Re: WARNING: can't dereference registers at ffffc90004dfff60 for ip error_entry+0x7d/0xd0 (Re: [PATCH v2 00/18] Entry stack switching)

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Nov 22 2017 - 10:56:26 EST



* Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > .Lerror_entry_from_usermode_after_swapgs:
> > /* Put us onto the real thread stack. */
> > - leaq 8(%rsp), %rdi /* pt_regs pointer */
> > - movq (%rsp), %r12
> > + popq %r12 /* function return address */
> > + leaq (%rsp), %rdi /* pt_regs pointer */
> > call sync_regs
> > movq %rax, %rsp /* switch stack */
> > ENCODE_FRAME_POINTER
>
> Ah, I see -- SAVE_C_REGS contains an UNWIND_HINT_REGS hint. I had
> thought I needed to fix it differently.
>
> Ingo, if you want to apply this, I attached it. I'll fold it in next
> time I resend the whole series.

Ok.

Also please fold back the minor fixes below - spelling fix plus ugly line breaks
elimination.

Thanks,

Ingo

=======>

arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h | 2 +-
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 7 ++-----
arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c | 6 ++----
arch/x86/kernel/traps.c | 3 +--
4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h
index a40820216f66..8562356213cd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ struct cpu_entry_area
char gdt[PAGE_SIZE];

/*
- * The gdt is just below cpu_tss and thus serves (on x86_64) as a
+ * The GDT is just below cpu_tss and thus serves (on x86_64) as a
* a read-only guard page for the SYSENTER stack at the bottom
* of the TSS region.
*/
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
index 3c0b69a6792b..6b949e6ea0f9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -490,14 +490,12 @@ void load_percpu_segment(int cpu)
load_stack_canary_segment();
}

-static void set_percpu_fixmap_pages(int fixmap_index, void *ptr, int pages,
- pgprot_t prot)
+static void set_percpu_fixmap_pages(int fixmap_index, void *ptr, int pages, pgprot_t prot)
{
int i;

for (i = 0; i < pages; i++)
- __set_fixmap(fixmap_index - i,
- per_cpu_ptr_to_phys(ptr + i*PAGE_SIZE), prot);
+ __set_fixmap(fixmap_index - i, per_cpu_ptr_to_phys(ptr + i*PAGE_SIZE), prot);
}

#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
@@ -546,7 +544,6 @@ static inline void setup_cpu_entry_area(int cpu)
__set_fixmap(get_cpu_entry_area_index(cpu, gdt), get_cpu_gdt_paddr(cpu), gdt_prot);

/*
- *
* The Intel SDM says (Volume 3, 7.2.1):
*
* Avoid placing a page boundary in the part of the TSS that the
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
index def64a91bd68..e9e70bce52ec 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c
@@ -109,10 +109,8 @@ void show_trace_log_lvl(struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs *regs,
* See if the next page up is valid to that we can
* generate some kind of backtrace if this happens.
*/
- stack = (unsigned long *)
- PAGE_ALIGN((unsigned long)stack);
- if (get_stack_info(stack, task, &stack_info,
- &visit_mask))
+ stack = (unsigned long *)PAGE_ALIGN((unsigned long)stack);
+ if (get_stack_info(stack, task, &stack_info, &visit_mask))
break;
}

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
index 03f2bc1cbb30..cbc4272bb9dd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
@@ -359,8 +359,7 @@ dotraplinkage void do_double_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code)
regs->cs == __KERNEL_CS &&
regs->ip == (unsigned long)native_irq_return_iret)
{
- struct pt_regs *normal_regs =
- (struct pt_regs *)this_cpu_read(cpu_tss.x86_tss.sp0) - 1;
+ struct pt_regs *normal_regs = (struct pt_regs *)this_cpu_read(cpu_tss.x86_tss.sp0) - 1;

/* Fake a #GP(0) from userspace. */
memmove(&normal_regs->ip, (void *)regs->sp, 5*8);