Re: A bug about system call on ARM

From: Will Deacon
Date: Thu May 30 2013 - 07:42:20 EST


On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:09:49AM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 02:41:42AM +0100, Wang, Yalin wrote:
> > If you have some patch for this issue,
> > I can do the test for it .
>
> I'll have a look at cooking something which uses an exception table entry
> to rewind the PC and retry the system call. That's simpler than directly
> injecting a user page fault from the system call path.

Ok, please can you try the following?

Will

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diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S
index bc5bc0a..855926e 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S
@@ -361,6 +361,15 @@ ENTRY(vector_swi)
str r8, [sp, #S_PSR] @ Save CPSR
str r0, [sp, #S_OLD_R0] @ Save OLD_R0
zero_fp
+ enable_irq
+ ct_user_exit
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_ALIGNMENT_TRAP
+ ldr ip, __cr_alignment
+ ldr ip, [ip]
+ mcr p15, 0, ip, c1, c0 @ update control register
+#endif
+ get_thread_info tsk

/*
* Get the system call number.
@@ -375,9 +384,9 @@ ENTRY(vector_swi)
#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_THUMB
tst r8, #PSR_T_BIT
movne r10, #0 @ no thumb OABI emulation
- ldreq r10, [lr, #-4] @ get SWI instruction
+ USER( ldreq r10, [lr, #-4] ) @ get SWI instruction
#else
- ldr r10, [lr, #-4] @ get SWI instruction
+ USER( ldr r10, [lr, #-4] ) @ get SWI instruction
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_ENDIAN_BE8
rev r10, r10 @ little endian instruction
@@ -392,22 +401,13 @@ ENTRY(vector_swi)
/* Legacy ABI only, possibly thumb mode. */
tst r8, #PSR_T_BIT @ this is SPSR from save_user_regs
addne scno, r7, #__NR_SYSCALL_BASE @ put OS number in
- ldreq scno, [lr, #-4]
+ USER( ldreq scno, [lr, #-4] )

#else
/* Legacy ABI only. */
- ldr scno, [lr, #-4] @ get SWI instruction
-#endif
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_ALIGNMENT_TRAP
- ldr ip, __cr_alignment
- ldr ip, [ip]
- mcr p15, 0, ip, c1, c0 @ update control register
+ USER( ldr scno, [lr, #-4] ) @ get SWI instruction
#endif
- enable_irq
- ct_user_exit

- get_thread_info tsk
adr tbl, sys_call_table @ load syscall table pointer

#if defined(CONFIG_OABI_COMPAT)
@@ -442,6 +442,18 @@ local_restart:
eor r0, scno, #__NR_SYSCALL_BASE @ put OS number back
bcs arm_syscall
b sys_ni_syscall @ not private func
+
+#if defined(CONFIG_OABI_COMPAT) || !defined(CONFIG_AEABI)
+ /*
+ * We may have faulted trying to load the SWI instruction due to
+ * concurrent page aging on another CPU. In this case, return
+ * back to the swi instruction and fault the page back.
+ */
+9001:
+ sub lr, lr, #4
+ str lr, [sp, #S_PC]
+ b ret_fast_syscall
+#endif
ENDPROC(vector_swi)

/*
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