Re: [ftrace/fgraph/x86] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 3d00c17d

From: Fengguang Wu
Date: Thu Dec 11 2014 - 16:42:10 EST


Hi Steven,

On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 11:09:13PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 15:17:32 -0800
> Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hi Steven,
> >
> > 0day kernel testing robot got the below dmesg and the first bad commit is
> >
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git master
> > commit 6a06bdbf7f9c669743f58084991ba280f2925586
> > Author: Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > AuthorDate: Mon Nov 24 21:00:34 2014 -0500
> > Commit: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > CommitDate: Mon Dec 1 14:08:58 2014 -0500
> >
> > ftrace/fgraph/x86: Have prepare_ftrace_return() take ip as first parameter
> >
> > The function graph helper function prepare_ftrace_return() which does the work
> > to hijack the parent pointer has that parent pointer as its first parameter.
> > Instead, if we make it the second parameter and have ip as the first parameter
> > (self_addr), then it can use the %rdi from save_mcount_regs that loads it
> > already.
> >
> > Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1411262304010.3961@nanos
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Crap! Yeah, I was wondering how this could be the bug, but then I
> realized this was i386 not x86_64 and I never updated the i386 call to
> prepare_ftrace_return().
>
> Does this patch fix it?

Yes, it fixed the issue.

Tested-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Fengguang

>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
> index b553ed89e5f5..df3e608d409b 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
> @@ -1192,10 +1192,10 @@ ENTRY(ftrace_graph_caller)
> pushl %eax
> pushl %ecx
> pushl %edx
> - movl 0xc(%esp), %edx
> - lea 0x4(%ebp), %eax
> + movl 0xc(%esp), %eax
> + lea 0x4(%ebp), %edx
> movl (%ebp), %ecx
> - subl $MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE, %edx
> + subl $MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE, %eax
> call prepare_ftrace_return
> popl %edx
> popl %ecx
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