Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 20 Aug 2011 22:55:45 +0200 | From | Richard Weinberger <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] weird crap with vdso on uml/i386 |
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Am 20.08.2011 22:14, schrieb Al Viro: > On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 05:22:23PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote: > >> Hmmm, very strange. >> Sadly I cannot reproduce the issue. :( >> Everything works fine within UML. >> (Of course I've applied your vDSO/i386 patches) >> >> My test setup: >> Host kernel: 2.6.37 and 3.0.1 >> Distro: openSUSE 11.4/x86_64 >> >> UML kernel: 3.1-rc2 >> Distro: openSUSE 11.1/i386 >> >> Does the problem also occur with another host kernel or a different >> guest image? > > Could you check what you get in __kernel_vsyscall()? On iAMD64 box > where that sucker contains sysenter-based variant the bug is not > present. IOW, it's sensitive to syscall vs. systenter vs. int 0x80 > differences.
OK, this explains why I cannot reproduce it. My Intel Core2 box is sysenter-based.
(gdb) disass __kernel_vsyscall 0xffffe420 <__kernel_vsyscall+0>: push %ecx 0xffffe421 <__kernel_vsyscall+1>: push %edx 0xffffe422 <__kernel_vsyscall+2>: push %ebp 0xffffe423 <__kernel_vsyscall+3>: mov %esp,%ebp 0xffffe425 <__kernel_vsyscall+5>: sysenter 0xffffe427 <__kernel_vsyscall+7>: nop 0xffffe428 <__kernel_vsyscall+8>: nop 0xffffe429 <__kernel_vsyscall+9>: nop 0xffffe42a <__kernel_vsyscall+10>: nop 0xffffe42b <__kernel_vsyscall+11>: nop 0xffffe42c <__kernel_vsyscall+12>: nop 0xffffe42d <__kernel_vsyscall+13>: nop 0xffffe42e <__kernel_vsyscall+14>: jmp 0xffffe423<__kernel_vsyscall+3> 0xffffe430 <__kernel_vsyscall+16>: pop %ebp 0xffffe431 <__kernel_vsyscall+17>: pop %edx 0xffffe432 <__kernel_vsyscall+18>: pop %ecx 0xffffe433 <__kernel_vsyscall+19>: ret
> I can throw the trimmed-down fs image your way, BTW (66MB of bzipped ext2 ;-/) > if you want to see if that gets reproduced on your box. I'll drop it on > anonftp if you are interested. FWIW, the same kernel binary/same image > result in > * K7 box - no breakage, SYSENTER-based vdso > * K8 box - breakage as described, SYSCALL-based vdso32 > * P4 box - no breakage, SYSENTER-based vdso32 > Hell knows... In theory that would seem to point towards ia32_cstar_target(), > so I'm going to RTFS carefully through that animal.
Now I'm testing with a Debian fs from: http://fs.devloop.org.uk/filesystems/Debian-Squeeze/
> The thing is, whatever happens happens when victim gets resumed inside > vdso page. I'll try to dump PTRACE_SETREGS and see the values host > kernel asked to set and work from there, but the interesting part is > bloody hard to singlestep through - the victim is back to user mode and > it is already traced by the guest kernel, so it's not as if we could > attach host gdb to it and walk through that crap. And guest gdb is not > going to be able to set breakpoints in there - vdso page is r/o...
[ CC'ing luto@mit.edu ] Andy, do you have an idea? You can find Al's original report here: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=131380315624244&w=2
Thanks, //richard
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