indeed!
neither does my auto-test :-/
Suspend/resume goes from SMP to UP and then back - and triggers all the
instrument patching code. I suspect we should/could have seen similar
problems with a pure CPU hotplug stress-test, on a modular kernel.
yeah.
incidentally, this bug was fixed by Mathieu yesterday but the full
impact of the bug was not realized. Below is that patch from
sched-devel.
i'm wondering what the best sanity checking would be. What we want is to
be sure the patch we modify is truly a kernel or module text page.
Perhaps we should start marking all kernel/module text pages with
PageReserved? That way we can not corrupt any userspace/pagecache page.
(and we'd clear PageReserved on module unload)
Ingo
------------------------->
Subject: Fix sched-devel text_poke
From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:03:33 -0400
Use core_text_address() instead of kernel_text_address(). Deal with modules in
the same way used for the core kernel.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++--------------------
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
Index: linux/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
+++ linux/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
@@ -511,31 +511,29 @@ void *__kprobes text_poke(void *addr, co
unsigned long flags;
char *vaddr;
int nr_pages = 2;
+ struct page *pages[2];
+ int i;
- BUG_ON(len > sizeof(long));
- BUG_ON((((long)addr + len - 1) & ~(sizeof(long) - 1))
- - ((long)addr & ~(sizeof(long) - 1)));
- if (kernel_text_address((unsigned long)addr)) {
- struct page *pages[2] = { virt_to_page(addr),
- virt_to_page(addr + PAGE_SIZE) };
- if (!pages[1])
- nr_pages = 1;
- vaddr = vmap(pages, nr_pages, VM_MAP, PAGE_KERNEL);
- BUG_ON(!vaddr);
- local_irq_save(flags);
- memcpy(&vaddr[(unsigned long)addr & ~PAGE_MASK], opcode, len);
- local_irq_restore(flags);
- vunmap(vaddr);
+ if (!core_kernel_text((unsigned long)addr)) {
+ pages[0] = vmalloc_to_page(addr);
+ pages[1] = vmalloc_to_page(addr + PAGE_SIZE);
} else {
- /*
- * modules are in vmalloc'ed memory, always writable.
- */
- local_irq_save(flags);
- memcpy(addr, opcode, len);
- local_irq_restore(flags);
+ pages[0] = virt_to_page(addr);
+ pages[1] = virt_to_page(addr + PAGE_SIZE);
}
+ BUG_ON(!pages[0]);
+ if (!pages[1])
+ nr_pages = 1;
+ vaddr = vmap(pages, nr_pages, VM_MAP, PAGE_KERNEL);
+ BUG_ON(!vaddr);
+ local_irq_save(flags);
+ memcpy(&vaddr[(unsigned long)addr & ~PAGE_MASK], opcode, len);
+ local_irq_restore(flags);
+ vunmap(vaddr);
sync_core();
/* Could also do a CLFLUSH here to speed up CPU recovery; but
that causes hangs on some VIA CPUs. */
+ for (i = 0; i < len; i++)
+ BUG_ON(((char *)addr)[i] != ((char *)opcode)[i]);
return addr;
}
--
