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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@gmail.com>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	jesse.brandeburg@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, kkeil@suse.de, agospoda@redhat.com,
	david.graham@intel.com, bruce.w.allan@intel.com,
	john.ronciak@intel.com, chris.jones@canonical.com,
	tim.gardner@canonical.com, airlied@gmail.com,
	Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 02/12] On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, David Miller wrote:
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 08:05:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48E8D7A5.7060508@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0810050959420.3398@apollo>

Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Oct 2008, Jesse Brandeburg wrote:
>>> Exactly. The access to a ro region results in a fault. I have nowhere
>>> seen that trigger, but I can reproduce the trylock() WARN_ON, which
>>> confirms that there is concurrent access to the NVRAM registers. The
>>> backtrace pattern is similar to the one you have seen.
>> are you still getting WARN_ON *with* all the mutex based fixes already applied?
> 
> The WARN_ON triggers with current mainline. Is there any fixlet in
> Linus tree missing ?
> 
>> with the mutex patches in place (without protection patch) we are
>> still reproducing the issue, until we apply the set_memory_ro patch.
> 
> That does not make sense to me. If the memory_ro patch is providing
> _real_ protection then you _must_ run into an access violation. If not,
> then the patch just papers over the real problem in some mysterious
> way.
> 

not if the bad code is doing copy_to_user .... (or similar)

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-05 15:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20080930030825.22950.18891.stgit@jbrandeb-bw.jf.intel.com>
     [not found] ` <200810021523.45884.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
     [not found]   ` <20081003.134634.240211201.davem@davemloft.net>
     [not found]     ` <200810031429.22598.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
     [not found]       ` <alpine.LNX.1.10.0810032338140.26779@jikos.suse.cz>
     [not found]         ` <4807377b0810031628x43f79eferdbb9c9c264a5816e@mail.gmail.com>
2008-10-03 23:30           ` [RFC PATCH 02/12] On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, David Miller wrote: Jesse Brandeburg
     [not found]           ` <alpine.LNX.1.10.0810041219130.26779@jikos.suse.cz>
     [not found]             ` <alpine.LFD.2.00.0810041236250.4404@apollo>
2008-10-05  1:24               ` Jesse Brandeburg
2008-10-05  8:51                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-10-05 15:05                   ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2008-10-05 15:55                     ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-10-05 16:02                       ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-10-05 16:16                         ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-10-05 17:01                           ` Arjan van de Ven

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