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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>,
	Andreas Brief <Andreas.Brief@rohde-schwarz.com>,
	Martin Runge <Martin.Runge@rohde-schwarz.com>
Subject: Re: [x86, vdso] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at d34bd000
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 10:48:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <531DFAF0.9070806@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrVKfBpVHZcyccWRYM4rdOAETSQsxjiQuxn+0AeX78XiEw@mail.gmail.com>

On 03/10/2014 10:46 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>>
>> Yes, we'd have to switch the vdso to using syscall access.  Doing that
>> from inside a system call is... "interesting".
> 
> It's a little less interesting if it just involves changing a vma.
> It's still tricky, though -- would each struct mm have its own struct
> file for the vvar page?  Can this be done with some
> vm_operations_struct magic?  There are possible races, too, though --
> another thread could access the thing concurrently with a syscall.
> 

Hint: where is your RIP?  Where is the RIP of other processes?

	-hpa


  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-10 17:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-07  1:38 [x86, vdso] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at d34bd000 Fengguang Wu
2014-03-07  1:48 ` [x86, vdso] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 91c24000 Fengguang Wu
2014-03-07  7:21 ` [x86, vdso] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at d34bd000 Stefani Seibold
2014-03-07 18:56   ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-03-07 21:53     ` Stefani Seibold
2014-03-07 23:07       ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-03-09  8:47         ` Stefani Seibold
2014-03-10  0:16           ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-03-10  3:18             ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-03-10  4:46               ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-03-10 14:59                 ` H. Peter Anvin
     [not found]                   ` <CA+55aFwKpBybz9S9A=+tcr1BbdzAbagL30Br2cak2GrdPH=hhA@mail.gmail.com>
2014-03-10 17:12                     ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-03-10 17:24                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-03-10 17:31                         ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-03-10 17:38                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-03-10 17:46                             ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-03-10 17:48                               ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2014-03-10 17:52                                 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-03-10 17:58                                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-03-10 18:10                                     ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-03-10 17:49                               ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-03-10 20:03                       ` Stefani Seibold
2014-03-10 20:06                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-03-10 20:19                           ` Linus Torvalds
2014-03-10 21:20                             ` Linus Torvalds
2014-03-10 21:43                               ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-03-10 21:51                               ` Dave Jones
2014-03-10 22:59                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-03-10 23:32                                   ` [PATCH] x86: Remove CONFIG_X86_OOSTORE Dave Jones
2014-03-11 10:11                               ` [x86, vdso] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at d34bd000 Ingo Molnar
2014-03-10 21:25                             ` stefani
2014-03-10 21:39                               ` Linus Torvalds
2014-03-10 21:53                                 ` stefani
2014-03-10 22:03                                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-03-10 22:36                                     ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-03-10 23:02                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-03-10 21:29                           ` stefani
2014-03-11  6:02                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-03-07  8:47 ` Stefani Seibold
2014-03-07  9:15   ` Fengguang Wu
2014-03-07  9:57     ` Stefani Seibold
2014-03-07 10:21       ` Fengguang Wu
2014-03-07 16:06         ` Stefani Seibold
2014-03-07 23:12           ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-03-07 10:36       ` Fengguang Wu
2014-03-07 23:44       ` Fengguang Wu
2014-03-09  8:08         ` Stefani Seibold
2014-03-10  0:00           ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-03-10 19:41             ` Greg Kroah-Hartman

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