Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Always page align TASK_SIZE

From: Harvey Hunt
Date: Mon Feb 08 2016 - 13:15:24 EST


Hi David,

On 02/08/2016 10:11 AM, David Daney wrote:
On 02/08/2016 10:05 AM, Harvey Hunt wrote:
STACK_TOP_MAX is aligned on a 32k boundary. When __bprm_mm_init()
creates an
initial stack for a process, it does so using STACK_TOP_MAX as the end
of the
vma. A process's arguments and environment information are placed on
the stack
and then the stack is relocated and aligned on a page boundary. When
using a 32
bit kernel with 64k pages, the relocated stack has the process's args
erroneously stored in the middle of the stack. This means that processes
receive no arguments or environment variables, preventing them from
running
correctly.

Fix this by aligning TASK_SIZE on a page boundary.

Signed-off-by: Harvey Hunt <harvey.hunt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
arch/mips/include/asm/processor.h | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/processor.h
b/arch/mips/include/asm/processor.h
index 3f832c3..b618b40 100644
--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/processor.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -39,13 +39,13 @@ extern unsigned int vced_count, vcei_count;
#ifdef CONFIG_32BIT
#ifdef CONFIG_KVM_GUEST
/* User space process size is limited to 1GB in KVM Guest Mode */
-#define TASK_SIZE 0x3fff8000UL
+#define TASK_SIZE (0x40000000UL - PAGE_SIZE)
#else
/*
* User space process size: 2GB. This is hardcoded into a few places,
* so don't change it unless you know what you are doing.
*/
-#define TASK_SIZE 0x7fff8000UL
+#define TASK_SIZE (0x7fff8000UL & PAGE_SIZE)

Can you check your math here. This doesn't seem correct.

Thanks for spotting that - it should have been:

(0x7fff8000UL & PAGE_MASK)

I'll do a v2 now.


#endif

#define STACK_TOP_MAX TASK_SIZE
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ extern unsigned int vced_count, vcei_count;
* support 16TB; the architectural reserve for future expansion is
* 8192EB ...
*/
-#define TASK_SIZE32 0x7fff8000UL
+#define TASK_SIZE32 (0x7fff8000UL & PAGE_SIZE)

Same here.

As above.


#define TASK_SIZE64 0x10000000000UL
#define TASK_SIZE (test_thread_flag(TIF_32BIT_ADDR) ? TASK_SIZE32 :
TASK_SIZE64)
#define STACK_TOP_MAX TASK_SIZE64



Thanks,

Harvey