Paul Mundt wrote: > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 07:13:20PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> On Tuesday 14 July 2009, Michal Simek wrote: >>> when the code tried to read/write from unaligned address (and in cpu >>> is turn on unaligned exception) then is caused unaligned exception >>> and asm code assemble/return value which is on that unaligned >>> address. (Assemble it that read/write every byte separately). That >>> will be harder to prevent all this cases because unaligned exception >>> is in generic code. What do you mean add __range_ok? Range checking >>> is ok. The problem is when in case get_user kernel try to load >>> unaligned addr - unaligned exception is perform and try to load that >>> value separately. If that page is not there, page fault handler is >>> called and not find it, it is performed search from exception table >>> and that address is not there of course - because address in pc is >>> generic unaligned code. I think that handling this needs more code. >>> Maybe if the address with from unaligned exception handler (there are >>> some address which can caused it) and find out which aligned address >>> is there and find out proper fixup for it. I think that this could >>> work. >>> >>> What do you think? >> I think the key point is that the kernel should never try an unaligned >> access. Other architectures already rely on this, so you can too. > > No, other architectures used to rely on this, until it was no longer > possible to do so. See for example, nfs. Unaligned accesses by the kernel > must be handled by the architecture, unaligned accesses by userspace can > be optionally fixed up.
Can you please look at John's email in this thread. How does SH handle this case? I mean when for get/put user address is added unaligned address. How does your kernel handle it? Michal -- Michal Simek, Ing. (M.Eng) w: www.monstr.eu p: +42-0-721842854 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ Ltp-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltp-list
