On 07/31/2012 06:42 AM, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> This patch moves actual ptes filling for non-linear file mappings
> into special vma operation: ->remap_pages().
>
> File system must implement this method to get non-linear mappings support,
> if it uses filemap_fault() then generic_file_remap_pages() can be used.
>
> Now device drivers can implement this method and obtain nonlinear vma support.
>
> Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
I was fuzzing with trinity inside a KVM tools guest, and hit the following NULL deref:
[ 1202.209854] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000040
[ 1202.215344] IP: [<ffffffff812290cf>] sys_remap_file_pages+0xcf/0x380
[ 1202.215904] PGD 24ccc067 PUD 2f693067 PMD 0
[ 1202.215904] Oops: 0000 [#2] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
[ 1202.215904] CPU 3
[ 1202.224995] Pid: 17953, comm: trinity-child3 Tainted: G D W 3.6.0-next-20121009-sasha-00001-ge404bae #43
[ 1202.224995] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff812290cf>] [<ffffffff812290cf>] sys_remap_file_pages+0xcf/0x380
[ 1202.224995] RSP: 0018:ffff880025819f18 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 1202.224995] RAX: 00000000050444f9 RBX: 0000000080100000 RCX: 0000000000000001
[ 1202.224995] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000080100000 RDI: ffff8800255f1000
[ 1202.279533] RBP: ffff880025819f78 R08: ffff88000c9ea580 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 1202.279533] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8800255f10a8
[ 1202.279533] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff8800255f1000 R15: 0000000080700000
[ 1202.279533] FS: 00007fa063d0e700(0000) GS:ffff880067600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 1202.279533] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 1202.279533] CR2: 0000000000000040 CR3: 000000002cc81000 CR4: 00000000000406e0
[ 1202.279533] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[ 1202.279533] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[ 1202.279533] Process trinity-child3 (pid: 17953, threadinfo ffff880025818000, task ffff88003061b000)
[ 1202.279533] Stack:
[ 1202.279533] ffff880025819f48 ffffffff8107dc10 0000000080100000 0000000000000000
[ 1202.279533] 0000000000600000 000000000aefbf86 00000000000000d8 0000000080100000
[ 1202.279533] 0000000000000003 00000000000000d8 0000000000600000 00000000000000d8
[ 1202.279533] Call Trace:
[ 1202.279533] [<ffffffff8107dc10>] ? syscall_trace_enter+0x20/0x2e0
[ 1202.279533] [<ffffffff83a64738>] tracesys+0xe1/0xe6
[ 1202.279533] Code: 02 00 00 48 8b 40 30 a8 08 0f 84 6d 02 00 00 49 83 b8 a0 00 00 00 00 74 0b a9 00 00 80 00 0f 84 58 02 00 00
49 8b 90 88 00 00 00 <48> 83 7a 40 00 0f 84 46 02 00 00 49 8b 50 08 48 39 d3 0f 82 39
[ 1202.279533] RIP [<ffffffff812290cf>] sys_remap_file_pages+0xcf/0x380
[ 1202.279533] RSP <ffff880025819f18>
[ 1202.279533] CR2: 0000000000000040
[ 1202.401144] ---[ end trace fe8a5604834bab83 ]---
It would seem that this patch adds the following check into sys_remap_file_pages():
if (!vma->vm_ops->remap_pages)
goto out;
But vma->vm_ops itself is NULL.
Thanks,
Sasha
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