When running the LTP testsuite one may hit this kernel BUG() with the
write06 testcase:
kernel BUG at mm/filemap.c:2023!
CPU: 1 PID: 8614 Comm: writev01 Not tainted 3.10.0-rc7-64bit-c3000+ #6
IASQ: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 IAOQ: 00000000401e6e84 00000000401e6e88
IIR: 03ffe01f ISR: 0000000010340000 IOR: 000001fbe0380820
CPU: 1 CR30: 00000000bef80000 CR31: ffffffffffffffff
ORIG_R28: 00000000bdc192c0
IAOQ[0]: iov_iter_advance+0x3c/0xc0
IAOQ[1]: iov_iter_advance+0x40/0xc0
RP(r2): generic_file_buffered_write+0x204/0x3f0
Backtrace:
[<00000000401e764c>] generic_file_buffered_write+0x204/0x3f0
[<00000000401eab24>] __generic_file_aio_write+0x244/0x448
[<00000000401eadc0>] generic_file_aio_write+0x98/0x150
[<000000004024f460>] do_sync_readv_writev+0xc0/0x130
[<000000004025037c>] compat_do_readv_writev+0x12c/0x340
[<00000000402505f8>] compat_writev+0x68/0xa0
[<0000000040251d88>] compat_SyS_writev+0x98/0xf8
Reason for this crash is a gcc miscompilation in the fault handlers of
pa_memcpy() which return the fault address instead of the copied bytes.
Since this seems to be a generic problem with gcc-4.7.x (and below), it's
better to simplify the fault handlers in pa_memcpy to avoid this problem.
Here is a simple reproducer for the problem:
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int fd, nbytes;
struct iovec wr_iovec[] = {
{ "TEST STRING ",32},
{ (char*)0x40005000,32} }; // random memory.
fd = open(DATA_FILE, O_RDWR | O_CREAT, 0666);
nbytes = writev(fd, wr_iovec, 2);
printf("return value = %d, errno %d (%s)\n",
nbytes, errno, strerror(errno));
return 0;
}
In addition, John David Anglin wrote:
There is no gcc PR as pa_memcpy is not legitimate C code. There is an
implicit assumption that certain variables will contain correct values
when an exception occurs and the code randomly jumps to one of the
exception blocks. There is no guarantee of this. If a PR was filed, it
would likely be marked as invalid.
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: John David Anglin <dave.anglin@bell.net>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.8+
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
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