Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Apr 2011 22:45:53 -0400 (EDT) | From | Stephen Powell <> | Subject | Re: [OOPS s390] Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference at virtual kernel address (null) |
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On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 02:34:01 -0400 (EDT), Heiko Carstens wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> I installed linux-image-2.6.38-2-s390x version 2.6.38-3 on my up-to-date Wheezy >> system today. It runs in a virtual machine under z/VM 5.4.0 running in an LPAR >> on an IBM z/890. It IPLed just fine. After the IPL, the system fell idle for a while. >> Then a CRON job kicked off, which caused a page fault, which caused a kernel oops. >> Here is the log: >> ... > > Ok, I was able to reproduce it and could verify that my patch fixes the bug. > Thanks for reporting! The patch below will go upstream:
Great! That's confirming evidence! Thanks Heiko, Jonathan, Jan, and all others who contributed.
> > Subject: [S390] pfault: fix token handling > > From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> > > f6649a7e "[S390] cleanup lowcore access from external interrupts" changed > handling of external interrupts. Instead of letting the external interrupt > handlers accessing the per cpu lowcore the entry code of the kernel reads > already all fields that are necessary and passes them to the handlers. > The pfault interrupt handler was incorrectly converted. It tries to > dereference a value which used to be a pointer to a lowcore field. After > the conversion however it is not anymore the pointer to the field but its > content. So instead of a dereference only a cast is needed to get the > task pointer that caused the pfault. > > Fixes a NULL pointer dereference and a subsequent kernel crash: > > Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference at virtual kernel address (null) > Oops: 0004 [#1] SMP > Modules linked in: nfsd exportfs nfs lockd fscache nfs_acl auth_rpcgss sunrpc > loop qeth_l3 qeth vmur ccwgroup ext3 jbd mbcache dm_mod > dasd_eckd_mod dasd_diag_mod dasd_mod > CPU: 0 Not tainted 2.6.38-2-s390x #1 > Process cron (pid: 1106, task: 000000001f962f78, ksp: 000000001fa0f9d0) > Krnl PSW : 0404200180000000 000000000002c03e (pfault_interrupt+0xa2/0x138) > R:0 T:1 IO:0 EX:0 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:0 CC:2 PM:0 EA:3 > Krnl GPRS: 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 > 000000001f962f78 0000000000518968 0000000090000002 000000001ff03280 > 0000000000000000 000000000064f000 000000001f962f78 0000000000002603 > 0000000006002603 0000000000000000 000000001ff7fe68 000000001ff7fe48 > Krnl Code: 000000000002c036: 5820d010 l %r2,16(%r13) > 000000000002c03a: 1832 lr %r3,%r2 > 000000000002c03c: 1a31 ar %r3,%r1 > >000000000002c03e: ba23d010 cs %r2,%r3,16(%r13) > 000000000002c042: a744fffc brc 4,2c03a > 000000000002c046: a7290002 lghi %r2,2 > 000000000002c04a: e320d0000024 stg %r2,0(%r13) > 000000000002c050: 07f0 bcr 15,%r0 > Call Trace: > ([<000000001f962f78>] 0x1f962f78) > [<000000000001acda>] do_extint+0xf6/0x138 > [<000000000039b6ca>] ext_no_vtime+0x30/0x34 > [<000000007d706e04>] 0x7d706e04 > Last Breaking-Event-Address: > [<0000000000000000>] 0x0 > > For stable maintainers: > the first kernel which contains this bug is 2.6.37. > > Reported-by: Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com> > Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> > Cc: stable@kernel.org > Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> > --- > > arch/s390/mm/fault.c | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/s390/mm/fault.c b/arch/s390/mm/fault.c > index 9217e33..4cf85fe 100644 > --- a/arch/s390/mm/fault.c > +++ b/arch/s390/mm/fault.c > @@ -558,9 +558,9 @@ static void pfault_interrupt(unsigned int ext_int_code, > * Get the token (= address of the task structure of the affected task). > */ > #ifdef CONFIG_64BIT > - tsk = *(struct task_struct **) param64; > + tsk = (struct task_struct *) param64; > #else > - tsk = *(struct task_struct **) param32; > + tsk = (struct task_struct *) param32; > #endif > > if (subcode & 0x0080) {
-- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-
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