qemu-arm64: handle_futex_death - kernel/futex/core.c:661 - Unable to handle kernel unknown 43 at virtual address

Naresh Kamboju naresh.kamboju at linaro.org
Tue Oct 31 00:43:10 PDT 2023


Hi Ard,

Your V2 patch works perfectly.
Thanks for providing a fix patch.

- Naresh

On Mon, 30 Oct 2023 at 17:20, Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju at linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 30 Oct 2023 at 13:45, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 30 Oct 2023 at 09:07, Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju at linaro.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, 28 Oct 2023 at 13:12, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, 27 Oct 2023 at 12:57, Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju at linaro.org> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Thu, 26 Oct 2023 at 21:09, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Thu, 26 Oct 2023 at 17:30, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com> wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 08:11:26PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> > > > > > > > Following kernel crash noticed on qemu-arm64 while running LTP syscalls
> > > > > > > > set_robust_list test case running Linux next 6.6.0-rc7-next-20231026 ...
> > > > > > > It looks like this is fallout from the LPA2 enablement.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > According to the latest ARM ARM (ARM DDI 0487J.a), page D19-6475, that "unknown
> > > > > > > 43" (0x2b / 0b101011) is the DFSC for a level -1 translation fault:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >         0b101011 When FEAT_LPA2 is implemented:
> > > > > > >                  Translation fault, level -1.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > It's triggered here by an LDTR in a get_user() on a bogus userspace address.
> > > > > > > The exception is expected, and it's supposed to be handled via the exception
> > > > > > > fixups, but the LPA2 patches didn't update the fault_info table entries for all
> > > > > > > the level -1 faults, and so those all get handled by do_bad() and don't call
> > > > > > > fixup_exception(), causing them to be fatal.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > It should be relatively simple to update the fault_info table for the level -1
> > > > > > > faults, but given the other issues we're seeing I think it's probably worth
> > > > > > > dropping the LPA2 patches for the moment.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks for the analysis Mark.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I agree that this should not be difficult to fix, but given the other
> > > > > > CI problems and identified loose ends, I am not going to object to
> > > > > > dropping this partially or entirely at this point. I'm sure everybody
> > > > > > will be thrilled to go over those 60 patches again after I rebase them
> > > > > > onto v6.7-rc1 :-)
> > > > >
> > > > > I am happy to test any proposed fix patch.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks Naresh. Patch attached.
> > >
> > > This patch did not solve the reported problem.
> > > Test log links,
> > >  - https://tuxapi.tuxsuite.com/v1/groups/linaro/projects/naresh/tests/2XTP1lXcUUscT357YaAm2G1AhpS
> > >
> >
> > Oops, sorry about that.
> >
> > Fixed patch attched.
>
> Tested-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft at linaro.org>
>
> - Naresh
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