Re: Crash (ext3 ) during 2.6.29-rc6 boot

From: Mark Nelson
Date: Wed Feb 25 2009 - 01:51:35 EST


On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:38:37 pm Sachin P. Sant wrote:
> Jan Kara wrote:
> > Hmm, OK. But then I'm not sure how that can happen. Obviously, memcpy
> > somehow got beyond end of the page referenced by bh->b_data. So it means
> > that le16_to_cpu(entry->e_value_offs) + size > page_size. But
> > ext3_xattr_find_entry() calls ext3_xattr_check_entry() which in
> > particular checks whether e_value_offs + e_value_size isn't greater than
> > bh->b_size. So I see no way how memcpy can get beyond end of the page.
> > Sachin, is the problem reproducible? If yes, can you send us contents
> >
> Yes, i am able to recreate this problem easily. As i had mentioned if the
> earlier kernel is booted with selinux enabled and then 2.6.29-rc6 is booted
> i get this crash. But if i specify selinux=0 at command line, 2.6.29-rc6 boots
> without any problem.

Hi Sanchin and Geert,

Does the patch below fix the problems you're seeing? If it does I'll send
a properly written up and formatted patch to linuxppc-dev (as well as
another one to fix the same problem in copy_tofrom_user()).

Thanks and sorry again!

Mark

---
arch/powerpc/lib/memcpy_64.S | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Index: upstream/arch/powerpc/lib/memcpy_64.S
===================================================================
--- upstream.orig/arch/powerpc/lib/memcpy_64.S
+++ upstream/arch/powerpc/lib/memcpy_64.S
@@ -53,18 +53,19 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_IFCLR(CPU_FTR_UNALIGNED_
3: std r8,8(r3)
beq 3f
addi r3,r3,16
- ld r9,8(r4)
.Ldo_tail:
bf cr7*4+1,1f
- rotldi r9,r9,32
+ lwz r9,8(r4)
+ addi r4,r4,4
stw r9,0(r3)
addi r3,r3,4
1: bf cr7*4+2,2f
- rotldi r9,r9,16
+ lhz r9,8(r4)
+ addi r4,r4,2
sth r9,0(r3)
addi r3,r3,2
2: bf cr7*4+3,3f
- rotldi r9,r9,8
+ lbz r9,8(r4)
stb r9,0(r3)
3: ld r3,48(r1) /* return dest pointer */
blr
@@ -133,11 +134,24 @@ END_FTR_SECTION_IFCLR(CPU_FTR_UNALIGNED_
cmpwi cr1,r5,8
addi r3,r3,32
sld r9,r9,r10
- ble cr1,.Ldo_tail
+ ble cr1,6f
ld r0,8(r4)
srd r7,r0,r11
or r9,r7,r9
- b .Ldo_tail
+6:
+ bf cr7*4+1,1f
+ rotldi r9,r9,32
+ stw r9,0(r3)
+ addi r3,r3,4
+1: bf cr7*4+2,2f
+ rotldi r9,r9,16
+ sth r9,0(r3)
+ addi r3,r3,2
+2: bf cr7*4+3,3f
+ rotldi r9,r9,8
+ stb r9,0(r3)
+3: ld r3,48(r1) /* return dest pointer */
+ blr

.Ldst_unaligned:
PPC_MTOCRF 0x01,r6 # put #bytes to 8B bdry into cr7
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