[PATCH 2/2] riscv: misaligned: fix sleeping function called during misaligned access handling

Clément Léger cleger at rivosinc.com
Fri Apr 11 00:36:47 PDT 2025


Hi Nylon,

I already have a pending fix for that bug which is to reenable
interrupts while handling misaligned faults. Please see:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20250317170625.1142870-12-cleger@rivosinc.com/

Thanks,

Clément

On 11/04/2025 09:38, Nylon Chen wrote:
> Use copy_from_user_nofault() and copy_to_user_nofault() instead of
> copy_from/to_user functions in the misaligned access trap handlers.
> 
> The following bug report was found when executing misaligned memory
> accesses:
> 
> BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at ./include/linux/uaccess.h:162
> in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 115, name: two
> preempt_count: 0, expected: 0
> CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 115 Comm: two Not tainted 6.14.0-rc5 #24
> Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
> Call Trace:
>  [<ffffffff800160ea>] dump_backtrace+0x1c/0x24
>  [<ffffffff80002304>] show_stack+0x28/0x34
>  [<ffffffff80010fae>] dump_stack_lvl+0x4a/0x68
>  [<ffffffff80010fe0>] dump_stack+0x14/0x1c
>  [<ffffffff8004e44e>] __might_resched+0xfa/0x104
>  [<ffffffff8004e496>] __might_sleep+0x3e/0x62
>  [<ffffffff801963c4>] __might_fault+0x1c/0x24
>  [<ffffffff80425352>] _copy_from_user+0x28/0xaa
>  [<ffffffff8000296c>] handle_misaligned_store+0x204/0x254
>  [<ffffffff809eae82>] do_trap_store_misaligned+0x24/0xee
>  [<ffffffff809f4f1a>] handle_exception+0x146/0x152
> 
> Fixes: b686ecdeacf6 ("riscv: misaligned: Restrict user access to kernel memory")
> Fixes: 441381506ba7 ("riscv: misaligned: remove CONFIG_RISCV_M_MODE specific code")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zong Li <zong.li at sifive.com>
> Signed-off-by: Nylon Chen <nylon.chen at sifive.com>
> ---
>  arch/riscv/kernel/traps_misaligned.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/traps_misaligned.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/traps_misaligned.c
> index d7275dfb6b7e..563f73f88fa8 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/traps_misaligned.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/traps_misaligned.c
> @@ -455,7 +455,7 @@ static int handle_scalar_misaligned_load(struct pt_regs *regs)
>  
>  	val.data_u64 = 0;
>  	if (user_mode(regs)) {
> -		if (copy_from_user(&val, (u8 __user *)addr, len))
> +		if (copy_from_user_nofault(&val, (u8 __user *)addr, len))
>  			return -1;
>  	} else {
>  		memcpy(&val, (u8 *)addr, len);
> @@ -556,7 +556,7 @@ static int handle_scalar_misaligned_store(struct pt_regs *regs)
>  		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
>  
>  	if (user_mode(regs)) {
> -		if (copy_to_user((u8 __user *)addr, &val, len))
> +		if (copy_to_user_nofault((u8 __user *)addr, &val, len))
>  			return -1;
>  	} else {
>  		memcpy((u8 *)addr, &val, len);




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