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Commit a1a371c4 authored by Andy Lutomirski's avatar Andy Lutomirski Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86/fault: Decode page fault OOPSes better



One of Linus' favorite hobbies seems to be looking at OOPSes and
decoding the error code in his head.  This is not one of my favorite
hobbies :)

Teach the page fault OOPS hander to decode the error code.  If it's
a !USER fault from user mode, print an explicit note to that effect
and print out the addresses of various tables that might cause such
an error.

With this patch applied, if I intentionally point the LDT at 0x0 and
run the x86 selftests, I get:

  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000
  HW error: normal kernel read fault
  This was a system access from user code
  IDT: 0xfffffe0000000000 (limit=0xfff) GDT: 0xfffffe0000001000 (limit=0x7f)
  LDTR: 0x50 -- base=0x0 limit=0xfff7
  TR: 0x40 -- base=0xfffffe0000003000 limit=0x206f
  PGD 800000000456e067 P4D 800000000456e067 PUD 4623067 PMD 0
  SMP PTI
  CPU: 0 PID: 153 Comm: ldt_gdt_64 Not tainted 4.19.0+ #1317
  Hardware name: ...
  RIP: 0033:0x401454

Signed-off-by: default avatarAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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/11212acb25980cd1b3030875cd9502414fbb214d.1542841400.git.luto@kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent af2ebdcf
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