0-rc2-next-20220414 #1
[   11.233564] Hardware name: Generic DT based system
[   11.233695] PC is at cpu_arm926_set_pte_ext+0x2c/0x40
[   11.233863] LR is at handle_mm_fault+0x4b0/0x11a8
[   11.233963] pc : [<8010e60c>]    lr : [<802944ec>]    psr: 00000113
[   11.234080] sp : 88015e20  ip : 88015e7c  fp : 00000492
[   11.234179] r10: 00000000  r9 : 00000000  r8 : 81167e50
[   11.234280] r7 : 00000000  r6 : 00000081  r5 : 7efffff1  r4 : 83034690
[   11.234402] r3 : 00000043  r2 : 00000000  r1 : 00000000  r0 : 88016664
[   11.234549] Flags: nzcv  IRQs on  FIQs on  Mode SVC_32  ISA ARM  Segment none
[   11.234691] Control: 00093177  Table: 40004000  DAC: 00000053
[   11.234816] Register r0 information: non-paged memory
[   11.235031] Register r1 information: NULL pointer
[   11.235127] Register r2 information: NULL pointer
[   11.235219] Register r3 information: non-paged memory
[   11.235316] Register r4 information: slab vm_area_struct start 83034688 data offset 8 pointer offset 0 allocated at vm_area_alloc+0x20/0x5c
[   11.235825]     kmem_cache_alloc+0x1fc/0x21c
[   11.235926]     vm_area_alloc+0x20/0x5c
[   11.236007]     alloc_bprm+0xd0/0x298
[   11.236082]     kernel_execve+0x34/0x194
[   11.236159]     kernel_init+0x6c/0x138
[   11.236235]     ret_from_fork+0x14/0x3c
[   11.236330] Register r5 information: non-paged memory
[   11.236432] Register r6 information: non-paged memory
[   11.236529] Register r7 information: NULL pointer
[   11.236620] Register r8 information: non-slab/vmalloc memory
[   11.236741] Register r9 information: NULL pointer
[   11.236833] Register r10 information: NULL pointer
[   11.236926] Register r11 information: non-paged memory
[   11.237023] Register r12 information: 2-page vmalloc region starting at 0x88014000 allocated at kernel_clone+0xa0/0x440
[   11.237253] Process swapper (pid: 1, stack limit = 0x88014000)
[   11.237388] Stack: (0x88015e20 to 0x88016000)
[   11.237518] 5e20: ffffffff fffffffe 81d29be0 00000000 a0000193 00000000 81d2a1e8 00007f7e
[   11.237670] 5e40: 816580a8 83034690 00000cc0 0007efff 7efff000 7efffff1 00000081 83199fb8
[   11.237814] 5e60: 83199fb8 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0a363e34
[   11.237957] 5e80: 88015ea4 83034690 7efffff1 00002017 00000081 81f4dd00 00001fb8 00000000
[   11.238100] 5ea0: 00000492 8028d160 00000000 81d29be0 00000001 00002017 80deedcc 81d29be0
[   11.238241] 5ec0: 00000000 81f4dd00 7efffff1 88015f38 81f4dd60 00002017 00000000 8028d64c
[   11.238383] 5ee0: 88015f38 00000000 00000000 7efffff1 81f4dd00 00000000 00000001 00000000
[   11.238524] 5f00: 00000011 82d80800 00000001 7efffff1 81f4dd00 00000011 7efffff1 0000000b
[   11.238666] 5f20: 82d80800 802ca218 88015f38 00000000 00000000 000001d3 80e0b43c 0a363e34
[   11.238808] 5f40: 00000ffc 82d80800 81d73140 81d29be0 0000000b 802cb390 81d7315b 802ca0bc
[   11.238950] 5f60: 8110c940 0000000c 82d80800 81d73140 8110c8b0 8110c93c 00000000 00000000
[   11.239091] 5f80: 00000000 802cbf44 81107820 8110c8b0 00000000 00000000 00000000 80b05400
[   11.239234] 5fa0: 00000000 80b05394 00000000 801000f8 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[   11.239376] 5fc0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[   11.239518] 5fe0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000013 00000000 00000000 00000000
[   11.239770] Code: e31300c0 03822e55 e3130003 13a02000 (e5802000)
[   11.240097] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
[   11.240307] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception

--
# bad: [40354149f4d738dc3492d9998e45b3f02950369a] Add linux-next specific files for 20220414
# good: [ce522ba9ef7e2d9fb22a39eb3371c0c64e2a433e] Linux 5.18-rc2
git bisect start 'HEAD' 'v5.18-rc2'
# good: [0f52e407eccb0f7ed62fdd8907b0042f4195159e] Merge branch 'drm-next' of git://git.freedesktop.org/git/drm/drm.git
git bisect good 0f52e407eccb0f7ed62fdd8907b0042f4195159e
# good: [22b1b3a579c91a6afa945711eac72ab740b8f8e4] Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace.git
git bisect good 22b1b3a579c91a6afa945711eac72ab740b8f8e4
# good: [cbb5c08b3182cb498f67fa547392191a1d5622dd] Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vkoul/dmaengine.git
git bisect good cbb5c08b3182cb498f67fa547392191a1d5622dd
# good: [2acd94b759428825f0e8835fa24ad22c7b5c0e2c] Merge branch 'for-next/kspp' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git
git bisect good 2acd94b759428825f0e8835fa24ad22c7b5c0e2c
# bad: [d2d293faec99124d95590e88030ae3c8382fac7f] mm/shmem: persist uffd-wp bit across zapping for file-backed
git bisect bad d2d293faec99124d95590e88030ae3c8382fac7f
# good: [8cbcc910aec560e78e879cf82ed17e7e72d8a7d4] doc: update documentation for swap_activate and swap_rw
git bisect good 8cbcc910aec560e78e879cf82ed17e7e72d8a7d4
# good: [8c55a1ed1f9b95520b0307ba0ac6ff7f1aadfe9d] mm/page_alloc: simplify update of pgdat in wake_all_kswapds
git bisect good 8c55a1ed1f9b95520b0307ba0ac6ff7f1aadfe9d
# good: [3e68e467590511e2cf7f47194464a5512583f641] mm: hugetlb_vmemmap: cleanup CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP*
git bisect good 3e68e467590511e2cf7f47194464a5512583f641
# good: [3fb21f4e38824f4d8a183ffcccc03b357ad836d4] mm: mmap: register suitable readonly file vmas for khugepaged
git bisect good 3fb21f4e38824f4d8a183ffcccc03b357ad836d4
# bad: [fa600994916318341cf53e18769be547aa5975d2] mm: check against orig_pte for finish_fault()
git bisect bad fa600994916318341cf53e18769be547aa5975d2
# good: [1112411b72b5e9774897538260028a677d616779] fixup! mm: Introduce PTE_MARKER swap entry
git bisect good 1112411b72b5e9774897538260028a677d616779
# good: [1ae034d98f81a6cf8896b37c3dee9e099daeb3e7] mm: teach core mm about pte markers
git bisect good 1ae034d98f81a6cf8896b37c3dee9e099daeb3e7
# first bad commit: [fa600994916318341cf53e18769be547aa5975d2] mm: check against orig_pte for finish_fault()

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