Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] Multi-level page tables and userland mapping fixes, v3

[Riku Voipio]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 01:46:10PM +0100, Jan-Simon Möller wrote:
> We're still investigating the topic. So far, we tracked one failure down to
> ldconfig.real which is a static arm binary executed after the chroot got the 
> basic packages installed. If we setup a chroot with an older qemu-arm and 
> exchange it afterwards with the new qemu and rerun just the build step, it 
> works. Thus it seems to be an issue with static arm binaries atm.
> 
> Strace of a call of ldconfig.real with the qemu-arm failing:
> 
> http://pastie.org/870189
> 
> Sort version:
> 
> address@hidden:/# qemu-arm -strace /sbin/ldconfig.real                  
> 16359 uname(0x403fef78) = 0                                         
> 16359 brk(NULL) = 0x000a9000                                        
> 16359 brk(0x000a9d08) = 0x000a9d08                                  
> 16359 open("/dev/urandom",O_RDONLY) = 3                             
> 16359 read(3,0x403ff27d,3) = 3                                      
> 16359 close(3) = 0                                                  
> [...]
> 16359 stat64("/usr/lib/libgettextlib.so",0x403fdf28) = 0
> 16359 stat64("/usr/lib/libgettextpo.so.0",0x403fdec0) = 0
> 16359 stat64("/usr/lib/libgettextpo.so.0.4.0",0x403fdf28) = 0
> 16359 stat64("/usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0",0x403fdec0) = 0
> 16359 stat64("/usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0",0x403fdf28) = 0
> 16359 open("/etc/ld.so.cache~",O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_NOFOLLOW|O_TRUNC,0600) = 3
> 16359 write(3,0xb03d0,1288) = 1288
> 16359 write(3,0x403ff0a0,0) = -1 errno=14 (Bad address)

A zero sized write. According to manpage ok. 

In qemu we do a lock_user to to get the string to write. Richards change changes
the access checks the get called by lock_user:

page_check_range:

-    if (start + len < start)
-        /* we've wrapped around */
...
+    if (start + len - 1 < start) {
+        /* We've wrapped around.  */

This now blows up with len = 0;

> 16359 write(2,0x403fca08,21)/sbin/ldconfig.real:  = 21
> 16359 write(2,0x403fc9e8,28)Writing of cache data failed = 28
> 16359 write(2,0x403fc5b8,13): Bad address = 13
> 16359 write(2,0x403fc9c0,1)
>  = 1
> 16359 exit_group(1)
> 
> Best,
> Jan-Simon
>