On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 4:15 PM, H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com> wrote:
> On 01/14/2014 04:51 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 03:53:31PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>>> Hi Andrew,
>>>
>>> Today's linux-next merge of the akpm-current tree got a conflict in
>>> kernel/futex.c between commit a52b89ebb6d4 ("futexes: Increase hash table
>>> size for better performance") from the tip tree and commit 61beee6c76e5
>>> ("futex: switch to USER_DS for futex test") from the akpm-current tree.
>>>
>>> @@@ -2869,10 -2748,13 +2871,13 @@@
>>> * implementation, the non-functional ones will return
>>> * -ENOSYS.
>>> */
>>> + fs = get_fs();
>>> + set_fs(USER_DS);
>>> if (cmpxchg_futex_value_locked(&curval, NULL, 0, 0) == -EFAULT)
>>> futex_cmpxchg_enabled = 1;
>>> + set_fs(fs);
>>>
>>
>> This seems terribly broken, the *futex_value*() ops should not need
>> that; they are supposed to access userspace without any of that.
>
> I am *guessing* that m68k is has get_fs() == KERNEL_DS at the point that
> futex_init() is called. This would seem a bit of a peculiarity to m68k,
> and as such it would seem like it would be better for it to belong in
> the m68k-specific code, but since futex_init() is init code and only
> called once anyway it shouldn't cause any harm...
Yes it does. So when getting the exception on 68030, we notice it's a kernel
space access error, not a user space access error, and crash.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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