From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: lguest <lguest@ozlabs.org>,
lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] Fix lguest page-pinning logic ("lguest: bad stack page 0xc057a000")
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 06:35:08 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1188419708.5531.137.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
If the stack pointer is 0xc057a000, then the first stack page is at
0xc0579000 (the stack pointer is decremented before use). Not
calculating this correctly caused guests with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y
to be killed with a "bad stack page" message: the initial kernel stack
was just proceeding the .smp_locks section which
CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC marks read-only when freeing.
Thanks to Frederik Deweerdt for the bug report!
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
---
drivers/lguest/interrupts_and_traps.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
===================================================================
--- a/drivers/lguest/interrupts_and_traps.c
+++ b/drivers/lguest/interrupts_and_traps.c
@@ -270,8 +270,11 @@ void pin_stack_pages(struct lguest *lg)
/* Depending on the CONFIG_4KSTACKS option, the Guest can have one or
* two pages of stack space. */
for (i = 0; i < lg->stack_pages; i++)
- /* The stack grows *upwards*, hence the subtraction */
- pin_page(lg, lg->esp1 - i * PAGE_SIZE);
+ /* The stack grows *upwards*, so the address we're given is the
+ * start of the page after the kernel stack. Subtract one to
+ * get back onto the first stack page, and keep subtracting to
+ * get to the rest of the stack pages. */
+ pin_page(lg, lg->esp1 - 1 - i * PAGE_SIZE);
}
/* Direct traps also mean that we need to know whenever the Guest wants to use
next reply other threads:[~2007-08-29 20:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-29 20:35 Rusty Russell [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-08-22 9:06 2.6.23-rc3-mm1 Andrew Morton
2007-08-22 20:25 ` [-mm patch] enforce noreplace-smp in alternative_instructions() Frederik Deweerdt
2007-08-23 21:50 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-24 6:04 ` Frederik Deweerdt
2007-08-24 6:46 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-08-24 8:22 ` Frederik Deweerdt
2007-08-25 12:07 ` Rusty Russell
2007-08-25 12:23 ` Frederik Deweerdt
2007-08-25 21:14 ` Frederik Deweerdt
2007-08-27 16:09 ` [PATCH] Fix lguest page-pinning logic ("lguest: bad stack page 0xc057a000") Rusty Russell
2007-08-30 16:38 ` Frederik Deweerdt
2007-08-30 22:12 ` Rusty Russell
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