From 08b74a000942a380fe028845f92cd3a0dee827d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Mon, 6 May 2024 03:02:38 +0200 Subject: Adding debian version 4.19.249-2. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- ...Initialize-split-page-table-locks-for-vec.patch | 87 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 87 insertions(+) create mode 100644 debian/patches-rt/0310-Revert-ARM-Initialize-split-page-table-locks-for-vec.patch (limited to 'debian/patches-rt/0310-Revert-ARM-Initialize-split-page-table-locks-for-vec.patch') diff --git a/debian/patches-rt/0310-Revert-ARM-Initialize-split-page-table-locks-for-vec.patch b/debian/patches-rt/0310-Revert-ARM-Initialize-split-page-table-locks-for-vec.patch new file mode 100644 index 000000000..92464be91 --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/patches-rt/0310-Revert-ARM-Initialize-split-page-table-locks-for-vec.patch @@ -0,0 +1,87 @@ +From 24329bb57c5b6fae2c3360adcb2c69bbcd4314f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 +From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior +Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 13:04:15 +0200 +Subject: [PATCH 310/347] Revert "ARM: Initialize split page table locks for + vector page" +Origin: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/4.19/older/patches-4.19.246-rt110.tar.xz + +[ Upstream commit 247074c44d8c3e619dfde6404a52295d8d671d38 ] + +I'm dropping this patch, with its original description: + +|ARM: Initialize split page table locks for vector page +| +|Without this patch, ARM can not use SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS if +|PREEMPT_RT_FULL=y because vectors_user_mapping() creates a +|VM_ALWAYSDUMP mapping of the vector page (address 0xffff0000), but no +|ptl->lock has been allocated for the page. An attempt to coredump +|that page will result in a kernel NULL pointer dereference when +|follow_page() attempts to lock the page. +| +|The call tree to the NULL pointer dereference is: +| +| do_notify_resume() +| get_signal_to_deliver() +| do_coredump() +| elf_core_dump() +| get_dump_page() +| __get_user_pages() +| follow_page() +| pte_offset_map_lock() <----- a #define +| ... +| rt_spin_lock() +| +|The underlying problem is exposed by mm-shrink-the-page-frame-to-rt-size.patch. + +The patch named mm-shrink-the-page-frame-to-rt-size.patch was dropped +from the RT queue once the SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS feature (in a slightly +different shape) went upstream (somewhere between v3.12 and v3.14). + +I can see that the patch still allocates a lock which wasn't there +before. However I can't trigger a kernel oops like described in the +patch by triggering a coredump. + +Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior +Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) +--- + arch/arm/kernel/process.c | 24 ------------------------ + 1 file changed, 24 deletions(-) + +diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/process.c b/arch/arm/kernel/process.c +index 8d3c7ce34c24..82ab015bf42b 100644 +--- a/arch/arm/kernel/process.c ++++ b/arch/arm/kernel/process.c +@@ -324,30 +324,6 @@ unsigned long arch_randomize_brk(struct mm_struct *mm) + } + + #ifdef CONFIG_MMU +-/* +- * CONFIG_SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS results in a page->ptl lock. If the lock is not +- * initialized by pgtable_page_ctor() then a coredump of the vector page will +- * fail. +- */ +-static int __init vectors_user_mapping_init_page(void) +-{ +- struct page *page; +- unsigned long addr = 0xffff0000; +- pgd_t *pgd; +- pud_t *pud; +- pmd_t *pmd; +- +- pgd = pgd_offset_k(addr); +- pud = pud_offset(pgd, addr); +- pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr); +- page = pmd_page(*(pmd)); +- +- pgtable_page_ctor(page); +- +- return 0; +-} +-late_initcall(vectors_user_mapping_init_page); +- + #ifdef CONFIG_KUSER_HELPERS + /* + * The vectors page is always readable from user space for the +-- +2.36.1 + -- cgit v1.2.3