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SubjectRe: 3.12: kernel panic when resuming from suspend to RAM (x86_64)
Hello Borislav,

Le 17/11/2013 23:06, Borislav Petkov a écrit :
> On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 09:49:40PM +0100, Francis Moreau wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
>>> On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 07:02:21PM +0100, Francis Moreau wrote:
>>>> Sorry I haven't taken the original picture large enough, and getting
>>>> this kernel panic is pretty hard since the kernel usually displays the
>>>> black screen.
>>>
>>> Ok, just try to make a readable picture of the whole line, next time you
>>> trigger it.
>>>
>>>> I can't find any traces of this function in the dump...
>>>
>>> Hmm, strange. Can you upload the whole vmlinux somewhere? Or is this the
>>> official archlinux kernel? If so, where can I get it from?
>>
>> Yes, you can download the bin package from :
>> https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/linux/
>>
>> The bin package is a tar archive, so it pretty straightforward to
>> unpack the vmlinux file (actual is filename vmlinuz-linux).
>
> Ok, here's what I was able to see: rIP points to call_timer_fn+0x33
> which is this:
>
> ffffffff8106f590 <call_timer_fn>:
> ffffffff8106f590: e8 2b b2 48 00 callq ffffffff814fa7c0 <__fentry__>
> ffffffff8106f595: 55 push %rbp
> ffffffff8106f596: 65 48 8b 04 25 70 c7 mov %gs:0xc770,%rax
> ffffffff8106f59d: 00 00
> ffffffff8106f59f: 48 89 e5 mov %rsp,%rbp
> ffffffff8106f5a2: 41 57 push %r15
> ffffffff8106f5a4: 49 89 d7 mov %rdx,%r15
> ffffffff8106f5a7: 41 56 push %r14
> ffffffff8106f5a9: 49 89 f6 mov %rsi,%r14
> ffffffff8106f5ac: 41 55 push %r13
> ffffffff8106f5ae: 41 54 push %r12
> ffffffff8106f5b0: 49 89 fc mov %rdi,%r12
> ffffffff8106f5b3: 53 push %rbx
> ffffffff8106f5b4: 44 8b a8 44 e0 ff ff mov -0x1fbc(%rax),%r13d
> ffffffff8106f5bb: 0f 1f 44 00 00 nopl 0x0(%rax,%rax,1)
> ffffffff8106f5c0: 4c 89 ff mov %r15,%rdi
> ffffffff8106f5c3: 41 ff d6 callq *%r14 <--- faulting insn
> ffffffff8106f5c6: 0f 1f 44 00 00 nopl 0x0(%rax,%rax,1)
> ffffffff8106f5cb: 65 48 8b 04 25 70 c7 mov %gs:0xc770,%rax
> ffffffff8106f5d2: 00 00
> ffffffff8106f5d4: 44 39 a8 44 e0 ff ff cmp %r13d,-0x1fbc(%rax)
>
> and the virtual address in rIP is ffffffff8106f5c3, i.e. the same one
> as in the photo. Thus, the CALL instruction tries to call the timer
> function 'fn' which we pass as an argument to call_timer_fn.
>
> However, the address we're trying to call in %r14 is garbage:
> 0x455300323d504544 and not in canonical form, causing the #GP.
>

Thanks for digging this out !

Just out of curiosity, running "objdump -D" doesn't seem to show the
same thing here. How did you get such dump with function names for example ?

> So basically what happens is suspend to RAM corrupts something
> containing one or more timer functions and we end up calling crap after
> resume.
>
> If you want to debug this further, you could try playing through
> Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt and see whether suspend to
> disk works. There's also a section 2 which talks about testing suspend
> to RAM which could be of help.

The thing is that I'd like to avoid to oops my kernel to avoid to
corrupt my filesystem.

Thanks
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