[LTP] qemu-arm64: handle_futex_death - kernel/futex/core.c:661 - Unable to handle kernel unknown 43 at virtual address

[Naresh Kamboju]

On Thu, 26 Oct 2023 at 21:09, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 26 Oct 2023 at 17:30, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 08:11:26PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> > > Following kernel crash noticed on qemu-arm64 while running LTP syscalls
> > > set_robust_list test case running Linux next 6.6.0-rc7-next-20231026 and
> > > 6.6.0-rc7-next-20231025.
> > >
> > > BAD: next-20231025
> > > Good: next-20231024
> > >
> > > Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@linaro.org>
> > > Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
> > >
> > > Log:
> > > ----
> > > <1>[  203.119139] Unable to handle kernel unknown 43 at virtual
> > > address 0001ffff9e2e7d78
> > > <1>[  203.119838] Mem abort info:
> > > <1>[  203.120064]   ESR = 0x000000009793002b
> > > <1>[  203.121040]   EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
> > > set_robust_list01    1  TPASS  :  set_robust_list: retval = -1
> > > (expected -1), errno = 22 (expected 22)
> > > set_robust_list01    2  TPASS  :  set_robust_list: retval = 0
> > > (expected 0), errno = 0 (expected 0)
> > > <1>[  203.124496]   SET = 0, FnV = 0
> > > <1>[  203.124778]   EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
> > > <1>[  203.125029]   FSC = 0x2b: unknown 43
> >
> > It looks like this is fallout from the LPA2 enablement.
> >
> > According to the latest ARM ARM (ARM DDI 0487J.a), page D19-6475, that "unknown
> > 43" (0x2b / 0b101011) is the DFSC for a level -1 translation fault:
> >
> >         0b101011 When FEAT_LPA2 is implemented:
> >                  Translation fault, level -1.
> >
> > It's triggered here by an LDTR in a get_user() on a bogus userspace address.
> > The exception is expected, and it's supposed to be handled via the exception
> > fixups, but the LPA2 patches didn't update the fault_info table entries for all
> > the level -1 faults, and so those all get handled by do_bad() and don't call
> > fixup_exception(), causing them to be fatal.
> >
> > It should be relatively simple to update the fault_info table for the level -1
> > faults, but given the other issues we're seeing I think it's probably worth
> > dropping the LPA2 patches for the moment.
> >
>
> Thanks for the analysis Mark.
>
> I agree that this should not be difficult to fix, but given the other
> CI problems and identified loose ends, I am not going to object to
> dropping this partially or entirely at this point. I'm sure everybody
> will be thrilled to go over those 60 patches again after I rebase them
> onto v6.7-rc1 :-)

I am happy to test any proposed fix patch.

- Naresh