Re: ppc elf_map breakage with MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE

[Anshuman Khandual]

On 01/23/2018 09:36 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue 23-01-18 21:28:28, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>> On 01/23/2018 06:15 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
>>> On Tue 23-01-18 16:55:18, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>>>> On 01/17/2018 01:37 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
>>>>> On Thu 11-01-18 15:38:37, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>>>>>> On 01/09/2018 09:43 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>> Did you manage to catch _who_ is requesting that anonymous mapping? Do
>>>>>>> you need a help with the debugging patch?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Not yet, will get back on this.
>>>>>
>>>>> ping?
>>>>
>>>> Hey Michal,
>>>>
>>>> Missed this thread, my apologies. This problem is happening only with
>>>> certain binaries like 'sed', 'tmux', 'hostname', 'pkg-config' etc. As
>>>> you had mentioned before the map request collision is happening on
>>>> [10030000, 10040000] and [10030000, 10040000] ranges only which is
>>>> just a single PAGE_SIZE. You asked previously that who might have
>>>> requested the anon mapping which is already present in there ? Would
>>>> not that be the same process itself ? I am bit confused.
>>>
>>> We are early in the ELF loading. If we are mapping over an existing
>>> mapping then we are effectivelly corrupting it. In other words exactly
>>> what this patch tries to prevent. I fail to see what would be a relevant
>>> anon mapping this early and why it would be colliding with elf
>>> segements.
>>>
>>>> Would it be
>>>> helpful to trap all the mmap() requests from any of the binaries
>>>> and see where we might have created that anon mapping ?
>>>
>>> Yeah, that is exactly what I was suggesting. Sorry for not being clear
>>> about that.
>>>
>>
>> Tried to instrument just for the 'sed' binary and dont see any where
>> it actually requests the anon VMA which got hit when loading the ELF
>> section which is strange. All these requested flags here already has
>> MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE (0x100000). Wondering from where the anon VMA
>> actually came from.
> 
> Could you try to dump backtrace?

This is when it fails inside elf_map() function due to collision with
existing anon VMA mapping.

[c000201c9ad07880] [c000000000b0b4c0] dump_stack+0xb0/0xf0 (unreliable)
[c000201c9ad078c0] [c0000000003c4550] elf_map+0x2d0/0x310
[c000201c9ad07b60] [c0000000003c6258] load_elf_binary+0x6f8/0x158c
[c000201c9ad07c80] [c000000000352900] search_binary_handler+0xd0/0x270
[c000201c9ad07d10] [c000000000354838] do_execveat_common.isra.31+0x658/0x890
[c000201c9ad07df0] [c000000000354e80] SyS_execve+0x40/0x50
[c000201c9ad07e30] [c00000000000b220] system_call+0x58/0x6c