Hi all,
I'm facing a strange issue with execve. It fails with -EFAULT intermittently. I found that whenever it failed the stack allocated to the process is in the last page of the CONFIG_TASK_SIZE.
For example, if CONFIG_TASK_SIZE is set to 0x4000_0000, the process would fail in execve if the stack happens to be in the page:
3ffdf000-40000000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack]
I tried changing CONFIG_TASK_SIZE=0x30000000 and the process this time fails at the end 0x30000000 address.
I also found that the execve seem to use the largest stack address (STACK_TOP_MAX, function __bprm_mm_init(), fs/exec.c) while copying argv/envp to the new process space.
I don't know how to debug further. I feel that the user process stack should never be allocated at the CONFIG_TASK_SIZE? Any idea or suggestion on how to debug further, please tell me.
thanks,
rohit
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