[PATCH v13 00/10] powerpc: Switch to CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK

[Michael Ellerman]

Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at c-s.fr> writes:
> Le 19/01/2019 à 11:23, Michael Ellerman a écrit :
>> Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at c-s.fr> writes:
>> 
>>> The purpose of this serie is to activate CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK which
>>> moves the thread_info into task_struct.
>>>
>>> Moving thread_info into task_struct has the following advantages:
>>> - It protects thread_info from corruption in the case of stack
>>> overflows.
>>> - Its address is harder to determine if stack addresses are
>>> leaked, making a number of attacks more difficult.
>>>
>>> Changes since v12:
>>>   - Patch 1: Taken comment from Mike (re-introduced the 'panic' in case memblock allocation fails in setup_64.c
>>>   - Patch 1: Added alloc_stack() function in setup_32.c to also panic in case of allocation failure.
>> 
>> Hi Christophe,
>> 
>> I can't get this series to boot on qemu mac99. I'm getting eg:
>> 
>> [    0.981514] NFS: Registering the id_resolver key type
>> [    0.981752] Key type id_resolver registered
>> [    0.981868] Key type id_legacy registered
>> [    0.995711] Unrecoverable exception 0 at 0 (msr=0)
>> [    0.996091] Oops: Unrecoverable exception, sig: 6 [#1]
>> [    0.996314] BE PAGE_SIZE=4K MMU=Hash PowerMac
>> [    0.996617] Modules linked in:
>> [    0.996869] CPU: 0 PID: 416 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 5.0.0-rc2-gcc-7.3.0-00043-g53f2de798792 #342
>> [    0.997138] NIP:  00000000 LR: 00000000 CTR: 00000000
>> [    0.997309] REGS: ef237f50 TRAP: 0000   Not tainted  (5.0.0-rc2-gcc-7.3.0-00043-g53f2de798792)
>> [    0.997508] MSR:  00000000 <>  CR: 00000000  XER: 00000000
>> [    0.997712]
>> [    0.997712] GPR00: 00000000 ef238000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
>> [    0.997712] GPR08: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 c006477c ef13d8c0
>> [    0.997712] GPR16: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
>> [    0.997712] GPR24: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
>> [    0.998671] NIP [00000000]   (null)
>> [    0.998774] LR [00000000]   (null)
>> [    0.998895] Call Trace:
>> [    0.999030] Instruction dump:
>> [    0.999320] XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
>> [    0.999546] XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX 60000000 XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
>> [    1.000023] ---[ end trace 925ea3419844fe68 ]---
>
> No such issue on my side. Do you have a ramdisk with anythink special or 
> a special config ? I see your kernel is modprobing something, know what 
> it is ?

It's just a debian installer image, nothing special AFAIK.

> Especially, what is the amount of memory in your config ? On my side 
> there is 128M:

I have 1G.

But today I can't reproduce the crash :/

So I guess it must have been something else in my config.

cheers