On 4/26/19 11:14 PM, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
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> On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 9:38 PM He Zhe <zhe...@windriver.com 
> <mailto:zhe...@windriver.com>> wrote:
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>     On 4/24/19 8:34 PM, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     > On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 3:47 AM He Zhe <zhe...@windriver.com 
> <mailto:zhe...@windriver.com> <mailto:zhe...@windriver.com 
> <mailto:zhe...@windriver.com>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     This is for standard/base and all sub-level branches. For 
> explanation, see the
>     >     bottom of the commit log I append.
>     >
>     >
>     > Which kernel versions ? I didn't notice a version it the shortlog or 
> temporary section, but I may have overlooked it.
>
>     >From 4.19 to 5.0
>
>
> Thanks, this is now merged.

This is missing on v5.0/standard/intel-x86.

Zhe

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> Bruce
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>     Zhe
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>     >
>     > Bruce
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>     >
>     >     Zhe
>     >
>     >     On 4/24/19 3:42 PM, zhe...@windriver.com 
> <mailto:zhe...@windriver.com> <mailto:zhe...@windriver.com 
> <mailto:zhe...@windriver.com>> wrote:
>     >     > From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rost...@goodmis.org 
> <mailto:rost...@goodmis.org> <mailto:rost...@goodmis.org 
> <mailto:rost...@goodmis.org>>>
>     >     >
>     >     > He Zhe reported a crash by enabling trace events and selecting
>     >     > "userstacktrace" which will read the stack of userspace for every 
> trace
>     >     > event recorded. Zhe narrowed it down to:
>     >     >
>     >     >  c3bc8fd637a9 ("tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and 
> unify their usage")
>     >     >
>     >     > With the problem config, I was able to also reproduce the error. I
>     >     > narrowed it down to just having to do the following:
>     >     >
>     >     >  # cd /sys/kernel/tracing
>     >     >  # echo 1 > options/userstacktrace
>     >     >  # echo 1 > events/preemptirq/irq_disable/enable
>     >     >
>     >     > And sure enough, I triggered a crash. Well, it was systemd 
> crashing
>     >     > with a bad memory access??
>     >     >
>     >     >  systemd-journal[537]: segfault at ed8cb8 ip 00007f7fffc9fef5 sp 
> 00007ffc4062cb10 error 7
>     >     >
>     >     > And it would crash similarly each time I tried it, but always at a
>     >     > different place. After spending the day on this, I finally 
> figured it
>     >     > out. The bug is happening in entry_64.S right after error_entry.
>     >     > There's two TRACE_IRQS_OFF in that code path, which if I comment 
> out,
>     >     > the bug goes away. Then it dawned on me that the crash always 
> happens
>     >     > when systemd does a normal page fault. We had this bug before, 
> and it
>     >     > was with the exception trace points.
>     >     >
>     >     > The issue is that a tracepoint can fault (reading vmalloc or 
> whatever).
>     >     > And doing a userspace stack trace most definitely will fault. But 
> if we
>     >     > are coming from a legitimate page fault, the address of that 
> fault (in
>     >     > the CR2 register) will be lost if we fault before we get to the 
> page
>     >     > fault handler. That's exactly what is happening.
>     >     >
>     >     > To solve this, a TRACE_IRQS_OFF_CR2 (and ON for consistency) was 
> added
>     >     > that saves the CR2 register. A new trace_hardirqs_off_thunk_cr2 is
>     >     > created that stores the cr2 register, calls the
>     >     > trace_hardirqs_off_caller, then on return restores the cr2 
> register if
>     >     > it changed, before returning.
>     >     >
>     >     > On my tests this fixes the issue. I just want to know if this is a
>     >     > legitimate fix or if someone can come up with a better fix?
>     >     >
>     >     > Note: this also saves the exception context just like the
>     >     > do_page_fault() function does.
>     >     >
>     >     > Note2: This only gets enabled when lockdep or irq tracing is 
> enabled,
>     >     > which is not recommended for production environments.
>     >     >
>     >     > Link: 
> http://lkml.kernel.org/r/897cf5cf-fc24-8a64-cb28-847f2d2e6...@windriver.com
>     >     >
>     >     > Fixes: c3bc8fd637a9 ("tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints 
> and unify their usage")
>     >     > Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rost...@goodmis.org 
> <mailto:rost...@goodmis.org> <mailto:rost...@goodmis.org 
> <mailto:rost...@goodmis.org>>>
>     >     >
>     >     > Link: 
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190320221534.165ab...@oasis.local.home/
>     >     >
>     >     > This might not be the final solution. But the upstream thread has 
> stopped over
>     >     > a month and there is unlikely a final solution in the near future.
>     >     >
>     >     > Since the diff looks quite clear and does not affect other 
> functions. It should
>     >     > be worth adding this initial patch from the maintainer.
>     >     >
>     >     > Signed-off-by: He Zhe <zhe...@windriver.com 
> <mailto:zhe...@windriver.com> <mailto:zhe...@windriver.com 
