Re: Fwd: [Bug 150021] New: kernel panic: "kernel tried to execute NX-protected page" when resuming from hibernate to disk

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Tue Jul 26 2016 - 16:10:44 EST


On Tuesday, July 26, 2016 09:39:05 AM Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 01:32:28PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The following commit:
> >
> > commit 13523309495cdbd57a0d344c0d5d574987af007f
> > Author: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Thu Jan 21 16:49:21 2016 -0600
> >
> > x86/asm/acpi: Create a stack frame in do_suspend_lowlevel()
> >
> > do_suspend_lowlevel() is a callable non-leaf function which doesn't
> > honor CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER, which can result in bad stack traces.
> >
> > Create a stack frame for it when CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is enabled.
> >
> > is reported to cause a resume-from-hibernation regression due to an attempt
> > to execute an NX page (we've seen quite a bit of that recently).
> >
> > I'm asking the reporter to try 4.7, but if the problem is still there, we'll
> > need to revert the above I'm afraid.

So the bug is still there in 4.7 and it goes away after reverting the above
commit. I guess I'll send a revert then.

> Hi Rafael,
>
> Is the oops output available somewhere?

Not yet, but I've just ask the reporter to attach it to the $subject BZ entry.

In any case, this is nasty stuff and the reason why we made that change was
relatively weak IMO.

Thanks,
Rafael