Bug report: cpu_relax call from vdso space

Denis Ivanov denis.ivanov at cloudbear.ru
Tue Oct 18 01:37:42 PDT 2022


That sounds reasonable. Thanks.

10/17/2022 8:54 PM, Atish Patra пишет:
> On Sat, Oct 15, 2022 at 12:09 AM Denis Ivanov <denis.ivanov at cloudbear.ru> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Segmentation fault may be raised from cpu_relax()
>> (arch/riscv/include/asm/vdso/processor.h).
>>
>> cpu_relax() may be called from vDSO functions (ex:
>> __vdso_clock_gettime). This means that global 'riscv_isa_ext_keys'
>> variable must not be used in cpu_relax() directly.
>>
>> Use of this array was added to cpu_relax() in
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux.git/commit/?h=fixes&id=8eb060e10185cfc97ef0200d197ec246ba0f9f8c
>>
> Thanks. We saw some other issues with the static key in cpu_relax path as well.
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20220922060958.44203-1-samuel@sholland.org/
>
> We may remove the static key altogether from that path.
>
>> Denis Ivanov
>>
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