A bug about system call on ARM

[Wang, Yalin]

Hi  all,

I am a new comer to this mailing list ,
I am happy to join this community .

I have a bug reported from our android phones which is caused by  the system call .
It seems like kernel bugs from my view .

Crash in  file  arch\arm\kernel\ entry-common.S

/***************************************************************/

ENTRY(vector_swi)
	sub	sp, sp, #S_FRAME_SIZE
	stmia	sp, {r0 - r12}			@ Calling r0 - r12
 ARM(	add	r8, sp, #S_PC		)
 ARM(	stmdb	r8, {sp, lr}^		)	@ Calling sp, lr
 THUMB(	mov	r8, sp			)
 THUMB(	store_user_sp_lr r8, r10, S_SP	)	@ calling sp, lr
	mrs	r8, spsr			@ called from non-FIQ mode, so ok.
	str	lr, [sp, #S_PC]			@ Save calling PC
	str	r8, [sp, #S_PSR]		@ Save CPSR
	str	r0, [sp, #S_OLD_R0]		@ Save OLD_R0
	zero_fp

	/*
	 * Get the system call number.
	 */

#if defined(CONFIG_OABI_COMPAT)

	/*
	 * If we have CONFIG_OABI_COMPAT then we need to look at the swi
	 * value to determine if it is an EABI or an old ABI call.
	 */
#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_THUMB
	tst	r8, #PSR_T_BIT
	movne	r10, #0				@ no thumb OABI emulation
	ldreq	r10, [lr, #-4]			@ get SWI instruction          // crash at this instruction, when get SWI instruction
#else
	ldr	r10, [lr, #-4]			@ get SWI instruction
  A710(	and	ip, r10, #0x0f000000		@ check for SWI		)
  A710(	teq	ip, #0x0f000000						)
  A710(	bne	.Larm710bug						)
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_ENDIAN_BE8
	rev	r10, r10			@ little endian instruction
#endif

/***************************************************************************************************/

Then reason why it will crash when get SWI instruction is maybe 
This page is clear to aged by kernel,
But this MMU fault happpened in kernel,
So the kernel do_page_fault function will not clear this page to young,
So that  will crash .

It should poll this page to make it present or the fault should be handled by fixup section ,
Anyway, this place should not crash by kernel .

The kernel version I used  is  3.4.0
I have add the kernel log and the call stack recovered  by trace32 tools 
Pls have a look at it .


Thanks .


 
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Attachment: kernel.log
Description: kernel.log

	crash_noites_save_this_cpu(type = CRASH_NOTE_CRASHING = 0x2, cpu = 0x1)
	update_crash_notes(?, ?, ?)
	notifier_call_chain(?, val = 0x0, v = 0xC0ECBE9C, nr_to_call = 0x5, nr_calls = 0x0)
	__atomic_notifier_call_chain(nh = 0xC0ECC29C, val = 0x0, v = 0xC0ECBE9C, nr_to_call = 0xFFFFFFFF, nr_calls = 0x0)
	atomic_notifier_call_chain(?, ?, ?)
	panic(fmt = 0xC098BC02)
	die(?, regs = 0xE0601F68, err = 0x17)
	__do_kernel_fault.part.8(mm = 0xC73E7DC0, addr = 0x4020841C, fsr = 0x17, regs = 0xE0601F68)
	do_page_fault(addr = 0xC73E7DC0, fsr = 0x17, regs = 0x4020841C)
	do_DataAbort(addr = 0x4020841C, fsr = 0x17, regs = 0xE0601F68)
	__dabt_svc(asm)
	exception
	vector_swi(asm)
	ret_fast_syscall(asm)
	exception
	NUR:0xFFFF:0x40208420(asm)
	end of frame