Hi Willy,
Thanks for your analysis - see my comments below;
Steve
Willy TARREAU wrote:
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 05:24:33PM -0400, Steve Clark wrote:
(...)
LR; 008727cc <rs_write+148/294>
PC; 0090e5fc <memmove+25c/460> <=====
Trace; 0090e3a0 <memcpy+0/0>
Trace; 008727cc <rs_write+148/294>
r8; 00956228 <tmp_buf+0/1000>
Trace; 00872684 <rs_write+0/294>
(...)
The hardware is the ActionTec DualPC Modem it has a conexant cx82100
arm processor.
I can reproduce it at will by connecting to the internet and running
nttcp thru it at the same time
I am scping file both ways from and to, and then finally starting a
getty on /dev/ttyS0, the modem is
at ttyS1 and also ttyS0 is where all the kernel printk messages come out.
When I start the getty if I have all the other traffic going it
usually will panic in under a minute. IF I don't
have the getty running it will run for hours and not panic.
2.4.32-uc0 with patches from
http://www.bettina-attack.de/jonny/view.php/projects/uclinux_on_cx82100/
Well, at least the cnxtserial.c file looks suspicious to me :
static int rs_write(struct tty_struct * tty, int from_user,
const unsigned char *buf, int count)
{
int c, total = 0;
unsigned long flags;
struct cnxt_serial *info = (struct cnxt_serial *)tty->driver_data;
^^^^^
if (serial_paranoia_check(info,tty->device, "rs_write"))
^^^^^
return 0;
if (!tty || !info->xmit_buf)
return 0;
=> tty already referenced twice before the check. Either the check is
useless, or the person who wrote it had a good reason for it which
was not considered when writing the two lines above. I would suggest
to start from something like this :
static int rs_write(struct tty_struct * tty, int from_user,
const unsigned char *buf, int count)
{
int c, total = 0;
unsigned long flags;
struct cnxt_serial *info;
if (!tty)
return 0;
info = (struct cnxt_serial *)tty->driver_data;
if (serial_paranoia_check(info, tty->device, "rs_write"))
return 0;
if (!info->xmit_buf)
return 0;
I did this - actually I matched to serial.c
Further :
c = MIN(count, MIN(SERIAL_XMIT_SIZE - info->xmit_cnt - 1,
SERIAL_XMIT_SIZE - info->xmit_head));
if (c <= 0)
break;
=> info->xmit_cnt and info->xmit_head are signed ints. If you encounter
memory corruption (eg: during your ethernet transfers) and those get
negative, nothing prevents the buffer from being overwritten past the
end.
Further :
if (from_user) {
down(&tmp_buf_sem);
copy_from_user(tmp_buf, buf, c);
c = MIN(c, MIN(SERIAL_XMIT_SIZE - info->xmit_cnt - 1,
SERIAL_XMIT_SIZE - info->xmit_head));
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
memcpy(info->xmit_buf + info->xmit_head, tmp_buf, c);
up(&tmp_buf_sem);
} else
=> What the hell is this ? c was assigned the same value above, so
we get :
c = MIN(MIN(count, MIN(SERIAL_XMIT_SIZE - info->xmit_cnt - 1,
SERIAL_XMIT_SIZE - info->xmit_head)),
MIN(SERIAL_XMIT_SIZE - info->xmit_cnt - 1,
SERIAL_XMIT_SIZE - info->xmit_head));
I'm not sure this was what the developper originally intented to do,
but although useless, it does not seem incorrect. However, I don't
know if he wanted to further reduce the buffer for any reason.
Also, it appears that nothing prevents any code running outside the
loop from changing info->xmit_buf between the restore_flags() and
the cli(). I don't know if this is functionnaly possible, but at
least it is possible by memory corruption (eg: padding too large
for a packet and writing zeroes past the end of one buffer).
I moved the cli() outside of the while loop - similar to serial.c
You should definitely add printks or at least double checks
everywhere within this loop I think.
I did and info->xmit_head is getting clobbered!
see below:
That's all I can tell, I don't know this platform at all.
Regards,
Willy
xmit_buf+head=a2279c,tmp_buf=956228,c=250
rs_write:xmit_buf=a22000,tmp_buf=956228
xmit_buf+head=a22896,tmp_buf=956228,c=250
rs_write:xmit_buf=a22000,tmp_buf=956228
xmit_buf+head=a22990,tmp_buf=956228,c=19
rs_write:xmit_buf=170f1200,tmp_buf=956228
^^^^^^
xmit_buf+head=170f1200,tmp_buf=956228,c=13
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
0000003f
fault-common.c(97): start_code=0xdc4040, start_stack=0xe11f38)
Internal error: Oops: ffffffff
CPU: 0
pc : [<0090e6a0>] lr : [<00872808>] Not tainted
sp : 00a1fe94 ip : 00000001 fp : 00a1feb8
r10: 00000fff r9 : 00956228 r8 : 0093d26c
r7 : 0000000d r6 : 009922a0 r5 : 00955f00 r4 : 0000000d
r3 : 0000007e r2 : 00000009 r1 : 009922ac r0 : 170f120d
Flags: Nzcv IRQs off FIQs on Mode SVC_32 Segment user
Control: C000107D
Process pppd (pid: 64, stackpage=00a1f000)
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