On 01/29/2018 08:17 AM, Anshuman Khandual wrote: > On 01/26/2018 07:34 PM, Michal Hocko wrote: >> On Fri 26-01-18 18:04:27, Anshuman Khandual wrote: >> [...] >>> I tried to instrument mmap_region() for a single instance of 'sed' >>> binary and traced all it's VMA creation. But there is no trace when >>> that 'anon' VMA got created which suddenly shows up during subsequent >>> elf_map() call eventually failing it. Please note that the following >>> VMA was never created through call into map_region() in the process >>> which is strange. >> >> Could you share your debugging patch? > > Please find the debug patch at the end. > >> >>> ================================================================= >>> [ 9.076867] Details for VMA[3] c000001fce42b7c0 >>> [ 9.076925] vma c000001fce42b7c0 start 0000000010030000 end 0000000010040000 >>> next c000001fce42b580 prev c000001fce42b880 mm c000001fce40fa00 >>> prot 8000000000000104 anon_vma (null) vm_ops (null) >>> pgoff 1003 file (null) private_data (null) >>> flags: 0x100073(read|write|mayread|maywrite|mayexec|account) >>> ================================================================= >> >> Isn't this vdso or some other special mapping? It is not really an >> anonymous vma. Please hook into __install_special_mapping > > Yeah, will do. Its not an anon mapping as it does not have a anon_vma > structure ? Okay, this colliding VMA seems to be getting loaded from load_elf_binary() function as well. [ 9.422410] vma c000001fceedbc40 start 0000000010030000 end 0000000010040000 next c000001fceedbe80 prev c000001fceedb700 mm c000001fceea8200 prot 8000000000000104 anon_vma (null) vm_ops (null) pgoff 1003 file (null) private_data (null) flags: 0x100073(read|write|mayread|maywrite|mayexec|account) [ 9.422576] CPU: 46 PID: 7457 Comm: sed Not tainted 4.14.0-dirty #158 [ 9.422610] Call Trace: [ 9.422623] [c000001fdc4f79b0] [c000000000b17ac0] dump_stack+0xb0/0xf0 (unreliable) [ 9.422670] [c000001fdc4f79f0] [c0000000002dafb8] do_brk_flags+0x2d8/0x440 [ 9.422708] [c000001fdc4f7ac0] [c0000000002db3d0] vm_brk_flags+0x80/0x130 [ 9.422747] [c000001fdc4f7b20] [c0000000003d23a4] set_brk+0x80/0xdc [ 9.422785] [c000001fdc4f7b60] [c0000000003d1f24] load_elf_binary+0x1304/0x158c [ 9.422830] [c000001fdc4f7c80] [c00000000035d3e0] search_binary_handler+0xd0/0x270 [ 9.422881] [c000001fdc4f7d10] [c00000000035f338] do_execveat_common.isra.31+0x658/0x890 [ 9.422926] [c000001fdc4f7df0] [c00000000035f980] SyS_execve+0x40/0x50 [ 9.423588] [c000001fdc4f7e30] [c00000000000b220] system_call+0x58/0x6c which is getting hit after adding some more debug. @@ -2949,6 +2997,13 @@ static int do_brk_flags(unsigned long addr, unsigned long request, unsigned long if (flags & VM_LOCKED) mm->locked_vm += (len >> PAGE_SHIFT); vma->vm_flags |= VM_SOFTDIRTY; + + if (!strcmp(current->comm, "sed")) { + if (just_init && (mm_ptr == vma->vm_mm)) { + dump_vma(vma); + dump_stack(); + } + } return 0; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html