Sometimes when setting a breakpoint a process doesn't stop on it. This is because the debug registers are not loaded correctly on VCPU load. The following simple reproducer from Oleg Nesterov tries using debug registers in two threads. To see the bug, run a 2-VCPU guest under "taskset -c 0", then run "./bp 0 1" inside the guest. #include <unistd.h> #include <signal.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <sys/wait.h> #include <sys/ptrace.h> #include <sys/user.h> #include <asm/debugreg.h> #include <assert.h> #define offsetof(TYPE, MEMBER) ((size_t) &((TYPE *)0)->MEMBER) unsigned long encode_dr7(int drnum, int enable, unsigned int type, unsigned int len) { unsigned long dr7; dr7 = ((len | type) & 0xf) << (DR_CONTROL_SHIFT + drnum * DR_CONTROL_SIZE); if (enable) dr7 |= (DR_GLOBAL_ENABLE << (drnum * DR_ENABLE_SIZE)); return dr7; } int write_dr(int pid, int dr, unsigned long val) { return ptrace(PTRACE_POKEUSER, pid, offsetof (struct user, u_debugreg[dr]), val); } void set_bp(pid_t pid, void *addr) { unsigned long dr7; assert(write_dr(pid, 0, (long)addr) == 0); dr7 = encode_dr7(0, 1, DR_RW_EXECUTE, DR_LEN_1); assert(write_dr(pid, 7, dr7) == 0); } void *get_rip(int pid) { return (void*)ptrace(PTRACE_PEEKUSER, pid, offsetof(struct user, regs.rip), 0); } void test(int nr) { void *bp_addr = &&label + nr, *bp_hit; int pid; printf("test bp %d\n", nr); assert(nr < 16); // see 16 asm nops below pid = fork(); if (!pid) { assert(ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME, 0,0,0) == 0); kill(getpid(), SIGSTOP); for (;;) { label: asm ( "nop; nop; nop; nop;" "nop; nop; nop; nop;" "nop; nop; nop; nop;" "nop; nop; nop; nop;" ); } } assert(pid == wait(NULL)); set_bp(pid, bp_addr); for (;;) { assert(ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, pid, 0, 0) == 0); assert(pid == wait(NULL)); bp_hit = get_rip(pid); if (bp_hit != bp_addr) fprintf(stderr, "ERR!! hit wrong bp %ld != %d\n", bp_hit - &&label, nr); } } int main(int argc, const char *argv[]) { while (--argc) { int nr = atoi(*++argv); if (!fork()) test(nr); } while (wait(NULL) > 0) ; return 0; } Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Suggested-by: Nadav Amit <namit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Andrey Wagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Andrey, sorry for the time it took to get to this one. arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c index 4244c2baf57d..f4891f2ece23 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c @@ -2752,6 +2752,7 @@ void kvm_arch_vcpu_load(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu) } kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_STEAL_UPDATE, vcpu); + vcpu->arch.switch_db_regs |= KVM_DEBUGREG_RELOAD; } void kvm_arch_vcpu_put(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) -- 1.8.3.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html