Re: Fwd: [Bug 150021] New: kernel panic: "kernel tried to execute NX-protected page" when resuming from hibernate to disk

From: Josh Poimboeuf
Date: Tue Jul 26 2016 - 17:53:27 EST


On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 10:15:39PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 26, 2016 09:39:05 AM Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 01:32:28PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > The following commit:
> > >
> > > commit 13523309495cdbd57a0d344c0d5d574987af007f
> > > Author: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Date: Thu Jan 21 16:49:21 2016 -0600
> > >
> > > x86/asm/acpi: Create a stack frame in do_suspend_lowlevel()
> > >
> > > do_suspend_lowlevel() is a callable non-leaf function which doesn't
> > > honor CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER, which can result in bad stack traces.
> > >
> > > Create a stack frame for it when CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is enabled.
> > >
> > > is reported to cause a resume-from-hibernation regression due to an attempt
> > > to execute an NX page (we've seen quite a bit of that recently).
> > >
> > > I'm asking the reporter to try 4.7, but if the problem is still there, we'll
> > > need to revert the above I'm afraid.
>
> So the bug is still there in 4.7 and it goes away after reverting the above
> commit. I guess I'll send a revert then.

Hm, the code in wakeup_64.S seems quite magical, but I can't figure out
why this change causes a panic. Is it really causing the panic or is it
uncovering some other bug? Maybe we should hold off on reverting until
we understand the issue.

--
Josh