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Message-ID: <CAASaF6xsMOWkhPrzKQWNz5SXaROSpxzFVBz+MOA-MNiEBty7gQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2025 23:57:02 +0200
From: Jan Stancek <jstancek@...hat.com>
To: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com>, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
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Nam Cao <namcao@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/19] vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare do_hres_timens() for
introduction of struct vdso_clock
On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM Thomas Weißschuh
<thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 04:10:04PM +0200, Jan Stancek wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 03, 2025 at 12:11:10PM +0100, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> > > From: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@...utronix.de>
> > >
> > > To support multiple PTP clocks, the VDSO data structure needs to be
> > > reworked. All clock specific data will end up in struct vdso_clock and in
> > > struct vdso_time_data there will be array of it. By now, vdso_clock is
> > > simply a define which maps vdso_clock to vdso_time_data.
> > >
> > > Prepare for the rework of these structures by adding struct vdso_clock
> > > pointer argument to do_hres_timens(), and replace the struct vdso_time_data
> > > pointer with the new pointer arugment whenever applicable.
> > >
> > > No functional change.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@...utronix.de>
> > > Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@...utronix.de>
> > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>
> > > ---
> > > lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++-----------------
> > > 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> > >
> >
> > starting with this patch, I'm seeing user-space crashes when using clock_gettime():
> > BAD -> 83a2a6b8cfc5 vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare do_hres_timens() for introduction of struct vdso_clock
> > GOOD -> 64c3613ce31a vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare do_hres() for introduction of struct vdso_clock
> >
> > It appears to be unique to aarch64 with 64k pages, and can be reproduced with
> > LTP clock_gettime03 [1]:
> > command: clock_gettime03 tst_kconfig.c:88: TINFO: Parsing kernel config '/lib/modules/6.15.0-0.rc3.20250423gitbc3372351d0c.30.eln147.aarch64+64k/build/.config'
> > tst_test.c:1903: TINFO: LTP version: 20250130-231-gd02c2aea3
> > tst_test.c:1907: TINFO: Tested kernel: 6.15.0-0.rc3.20250423gitbc3372351d0c.30.eln147.aarch64+64k #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Apr 23 23:23:54 UTC 2025 aarch64
> > tst_kconfig.c:88: TINFO: Parsing kernel config '/lib/modules/6.15.0-0.rc3.20250423gitbc3372351d0c.30.eln147.aarch64+64k/build/.config'
> > tst_test.c:1720: TINFO: Overall timeout per run is 0h 05m 24s
> > clock_gettime03.c:121: TINFO: Testing variant: vDSO or syscall with libc spec
> > clock_gettime03.c:76: TPASS: Offset (CLOCK_MONOTONIC) is correct 10000ms
> > clock_gettime03.c:86: TPASS: Offset (CLOCK_MONOTONIC) is correct 0ms
> > clock_gettime03.c:76: TPASS: Offset (CLOCK_BOOTTIME) is correct 10000ms
> > clock_gettime03.c:86: TPASS: Offset (CLOCK_BOOTTIME) is correct 0ms
> > clock_gettime03.c:76: TPASS: Offset (CLOCK_MONOTONIC) is correct -10000ms
> > clock_gettime03.c:86: TPASS: Offset (CLOCK_MONOTONIC) is correct 0ms
> > clock_gettime03.c:76: TPASS: Offset (CLOCK_BOOTTIME) is correct -10000ms
> > clock_gettime03.c:86: TPASS: Offset (CLOCK_BOOTTIME) is correct 0ms
> > tst_test.c:438: TBROK: Child (233649) killed by signal SIGSEGV
> >
> > or with:
> > --------------------- 8< ----------------------
> > #define _GNU_SOURCE
> > #include <sched.h>
> > #include <time.h>
> > #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/wait.h>
> >
> > int main(void)
> > {
> > struct timespec tp;
> > pid_t child;
> > int status;
> >
> > unshare(CLONE_NEWTIME);
> >
> > child = fork();
> > if (child == 0) {
> > clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW, &tp);
> > }
> >
> > wait(&status);
> > return status;
> > }
> >
> > # ./a.out ; echo $?
> > 139
> > --------------------- >8 ----------------------
> >
> > RPMs and configs can be found at Fedora koji, latest build is at [2] (look for kernel-64k).
>
> Hi Jan,
>
> Thanks for the great error report.
>
> Can you try the following change (on top of v6.15-rc1, should also work with current master)?
>
> diff --git a/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c b/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c
> index 93ef801a97ef..867ce53cca94 100644
> --- a/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c
> +++ b/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c
> @@ -85,14 +85,18 @@ static __always_inline
> int do_hres_timens(const struct vdso_time_data *vdns, const struct vdso_clock *vcns,
> clockid_t clk, struct __kernel_timespec *ts)
> {
> - const struct vdso_time_data *vd = __arch_get_vdso_u_timens_data(vdns);
> const struct timens_offset *offs = &vcns->offset[clk];
> - const struct vdso_clock *vc = vd->clock_data;
> + const struct vdso_time_data *vd;
> + const struct vdso_clock *vc;
> const struct vdso_timestamp *vdso_ts;
> u64 cycles, ns;
> u32 seq;
> s64 sec;
>
> + vd = vdns - (clk == CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW ? CS_RAW : CS_HRES_COARSE);
> + vd = __arch_get_vdso_u_timens_data(vd);
> + vc = vd->clock_data;
> +
> if (clk != CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW)
> vc = &vc[CS_HRES_COARSE];
> else
>
>
> I'll do some proper testing tomorrow.
That does seem to work for the 2 reproducers I have.
But why is this change needed? Isn't 'vdns' here equal to 'vdso_u_time_data'?
>
>
> Thomas
>
> > [1] https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/blob/master/testcases/kernel/syscalls/clock_gettime/clock_gettime03.c
> > [2] https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=2704401
>
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