Re: /proc/*/pagemap BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context

[Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>]

On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 12:25:54PM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> After
> 	cat /proc/self/pagemap
> 
> BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at include/asm/uaccess.h:453
> in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0

This should fix it:

When CONFIG_HIGHPTE is enabled, use double-buffering in pagemap to
avoid calling copy_to_user while preemption is disabled.

Tested on x86 with HIGHPTE with DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP and
PROVE_LOCKING.

Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>

Index: mm/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
===================================================================
--- mm.orig/fs/proc/task_mmu.c	2007-04-09 10:54:28.000000000 -0500
+++ mm/fs/proc/task_mmu.c	2007-04-10 14:47:21.000000000 -0500
@@ -535,6 +535,7 @@ struct pagemapread {
 	struct mm_struct *mm;
 	unsigned long next;
 	unsigned long *buf;
+	pte_t *ptebuf;
 	unsigned long pos;
 	size_t count;
 	int index;
@@ -573,6 +574,14 @@ static int pagemap_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd,
 	int err;
 
 	pte = pte_offset_map(pmd, addr);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHPTE
+	/* copy PTE directory to temporary buffer and unmap it */
+	memcpy(pm->ptebuf, pte, PAGE_ALIGN((unsigned long)pte) - (unsigned long)pte);
+	pte_unmap(pte);
+	pte = pm->ptebuf;
+#endif
+
 	for (; addr != end; pte++, addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
 		if (addr < pm->next)
 			continue;
@@ -583,7 +592,11 @@ static int pagemap_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd,
 		if (err)
 			return err;
 	}
+
+#ifndef CONFIG_HIGHPTE
 	pte_unmap(pte - 1);
+#endif
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -655,10 +668,16 @@ static ssize_t pagemap_read(struct file 
 	if (!page)
 		goto out;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHPTE
+	pm.ptebuf = kzalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_USER);
+	if (!pm.ptebuf)
+		goto out_free;
+#endif
+
 	ret = 0;
 	mm = get_task_mm(task);
 	if (!mm)
-		goto out_free;
+		goto out_freepte;
 
 	pm.mm = mm;
 	pm.next = addr;
@@ -681,7 +700,7 @@ static ssize_t pagemap_read(struct file 
 	while (pm.count > 0 && vma) {
 		if (!ptrace_may_attach(task)) {
 			ret = -EIO;
-			goto out;
+			goto out_mm;
 		}
 		vend = min(vma->vm_start - 1, end - 1) + 1;
 		ret = pagemap_fill(&pm, vend);
@@ -700,8 +719,13 @@ static ssize_t pagemap_read(struct file 
 	if (!ret)
 		ret = pm.pos - src;
 
+out_mm:
 	mmput(mm);
+out_freepte:
+#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHPTE
+	kfree(pm.ptebuf);
 out_free:
+#endif
 	kfree(page);
 out:
 	put_task_struct(task);


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