[PATCH 1/2] sadump: set info->page_size before cache_init()
Hatayama, Daisuke
d.hatayama at jp.fujitsu.com
Mon May 22 19:52:51 PDT 2017
Currently, makedumpfile results in Segmentation fault on sadump dump
files as follows:
# LANG=C makedumpfile -f --message-level=31 -ld31 -x vmlinux ./sadump_vmcore sadump_vmcore-ld31
sadump: read dump device as single partition
sadump: single partition configuration
page_size : 4096
sadump: timezone information is missing
Segmentation fault
By bisect, I found that this issue is caused by the following commit
that moves invocation of cache_init() in initial() a bit early:
# git bisect bad
8e2834bac4f62da3894da297f083068431be6d80 is the first bad commit
commit 8e2834bac4f62da3894da297f083068431be6d80
Author: Pratyush Anand <panand at redhat.com>
Date: Thu Mar 2 17:37:11 2017 +0900
[PATCH v3 2/7] initial(): call cache_init() a bit early
Call cache_init() before get_kcore_dump_loads(), because latter uses
cache_search().
Call path is like this :
get_kcore_dump_loads() -> process_dump_load() -> vaddr_to_paddr() ->
vtop4_x86_64() -> readmem() -> cache_search()
Signed-off-by: Pratyush Anand <panand at redhat.com>
:100644 100644 6942047199deb09dd1fff2121e264584dbb05587 3b8e9810468de26b0d8b73d456f0bd4f3d3aa2fe M makedumpfile.c
In this timing, on sadump vmcores, info->page_size has not been
initialized yet so has 0. So, malloc() in cache_init() returns a chunk
of 0 size. A bit later, info->page_size is initialized with 4096.
Later processing on cache.c behaves assuming the chunk size is 8 *
4096. This destroys objects allocated after the chunk, resulting in
the above Segmentation fault.
To fix this issue, this commit moves setting info->page_size before
cache_init().
Signed-off-by: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama at jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pratyush Anand <panand at redhat.com>
---
makedumpfile.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/makedumpfile.c b/makedumpfile.c
index 301772a..f300b19 100644
--- a/makedumpfile.c
+++ b/makedumpfile.c
@@ -3878,6 +3878,9 @@ initial(void)
if (!get_value_for_old_linux())
return FALSE;
+ if (info->flag_sadump && !set_page_size(sadump_page_size()))
+ return FALSE;
+
if (!is_xen_memory() && !cache_init())
return FALSE;
@@ -3906,9 +3909,6 @@ initial(void)
return FALSE;
}
- if (!set_page_size(sadump_page_size()))
- return FALSE;
-
if (!sadump_initialize_bitmap_memory())
return FALSE;
--
1.8.3.1
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