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* [PATCH] x86: fpu xstate fix memory poison overwritten
@ 2010-08-12 10:45 Xiaotian Feng
  2010-08-12 11:30 ` Brian Gerst
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Xiaotian Feng @ 2010-08-12 10:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: x86
  Cc: linux-kernel, Xiaotian Feng, Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar,
	H. Peter Anvin, Brian Gerst, Avi Kivity, Peter Zijlstra

fpu.state is allocated from task_xstate_cachep, the size of
task_xstate_cachep is xstate_size. But fpu.state is an union
struct, which size is bigger than xstate_size if cpu_has_xsave,
so if we want to visit fpu.state->xsave, the memory we allocated
for fpu.state is not enough.

This caused many poison/redzone overwritten alerts on task_xstate while using kvm.

[ 1899.399373] =============================================================================
[ 1899.399377] BUG task_xstate: Poison overwritten
[ 1899.399378] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ 1899.399379]
[ 1899.399382] INFO: 0xffff88020aca2100-0xffff88020aca217f. First byte 0x0 instead of 0x6b
[ 1899.399385] INFO: Slab 0xffffea000725c300 objects=23 used=12 fp=0xffff88020aca2100 flags=0x200000000040c1
[ 1899.399387] INFO: Object 0xffff88020aca2100 @offset=8448 fp=0xffff88020aca23c0

With this patch applied, the poison overwritten alert disappeared.

Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/process.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
index d401f1d..609bee5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ void free_thread_info(struct thread_info *ti)
 void arch_task_cache_init(void)
 {
         task_xstate_cachep =
-        	kmem_cache_create("task_xstate", xstate_size,
+		kmem_cache_create("task_xstate", sizeof(union thread_xstate),
 				  __alignof__(union thread_xstate),
 				  SLAB_PANIC | SLAB_NOTRACK, NULL);
 }
-- 
1.7.2.1


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2010-08-12 10:45 [PATCH] x86: fpu xstate fix memory poison overwritten Xiaotian Feng
2010-08-12 11:30 ` Brian Gerst
2010-08-13  7:19   ` [PATCH] kvm: fix poison overwritten caused by using wrong xstate size Xiaotian Feng
2010-08-13  7:56     ` Sheng Yang
2010-08-13 21:03     ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-08-15 11:05       ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-16  4:12         ` H. Peter Anvin
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