Hi Herert
Thanks for yout reply .
Will Deacon [will.deacon@arm.com] has give
A patch to me for test .
You can see it here :
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/will/linux.git/commit/?h=misc-patches
Thanks
-----Original Message-----
From: Herbert Poetzl [mailto:herbert@13thfloor.at]
Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2013 8:40 AM
To: Wang, Yalin
Cc: 'vserver@list.linux-vserver.org'
Subject: Re: [vserver] A bug about system call on ARM
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 01:28:42PM +0800, Wang, Yalin wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am a new comer to this mailing list , I am happy to join this
> community .
> I have a bug reported from our android phones which is caused by the
> system call .
> It seems like kernel bugs from my view .
Hmm, how is that Linux-VServer related?
What kernel and Linux-VServer patch do you use?
Thanks,
Herbert
> Crash in file arch\arm\kernel\ entry-common.S
> #if defined(CONFIG_OABI_COMPAT)
> /*
> * If we have CONFIG_OABI_COMPAT then we need to look at the swi
> * value to determine if it is an EABI or an old ABI call.
> */
> #ifdef CONFIG_ARM_THUMB
> tst r8, #PSR_T_BIT
> movne r10, #0 @ no thumb OABI emulation
> ldreq r10, [lr, #-4] @ get SWI instruction // crash at this instruction, when get SWI instruction
> #else
> ldr r10, [lr, #-4] @ get SWI instruction
> A710( and ip, r10, #0x0f000000 @ check for SWI )
> A710( teq ip, #0x0f000000 )
> A710( bne .Larm710bug )
> #endif
> #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_ENDIAN_BE8
> rev r10, r10 @ little endian instruction
> #endif
> Then reason why it will crash when get SWI instruction is maybe This
> page is clear to aged by kernel, But this MMU fault happpened in
> kernel, So the kernel do_page_fault function will not clear this page
> to young, So that will crash .
> It should poll this page to make it present or the fault should be
> handled by fixup section , Anyway, this place should not crash by kernel .
> The kernel version I used is 3.4.0
> I have add the kernel log and the call stack recoverd by trace32 tools
> Pls have a look at it .
> Thanks .
> Yalin.Wang
> Software Engineer
> OS Kernel&Graphics
> Sony Mobile Communications
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> [cid:image001.jpg@01CE5C5F.6BD2AAE0]
Content-Description: stack.txt
> crash_notes_save_this_cpu(type = CRASH_NOTE_CRASHING, cpu = 1)
> update_crash_notes(?, ?, ?)
> notifier_call_chain(?, val = 0, v = 0xC0ECBE9C, nr_to_call = 5, nr_calls = 0x0)
> __atomic_notifier_call_chain(nh = 0xC0ECC29C, val = 0, v = 0xC0ECBE9C, nr_to_call = -1, nr_calls = 0x0)
> atomic_notifier_call_chain(?, ?, ?)
> panic(fmt = 0xC098BC02)
> die(?, regs = 0xE0601F68, err = 23)
> __do_kernel_fault.part.8(mm = 0xC73E7DC0, addr = 1075872796, fsr = 23, regs = 0xE0601F68)
> do_page_fault(addr = 3342761408, fsr = 23, regs = 0x4020841C)
> do_DataAbort(addr = 1075872796, fsr = 23, regs = 0xE0601F68)
> __dabt_svc(asm)
> exception
> vector_swi(asm)
> ret_fast_syscall(asm)
> exception
> NUR:0xFFFF:0x40208420(asm)
> end of frame
Received on Sat Jun 1 11:10:07 2013