On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 9:35 PM, richard -rw- weinberger
<richard.weinber...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 9:30 PM, Toralf Förster <toralf.foers...@gmx.de> 
> wrote:
>> On 05/15/2013 09:11 PM, richard -rw- weinberger wrote:
>>> On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Toralf Förster <toralf.foers...@gmx.de> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> On 05/13/2013 09:12 AM, richard -rw- weinberger wrote:
>>>>> This looks like another issue.
>>>>> Are you testing process_vm_writev() with trinity?
>>>>> Looks like it managed to overwrite the stub page of a process, which
>>>>> is not good.
>>>> nope, it is the mremap syscall.
>>>>
>>>> A command like
>>>>
>>>> $>trinity -c mremap -N 10
>>>>
>>>> immediately after starting a 32 bit Gentoo linux guest with current kernel 
>>>> 3.10-rc1-... +
>>>> strnlen + stub4 patch works, but later a
>>>>
>>>> $>trinity -c mremap -N 1000
>>>>
>>>> yields into
>>>>
>>>> 2013-05-15T21:02:04.061+02:00 trinity kernel: Stub registers -
>>>> 2013-05-15T21:02:04.061+02:00 trinity kernel:   0 - 100000
>>>> 2013-05-15T21:02:04.061+02:00 trinity kernel:   1 - 300000
>>>> 2013-05-15T21:02:04.061+02:00 trinity kernel:   2 - 0
>>>> 2013-05-15T21:02:04.061+02:00 trinity kernel:   3 - 0
>>>> 2013-05-15T21:02:04.061+02:00 trinity kernel:   4 - 0
>>>> 2013-05-15T21:02:04.061+02:00 trinity kernel:   5 - 0
>>>> 2013-05-15T21:02:04.061+02:00 trinity kernel:   6 - 0
>>>> 2013-05-15T21:02:04.061+02:00 trinity kernel:   7 - 7b
>>>> 2013-05-15T21:02:04.061+02:00 trinity kernel:   8 - 7b
>>>> 2013-05-15T21:02:04.065+02:00 trinity kernel:   9 - 0
>>>> 2013-05-15T21:02:04.065+02:00 trinity kernel:   10 - 33
>>>> 2013-05-15T21:02:04.065+02:00 trinity kernel:   11 - ffffffff
>>>> 2013-05-15T21:02:04.065+02:00 trinity kernel:   12 - 1000c3
>>>> 2013-05-15T21:02:04.065+02:00 trinity kernel:   13 - 73
>>>> 2013-05-15T21:02:04.065+02:00 trinity kernel:   14 - 10206
>>>> 2013-05-15T21:02:04.065+02:00 trinity kernel:   15 - 101028
>>>> 2013-05-15T21:02:04.065+02:00 trinity kernel:   16 - 7b
>>>> 2013-05-15T21:02:04.065+02:00 trinity kernel: wait_stub_done : failed to 
>>>> wait for SIGTRAP, pid = 15692, n = 15692, errno = 0, status = 0xb7f
>>>>
>>>> and now that process can't be killed - I had to stop the UML guest.
>>>
>>> Hmm, you've remapped the stub page and therefore the process broke.
>>> I think it would make sense to kill the process in stead of writing
>>> the "wait_stub_done ..." message.
>>> Changing the stub page is as destructive than overwriting the stack.
>>
>> Unfortunately no trinity process can be killed as soon as that happen.
>> Neither pgrep, pkill, nor "ps -efla" do return any result.
>> Killing any of those processes by its pid won't work too.
>
> Hmm, not good.
> I need to create me a reproducer for that.
> I'm unsure what exactly is going on.

Good news, I have a reproducer for the problem and found out what the
root cause is.
UML is unable to terminate the task with the broken skas page.
A fix is on the way...

--
Thanks,
//richard

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