> <mailto:zhe...@windriver.com>>>
>     >     > ---
>     >     >  arch/x86/entry/common.c         | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>     >     >  arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S       |  4 ++--
>     >     >  arch/x86/entry/thunk_64.S       |  2 ++
>     >     >  arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h |  4 ++++
>     >     >  4 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>     >     >
>     >     > diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/common.c b/arch/x86/entry/common.c
>     >     > index 7bc105f..7edffec 100644
>     >     > --- a/arch/x86/entry/common.c
>     >     > +++ b/arch/x86/entry/common.c
>     >     > @@ -292,6 +292,32 @@ __visible void do_syscall_64(unsigned long 
> nr, struct pt_regs *regs)
>     >     > 
>     >     >       syscall_return_slowpath(regs);
>     >     >  }
>     >     > +
>     >     > +extern void trace_hardirqs_on_caller(unsigned long caller_addr);
>     >     > +__visible void trace_hardirqs_on_caller_cr2(unsigned long 
> caller_addr)
>     >     > +{
>     >     > +     unsigned long address = read_cr2(); /* Get the faulting 
> address */
>     >     > +     enum ctx_state prev_state;
>     >     > +
>     >     > +     prev_state = exception_enter();
>     >     > +     trace_hardirqs_on_caller(caller_addr);
>     >     > +     if (address != read_cr2())
>     >     > +             write_cr2(address);
>     >     > +     exception_exit(prev_state);
>     >     > +}
>     >     > +
>     >     > +extern void trace_hardirqs_off_caller(unsigned long caller_addr);
>     >     > +__visible void trace_hardirqs_off_caller_cr2(unsigned long 
> caller_addr)
>     >     > +{
>     >     > +     unsigned long address = read_cr2(); /* Get the faulting 
> address */
>     >     > +     enum ctx_state prev_state;
>     >     > +
>     >     > +     prev_state = exception_enter();
>     >     > +     trace_hardirqs_off_caller(caller_addr);
>     >     > +     if (address != read_cr2())
>     >     > +             write_cr2(address);
>     >     > +     exception_exit(prev_state);
>     >     > +}
>     >     >  #endif
>     >     > 
>     >     >  #if defined(CONFIG_X86_32) || defined(CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION)
>     >     > diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
>     >     > index 1f0efdb..73ddf24 100644
>     >     > --- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
>     >     > +++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S
>     >     > @@ -1248,12 +1248,12 @@ ENTRY(error_entry)
>     >     >        * we fix gsbase, and we should do it before 
> enter_from_user_mode
>     >     >        * (which can take locks).
>     >     >        */
>     >     > -     TRACE_IRQS_OFF
>     >     > +     TRACE_IRQS_OFF_CR2
>     >     >       CALL_enter_from_user_mode
>     >     >       ret
>     >     > 
>     >     >  .Lerror_entry_done:
>     >     > -     TRACE_IRQS_OFF
>     >     > +     TRACE_IRQS_OFF_CR2
>     >     >       ret
>     >     > 
>     >     >       /*
>     >     > diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/thunk_64.S b/arch/x86/entry/thunk_64.S
>     >     > index be36bf4..1300b53 100644
>     >     > --- a/arch/x86/entry/thunk_64.S
>     >     > +++ b/arch/x86/entry/thunk_64.S
>     >     > @@ -41,6 +41,8 @@
>     >     >  #ifdef CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS
>     >     >       THUNK trace_hardirqs_on_thunk,trace_hardirqs_on_caller,1
>     >     >       THUNK trace_hardirqs_off_thunk,trace_hardirqs_off_caller,1
>     >     > +     THUNK 
> trace_hardirqs_on_thunk_cr2,trace_hardirqs_on_caller_cr2,1
>     >     > +     THUNK 
> trace_hardirqs_off_thunk_cr2,trace_hardirqs_off_caller_cr2,1
>     >     >  #endif
>     >     > 
>     >     >  #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
>     >     > diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h 
> b/arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h
>     >     > index 058e40f..dd51174 100644
>     >     > --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h
>     >     > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h
>     >     > @@ -172,9 +172,13 @@ static inline int arch_irqs_disabled(void)
>     >     >  #ifdef CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS
>     >     >  #  define TRACE_IRQS_ON              call 
> trace_hardirqs_on_thunk;
>     >     >  #  define TRACE_IRQS_OFF     call trace_hardirqs_off_thunk;
>     >     > +#  define TRACE_IRQS_ON_CR2  call trace_hardirqs_on_thunk_cr2;
>     >     > +#  define TRACE_IRQS_OFF_CR2 call trace_hardirqs_off_thunk_cr2;
>     >     >  #else
>     >     >  #  define TRACE_IRQS_ON
>     >     >  #  define TRACE_IRQS_OFF
>     >     > +#  define TRACE_IRQS_ON_CR2
>     >     > +#  define TRACE_IRQS_OFF_CR2
>     >     >  #endif
>     >     >  #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
>     >     >  #  ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > --
>     > - Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer, for chaos and madness await 
> thee at its end
>     > - "Use the force Harry" - Gandalf, Star Trek II
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> -- 
> - Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer, for chaos and madness await thee at 
> its end
> - "Use the force Harry" - Gandalf, Star Trek II
>

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