Re: pv_ops - 2.6.26 - unable to handle kernel paging request

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Tue Jul 22 2008 - 14:47:20 EST


Christopher S. Aker wrote:
Xen: 3.1.2 (or thereabouts), 64bit
dom0: 2.6.18.8, pae
pv-ops, 2.6.26

What's the .config for this kernel? Do you know what /proc file it's trying to access at the time?

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 69746174

This is address is ascii "tati". Likely to be use-after-free, though it could be the result of a wild write.

The code seems to correspond to the line:

list_add(&page->lru,
&zone->free_area[order].free_list[migratetype]);

so it suggests that either the zone freelist or the page structure is corrupted.

IP: [<c015e221>] move_freepages+0x61/0xc0
*pdpt = 0000000204ed6007
Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
Modules linked in:

Pid: 6859, comm: sh Not tainted (2.6.26-linode13 #1)
EIP: 0061:[<c015e221>] EFLAGS: 00010002 CPU: 2
EIP is at move_freepages+0x61/0xc0
EAX: 69746174 EBX: 25413325 ECX: c158e038 EDX: 732e316d

EBX="%31%"
EDX="m1.~"

EAX, EBX and EDX are all loaded from the page structure, so it's definitely been hit with something. Or perhaps the page pointer was wrong in the first place. If page_order() gets corrupted for the page, then it could cause that loop to march off into nowhere.

Could you try again with DEBUG_PAGEALLOC turned on?

Thanks,
J

ESI: c158e020 EDI: 00000000 EBP: c158ffe0 ESP: ec2cddf8
DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0069
Process sh (pid: 6859, ti=ec2cc000 task=ecd3f400 task.ti=ec2cc000)
Stack: c0630200 00000008 0002c7ff c1588000 c0630200 c158ffe0 c015e2ea 00000001
00000001 00000001 c158f6e0 00000000 c0630200 c015e5d9 c0630a84 00000000
c0630a84 00000000 00000008 00000000 c1587418 c0630200 00000018 0000001f
Call Trace:
[<c015e2ea>] move_freepages_block+0x6a/0x80
[<c015e5d9>] __rmqueue+0x1a9/0x1e0
[<c015e651>] rmqueue_bulk+0x41/0x70
[<c015eae4>] get_page_from_freelist+0x464/0x490
[<c015ebba>] __alloc_pages_internal+0xaa/0x460
[<c015ef8f>] __alloc_pages+0xf/0x20
[<c015f4bf>] __get_free_pages+0xf/0x20
[<c01c015f>] proc_file_read+0x8f/0x2a0
[<c01c00d0>] proc_file_read+0x0/0x2a0
[<c01bb7ca>] proc_reg_read+0x5a/0x90
[<c01801f1>] vfs_read+0xa1/0x160
[<c01bb770>] proc_reg_read+0x0/0x90
[<c0180551>] sys_read+0x41/0x70
[<c0107256>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
=======================
Code: cb 77 6f 8b 44 24 1c 89 de c1 e0 03 89 44 24 04 eb 07 83 c6 20 39 f5 72 59 f6 46 02 04 74 f3 8d 4e 18 8b 56 18 8b 41 04 8b 5e 0c <89> 10 89 42 04 8d 04 9b c7 46 18 00 01 10 00 8d 04 43 8b 14 24
EIP: [<c015e221>] move_freepages+0x61/0xc0 SS:ESP 0069:ec2cddf8
---[ end trace 628f7b31d5a52105 ]---

Kernel binary is located here:

http://www.theshore.net/~caker/kernels/2.6.26-linode13

-Chris

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