Hi Oren,

I'm now trying to port your patchset to x86_64, and find a tiny
inconsistency issue.


On 2008-10-30 at 09:51 -0400, Oren Laadan wrote:

+/* dump the thread_struct of a given task */
+int cr_write_thread(struct cr_ctx *ctx, struct task_struct *t)
+{
+	struct cr_hdr h;
+	struct cr_hdr_thread *hh = cr_hbuf_get(ctx, sizeof(*hh));
+	struct thread_struct *thread;
+	struct desc_struct *desc;
+	int ntls = 0;
+	int n, ret;
+
+	h.type = CR_HDR_THREAD;
+	h.len = sizeof(*hh);
+	h.parent = task_pid_vnr(t);
+
+	thread = &t->thread;
+
+	/* calculate no. of TLS entries that follow */
+	desc = thread->tls_array;
+	for (n = GDT_ENTRY_TLS_ENTRIES; n > 0; n--, desc++) {
+		if (desc->a || desc->b)
+			ntls++;
+	}
+
+	hh->gdt_entry_tls_entries = GDT_ENTRY_TLS_ENTRIES;
+	hh->sizeof_tls_array = sizeof(thread->tls_array);
+	hh->ntls = ntls;
+
+	ret = cr_write_obj(ctx, &h, hh);
+	cr_hbuf_put(ctx, sizeof(*hh));
+	if (ret < 0)
+		return ret;

Please add
   if (ntls == 0)
            return ret;
because, in restart phase, reading TLS entries from the image file
is skipped if hh->ntls == 0, which may incur inconsistency and fail
to restart.

+	/* for simplicity dump the entire array, cherry-pick upon restart */
+	ret = cr_kwrite(ctx, thread->tls_array, sizeof(thread->tls_array));
+
+	cr_debug("ntls %d\n", ntls);
+
+	/* IGNORE RESTART BLOCKS FOR NOW ... */
+
+	return ret;
+}

(snip)

+/* read the thread_struct into the current task */
+int cr_read_thread(struct cr_ctx *ctx)
+{
+	struct cr_hdr_thread *hh = cr_hbuf_get(ctx, sizeof(*hh));
+	struct task_struct *t = current;
+	struct thread_struct *thread = &t->thread;
+	int parent, ret;
+
+	parent = cr_read_obj_type(ctx, hh, sizeof(*hh), CR_HDR_THREAD);
+	if (parent < 0) {
+		ret = parent;
+		goto out;
+	}
+
+	ret = -EINVAL;
+
+#if 0	/* activate when containers are used */
+	if (parent != task_pid_vnr(t))
+		goto out;
+#endif
+	cr_debug("ntls %d\n", hh->ntls);
+
+	if (hh->gdt_entry_tls_entries != GDT_ENTRY_TLS_ENTRIES ||
+	    hh->sizeof_tls_array != sizeof(thread->tls_array) ||
+	    hh->ntls < 0 || hh->ntls > GDT_ENTRY_TLS_ENTRIES)
+		goto out;
+
+	if (hh->ntls > 0) {
+		struct desc_struct *desc;
+		int size, cpu;
+
+		/*
+		 * restore TLS by hand: why convert to struct user_desc if
+		 * sys_set_thread_entry() will convert it back ?
+		 */
+
+		size = sizeof(*desc) * GDT_ENTRY_TLS_ENTRIES;
+		desc = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (!desc)
+			return -ENOMEM;
+
+		ret = cr_kread(ctx, desc, size);
+		if (ret >= 0) {
+			/*
+			 * FIX: add sanity checks (eg. that values makes
+			 * sense, that we don't overwrite old values, etc
+			 */
+			cpu = get_cpu();
+			memcpy(thread->tls_array, desc, size);
+			load_TLS(thread, cpu);
+			put_cpu();
+		}
+		kfree(desc);
+	}
+
+	ret = 0;
+ out:
+	cr_hbuf_put(ctx, sizeof(*hh));
+	return ret;
+}

Thanks,

Masahiko.

---
Masahiko Takahashi / m-takahashi@ex.jp.nec.com

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