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From: Dan Aloni <dan@kernelim.com>
To: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: "linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: mm/sched/net: BUG when running simple code
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 06:27:54 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140613032754.GA20729@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <539A6850.4090408@oracle.com>

On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 10:56:16PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Okay, I'm really lost. I got the following when fuzzing, and can't really explain what's
> going on. It seems that we get a "unable to handle kernel paging request" when running
> rather simple code, and I can't figure out how it would cause it.
[..]
> Which agrees with the trace I got:
> 
> [  516.309720] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffa0f12560
> [  516.309720] IP: netlink_getsockopt (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2271)
[..]
> [  516.309720] RIP netlink_getsockopt (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2271)
> [  516.309720]  RSP <ffff8803fc85fed8>
> [  516.309720] CR2: ffffffffa0f12560
> 
> They only theory I had so far is that netlink is a module, and has gone away while the code
> was executing, but netlink isn't a module on my kernel.

The RIP - 0xffffffffa0f12560 is in the range (from Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt):

    ffffffffa0000000 - ffffffffff5fffff (=1525 MB) module mapping space

So seems it was in a module.

-- 
Dan Aloni

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-13  3:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-13  2:56 mm/sched/net: BUG when running simple code Sasha Levin
2014-06-13  3:27 ` Dan Aloni [this message]
2014-06-13  4:01   ` Sasha Levin
2014-06-13  4:13     ` Dave Jones
2014-06-13 15:13       ` Sasha Levin
2014-06-17  3:17       ` Sasha Levin
2014-06-17  4:30         ` Dan Aloni
2014-06-13  4:55     ` Dan Aloni
2014-06-13  5:26       ` Dan Aloni
2014-06-13  5:31       ` Dan Aloni
2014-07-08 14:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-07-08 15:25   ` Sasha Levin

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