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author | Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> | 2018-12-21 13:36:57 -0800 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2019-04-19 19:31:16 +0200 |
commit | 18ea35c5ed9921867194a8efc2a0ac2d5a3c7d2a (patch) | |
tree | b200e204054142599131657531e6a0dc383ee065 | |
parent | f28b11a2abd9cf5535baa03e28fc63ad0e14f52a (diff) | |
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x86/fault: Decode and print #PF oops in human readable form
Linus pointed out that deciphering the raw #PF error code and printing
a more human readable message are two different things, and also that
printing the negative cases is mostly just noise[1]. For example, the
USER bit doesn't mean the fault originated in user code and stating
that an oops wasn't due to a protection keys violation isn't interesting
since an oops on a keys violation is a one-in-a-million scenario.
Remove the per-bit decoding of the error code and instead print:
- the raw error code
- why the fault occurred
- the effective privilege level of the access
- the type of access
- whether the fault originated in user code or kernel code
This provides the user with the information needed to triage 99.9% of
oopses without polluting the log with useless information or conflating
the error_code with the CPL.
Sample output:
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address = 0000000000000008
#PF: supervisor-privileged instruction fetch from kernel code
#PF: error_code(0x0010) - not-present page
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address = ffffbeef00000000
#PF: supervisor-privileged instruction fetch from kernel code
#PF: error_code(0x0010) - not-present page
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address = ffffc90000230000
#PF: supervisor-privileged write access from kernel code
#PF: error_code(0x000b) - reserved bit violation
[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=whk_fsnxVMvF1T2fFCaP2WrvSybABrLQCWLJyCvHw6NKA@mail.gmail.com
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181221213657.27628-3-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 42 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 31 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c index df2c5cdef5c4..74c9204c5751 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c @@ -603,24 +603,9 @@ static void show_ldttss(const struct desc_ptr *gdt, const char *name, u16 index) name, index, addr, (desc.limit0 | (desc.limit1 << 16))); } -/* - * This helper function transforms the #PF error_code bits into - * "[PROT] [USER]" type of descriptive, almost human-readable error strings: - */ -static void err_str_append(unsigned long error_code, char *buf, unsigned long mask, const char *txt) -{ - if (error_code & mask) { - if (buf[0]) - strcat(buf, " "); - strcat(buf, txt); - } -} - static void show_fault_oops(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code, unsigned long address) { - char err_txt[64]; - if (!oops_may_print()) return; @@ -651,27 +636,22 @@ show_fault_oops(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code, unsigned long ad pr_alert("BUG: unable to handle page fault for address = %px\n", (void *)address); - err_txt[0] = 0; - - /* - * Note: length of these appended strings including the separation space and the - * zero delimiter must fit into err_txt[]. - */ - err_str_append(error_code, err_txt, X86_PF_PROT, "[PROT]" ); - err_str_append(error_code, err_txt, X86_PF_WRITE, "[WRITE]"); - err_str_append(error_code, err_txt, X86_PF_USER, "[USER]" ); - err_str_append(error_code, err_txt, X86_PF_RSVD, "[RSVD]" ); - err_str_append(error_code, err_txt, X86_PF_INSTR, "[INSTR]"); - err_str_append(error_code, err_txt, X86_PF_PK, "[PK]" ); - - pr_alert("#PF error: %s\n", error_code ? err_txt : "[normal kernel read fault]"); + pr_alert("#PF: %s-privileged %s from %s code\n", + (error_code & X86_PF_USER) ? "user" : "supervisor", + (error_code & X86_PF_INSTR) ? "instruction fetch" : + (error_code & X86_PF_WRITE) ? "write access" : + "read access", + user_mode(regs) ? "user" : "kernel"); + pr_alert("#PF: error_code(0x%04lx) - %s\n", error_code, + !(error_code & X86_PF_PROT) ? "not-present page" : + (error_code & X86_PF_RSVD) ? "reserved bit violation" : + (error_code & X86_PF_PK) ? "protection keys violation" : + "permissions violation"); if (!(error_code & X86_PF_USER) && user_mode(regs)) { struct desc_ptr idt, gdt; u16 ldtr, tr; - pr_alert("This was a system access from user code\n"); - /* * This can happen for quite a few reasons. The more obvious * ones are faults accessing the GDT, or LDT. Perhaps |