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Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] x86: sigcontext fixes, again

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On Wed, 2015-10-28 at 12:53 +0300, Stas Sergeev wrote:
> 28.10.2015 03:04, Toshi Kani пишет:
> > On Wed, 2015-10-28 at 07:37 +0900, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 11:05 PM, Stas Sergeev <stsp@list.ru> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I can't easily post an Oops: under X it doesn't even appear -
> > > > machine freezes immediately, and under non-KMS console it is
> > > > possible to get one, but difficult to screen-shot (using bare
> > > > metal, not VM). Also the Oops was seemingly unrelated.
> > > > And if you run "dosemu -s" under non-KMS console, you'll also
> > > > reproduce this one:
> > > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97321
> > > 
> > > Hmm. Andrew Morton responded to that initially, but then nothing
> > > happened, and now it's been another six months. Andrew?
> > > 
> > > The arch/x86/mm/pat.c error handling does seem to be suspect. This is
> > > all code several years old, so none of this is new, and I think
> > > Suresh
> > > is gone.  Adding a few other people with recent sign-offs to that
> > > file, in the hope that somebody feels like they own it..
> > 
> > In the case of PFNMAP, the range should always be mapped.  So, I wonder
> > why
> > follow_phys() failed with the !pte_present() check.
> > 
> > Stas, do you have a test program that can reproduce 97321?
> Get dosemu2 from here:
> https://github.com/stsp/dosemu2/releases
> or from git, or get dosemu1.
> Then boot your kernel with "nomodeset=1" to get a text console.
> Run
> 
> dosemu -s
> 
> and you'll get the bug.
> You don't even need to mess with FreeDOS or whatever, because
> the problem happens on a very start. And since it is WARN_OCNCE,
> you'll need to reboot to get it again.
> You will probably need to adjust /etc/sudoers because -s means
> that dosemu (a wrapper script for dosemu.bin) will try sudo so
> that dosemu.bin can grab /dev/mem as root.
> 
> If it is too complicated, let me know and I'll try to code up
> a reduced test-case (but can't promise to get to that quickly).
> 
> Thanks to everyone (esp Linus of course :-) who got involved in
> finally supporting dosemu again - it was rather ill for the last
> years.

I compiled "pre4" dosemu2, and ran on 4.3-rc7 kernel booted with the
"nomodeset=1" option.  I may be missing something, but I am not able to
reproduce your problem because dosemu fails with the segfault below on my
system...

Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
#0  0x0000000000421fdb in video_init () at video.c:242
242       if (Video->priv_init)

(gdb) bt
#0  0x0000000000421fdb in video_init () at video.c:242
#1  video_config_init () at video.c:391
#2  0x00000000004b5693 in device_init () at init.c:237
#3  0x000000000041ea3a in main (argc=3, argv=0x7fff70851d28) at emu.c:356

(gdb) p Video
$1 = (struct video_system *) 0x0

Thanks,
-Toshi
 




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  [PATCH v2 2/4] x86/signal/64: Fix SS if needed when delivering a 64-bit signal Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2015-10-26 02:30 +0100
  [PATCH v2 1/4] x86/signal/64: Add a comment about sigcontext->fs and gs Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2015-10-26 02:30 +0100
  [PATCH v2 3/4] x86/signal/64: Re-add support for SS in the 64-bit signal context Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2015-10-26 02:30 +0100
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  Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] x86: sigcontext fixes, again Stas Sergeev <stsp@list.ru> - 2015-10-26 12:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] x86: sigcontext fixes, again Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-10-27 02:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] x86: sigcontext fixes, again Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-10-27 23:40 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] x86: sigcontext fixes, again Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2015-10-28 01:10 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] x86: sigcontext fixes, again Stas Sergeev <stsp@list.ru> - 2015-10-28 11:00 +0100
            Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] x86: sigcontext fixes, again Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2015-10-28 17:40 +0100
              Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] x86: sigcontext fixes, again Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2015-10-28 20:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] x86: sigcontext fixes, again Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2015-10-29 00:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] x86: sigcontext fixes, again Stas Sergeev <stsp@list.ru> - 2015-10-31 13:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] x86: sigcontext fixes, again Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-10-31 01:00 +0100

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