On 2011-04-12 21:41, Sasha Levin wrote: > Hello, > > I've tried using mmap to map the RAM of a guest instead of > posix_memalign which is used both in the kvm tool and qemu. > > Doing so caused a kernel Oops, which happens every time I run the code > and was confirmed both on 2.6.38 and the latest git build of 2.6.39. > > [32109.368018] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference > at 0000000000000008 > [32109.368018] IP: [<ffffffff810033b0>] kvm_vm_ioctl+0xbc/0x33a > [32109.368018] PGD d7202067 PUD 6a838067 PMD 0 > [32109.368018] Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP > [32109.368018] last sysfs file: > /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host2/target2:0:0/2:0:0:0/block/sda/uevent > [32109.368018] CPU 0 > [32109.368018] Modules linked in: > [32109.368018] > [32109.368018] Pid: 20829, comm: kvm Not tainted 2.6.38-gentoo-r1 #4 > System manufacturer System Product Name/P5GC-MX/1333 > [32109.368018] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810033b0>] [<ffffffff810033b0>] > kvm_vm_ioctl+0xbc/0x33a > [32109.368018] RSP: 0018:ffff880037013e28 EFLAGS: 00010207 > [32109.368018] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff880037158000 RCX: 0000000000000000 > [32109.368018] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff880037013d78 RDI: 0000000000000206 > [32109.368018] RBP: ffff880037013ea8 R08: ffff880000098e00 R09: 0000000000000004 > [32109.368018] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffff880037013ca8 R12: 0000000000000000 > [32109.368018] R13: 000000000000ae41 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 > [32109.368018] FS: 00007f83f7cd9700(0000) GS:ffff8800d7c00000(0000) > knlGS:0000000000000000 > [32109.368018] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 > [32109.368018] CR2: 0000000000000008 CR3: 00000000d062e000 CR4: 00000000000026e0 > [32109.368018] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 > [32109.368018] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 > [32109.368018] Process kvm (pid: 20829, threadinfo ffff880037012000, > task ffff88008525d340) > [32109.368018] Stack: > [32109.368018] ffff880037013e48 ffffffff8150d59c ffff88000e9b9308 > ffff88000e9b9308 > [32109.368018] ffff880037013ec8 ffffffff81079e25 ffff8800d7c0e388 > ffff88000e9b9308 > [32109.368018] 0000000000000001 000000000000e380 ffff880037013e98 > ffffffff8105b04e > [32109.368018] Call Trace: > [32109.368018] [<ffffffff8150d59c>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x3c/0x49 > [32109.368018] [<ffffffff81079e25>] ? __hrtimer_start_range_ns+0x2b4/0x2c6 > [32109.368018] [<ffffffff8105b04e>] ? get_parent_ip+0x11/0x41 > [32109.368018] [<ffffffff810f1ba9>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x3f1/0x440 > [32109.368018] [<ffffffff8150d59c>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x3c/0x49 > [32109.368018] [<ffffffff8107605c>] ? sys_timer_settime+0x254/0x2a4 > [32109.368018] [<ffffffff810f1c49>] sys_ioctl+0x51/0x74 > [32109.368018] [<ffffffff81027a52>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b > [32109.368018] Code: 40 40 0f 85 70 02 00 00 e9 13 02 00 00 44 89 e6 > 45 89 e6 48 89 df e8 19 6e 00 00 49 89 c4 49 81 fc 00 f0 ff ff 0f 87 > 6f 02 00 00 <49> c7 44 24 08 00 00 00 00 49 c7 44 24 10 00 00 00 00 49 > c7 44 > [32109.368018] RIP [<ffffffff810033b0>] kvm_vm_ioctl+0xbc/0x33a > [32109.368018] RSP <ffff880037013e28> > [32109.368018] CR2: 0000000000000008 > [32109.368018] [drm] force priority to high > [32109.385714] ---[ end trace 0fc207e73803c472 ]--- > Patch below fixes the oops for me. It looks like the problem was that your guest memory setup caused a conflict with the kernel's desire to map the APIC access page. So alloc_apic_access_page failed, but that error was not properly reported back, causing the NULL pointer dereferencing. Thanks for reporting, Jan -----8<------ From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx> In case certain allocations fail, vmx_create_vcpu may return 0 as error instead of a negative value encoded via ERR_PTR. This causes a NULL pointer dereferencing later on in kvm_vm_ioctl_vcpu_create. Reported-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 5 +++-- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c index aabe333..af52069 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c @@ -4251,8 +4251,8 @@ static struct kvm_vcpu *vmx_create_vcpu(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned int id) goto free_vcpu; vmx->guest_msrs = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL); + err = -ENOMEM; if (!vmx->guest_msrs) { - err = -ENOMEM; goto uninit_vcpu; } @@ -4271,7 +4271,8 @@ static struct kvm_vcpu *vmx_create_vcpu(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned int id) if (err) goto free_vmcs; if (vm_need_virtualize_apic_accesses(kvm)) - if (alloc_apic_access_page(kvm) != 0) + err = alloc_apic_access_page(kvm); + if (err) goto free_vmcs; if (enable_ept) { -- 1.7.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html