Re: i386: selftests: vm: compaction_test: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000

From: Peter Xu
Date: Sun Apr 12 2020 - 17:42:03 EST


Hi, Naresh,

On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:24:57PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> On Linux mainline kernel 5.6.0 running kselftest vm compaction_test on i386
> kernel running on x86_64 devices we have noticed this Kernel BUG followed by
> Kernel panic.
>
> BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000009
>
> Steps to reproduce:
> --------------------------
> # cd /opt/kselftests/default-in-kernel/vm/
> # ./compaction_test
>
> [ 45.955706] kauditd_printk_skb: 15 callbacks suppressed
> [ 45.955707] audit: type=1334 audit(1586671685.974:25): prog-id=13 op=UNLOAD
> [ 45.968082] audit: type=1334 audit(1586671685.974:26): prog-id=12 op=UNLOAD
> [ 46.008163] get_swap_device: Bad swap file entry 7007504a
> [ 46.013647] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000

I suspect this is the same issue with:

20200410002518.GG8179@shao2-debian/">https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200410002518.GG8179@shao2-debian/

And since this one is very easy to reproduce, I finally noticed that
we have wrongly enabled uffd-wp on x86_32, which is definely not going
to work... Because we'll use bit 2 of swap entry assuming that's the
uffd-wp bit, while that's part of swp offset on 32bit systems.

Naresh, could you try whether below change fixes the issue for you?

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 8d078642b4be..7ac524d1316e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ config X86
select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
select HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
select HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD if X86_64
- select HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP if USERFAULTFD
+ select HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_WP if X86_64 && USERFAULTFD
select HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK if X86_64
select HAVE_ARCH_WITHIN_STACK_FRAMES
select HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS

Thanks,

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Peter Xu