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    x86: fix endless page faults in mount_block_root for Linux 2.6 · b29c701d
    Henry Nestler authored
    Page faults in kernel address space between PAGE_OFFSET up to
    VMALLOC_START should not try to map as vmalloc.
    
    Fix rarely endless page faults inside mount_block_root for root
    filesystem at boot time.
    
    All 32bit kernels up to 2.6.25 can fail into this hole.
    I can not present this under native linux kernel. I see, that the 64bit
    has fixed the problem. I copied the same lines into 32bit part.
    
    Recorded debugs are from coLinux kernel 2.6.22.18 (virtualisation):
    http://www.henrynestler.com/colinux/testing/pfn-check-0.7.3/20080410-antinx/bug16-recursive-page-fault-endless.txt
    The physicaly memory was trimmed down to 192MB to better catch the bug.
    More memory gets the bug more rarely.
    
    Details, how every x86 32bit system can fail:
    
    Start from "mount_block_root",
    http://lxr.linux.no/linux/init/do_mounts.c#L297
    There the variable "fs_names" got one memory page with 4096 bytes.
    Variable "p" walks through the existing file system types. The first
    string is no problem.
    But, with the second loop in mount_block_root the offset of "p" is not
    at beginning of page, the offset is for example +9, if "reiserfs" is the
    first in list.
    Than calls do_mount_root, and lands in sys_mount.
    Remember: Variable "type_page" contains now "fs_type+9" and not contains
    a full page.
    The sys_mount copies 4096 bytes with function "exact_copy_from_user()":
    http://lxr.linux.no/linux/fs/namespace.c#L1540
    
    Mostly exist pages after the buffer "fs_names+4096+9" and the page fault
    handler was not called. No problem.
    
    In the case, if the page after "fs_names+4096" is not mapped, the page
    fault handler was called from http://lxr.linux.no/linux/fs/namespace.c#L1320
    
    The do_page_fault gots an address 0xc03b4000.
    It's kernel address, address >= TASK_SIZE, but not from vmalloc! It's
    from "__getname()" alias "kmem_cache_alloc".
    The "error_code" is 0. "vmalloc_fault" will be call:
    http://lxr.linux.no/linux/arch/i386/mm/fault.c#L332
    
    "vmalloc_fault" tryed to find the physical page for a non existing
    virtual memory area. The macro "pte_present" in vmalloc_fault()
    got a next page fault for 0xc0000ed0 at:
    http://lxr.linux.no/linux/arch/i386/mm/fault.c#L282
    
    
    
    No PTE exist for such virtual address. The page fault handler was trying
    to sync the physical page for the PTE lockup.
    
    This called vmalloc_fault() again for address 0xc000000, and that also
    was not existing. The endless began...
    
    In normal case the cpu would still loop with disabled interrrupts. Under
    coLinux this was catched by a stack overflow inside printk debugs.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHenry Nestler <henry.nestler@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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