On Mon, Dec 26, 2022 at 03:24:07PM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently stumped at the moment, so adding linux-mm@ and x86@. Still
> working on it though. Details of where I'm at are below the quote below.
>
> On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 05:21:46AM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 04:09:08AM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > > Hi Eric,
> > >
> > > Replying to you from my telephone, and I'm traveling the next two days,
> > > but I thought I should mention some preliminary results right away from
> > > doing some termux compiles:
> > >
> > > On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 04:14:00PM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > > > Hi Jason,
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 11:31:34AM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > > > > This reverts 3824e25db1 ("x86: disable rng seeding via setup_data"), but
> > > > > for 7.2 rather than 7.1, now that modifying setup_data is safe to do.
> > > > >
> > > > > Cc: Laurent Vivier <laurent@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > Cc: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > Cc: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > Acked-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > ---
> > > > > hw/i386/microvm.c | 2 +-
> > > > > hw/i386/pc_piix.c | 3 ++-
> > > > > hw/i386/pc_q35.c | 3 ++-
> > > > > 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > After upgrading to QEMU 7.2, Linux 6.1 no longer boots with some configs. There
> > > > is no output at all. I bisected it to this commit, and I verified that the
> > > > following change to QEMU's master branch makes the problem go away:
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/hw/i386/pc_piix.c b/hw/i386/pc_piix.c
> > > > index b48047f50c..42f5b07d2f 100644
> > > > --- a/hw/i386/pc_piix.c
> > > > +++ b/hw/i386/pc_piix.c
> > > > @@ -441,6 +441,7 @@ static void pc_i440fx_8_0_machine_options(MachineClass *m)
> > > > pc_i440fx_machine_options(m);
> > > > m->alias = "pc";
> > > > m->is_default = true;
> > > > + PC_MACHINE_CLASS(m)->legacy_no_rng_seed = true;
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > > I've attached the kernel config I am seeing the problem on.
> > > >
> > > > For some reason, the problem also goes away if I disable CONFIG_KASAN.
> > > >
> > > > Any idea what is causing this?
> > >
> > > - Commenting out the call to parse_setup_data() doesn't fix the issue.
> > > So there's no KASAN issue with the actual parser.
> > >
> > > - Using KASAN_OUTLINE rather than INLINE does fix the issue!
> > >
> > > That makes me suspect that it's file size related, and QEMU or the BIOS
> > > is placing setup data at an overlapping offset by accident, or something
> > > similar.
> >
> > I removed the file systems from your config to bring the kernel size
> > back down, and voila, it works, even with KASAN_INLINE. So perhaps I'm
> > on the right track here...
>
> QEMU sticks setup_data after the kernel image, the same as kexec-tools
> and everything else. Apparently, when the kernel image is large, the
> call to early_memremap(boot_params.hdr.setup_data, ...) returns a value
> that points some place bogus, and the system crashes or does something
> weird. I haven't yet determined what this limit is, but in my current
> test kernel, a value of 0x0000000001327650 is enough to make it point to
> rubbish.
>
> Is this expected? What's going on here?
Attaching gdb to QEMU and switching it to physical memory mode
(`maintenance packet Qqemu.PhyMemMode:1 `) indicates that it
early_memremap is actually working fine and something *else* is at this
address? That's kinda weird... Is KASAN populating physical addresses
immediately after the kernel image extremely early in boot? I'm seeing
the crash happen from early_reserve_memory()->
memblock_x86_reserve_range_setup_data(), which should be before
kasan_init() even runs. Is QEMU calculating kernel_size wrong, when it
goes to determine where to put the setup_data data? But that's the same
calculation as used everywhere else, so hmm...
Jason
