Re: Crash on kvm_iommu_map_pages

From: Jan Kiszka
Date: Mon Nov 01 2010 - 10:22:33 EST


Am 01.11.2010 14:53, Roedel, Joerg wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 09:25:00AM -0400, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> Am 01.11.2010 14:21, Roedel, Joerg wrote:
>>> The registers rax and rbx contain non-canonical addresses (if
>>> interpreted as pointers). The instruction where this happens is a mov so
>>> I guess that the #GP is because of an non-canonical address.
>>> Can you find out the code-line where this happens and the exact
>>> assembler instruction? (haven't managed to decode the registers used).
>>
>> In pfn_to_dma_pte, line 710:
>>
>> if (!dma_pte_present(pte)) {
>> ffffffff8121de8c: f6 03 03 testb $0x3,(%rbx)
>> ffffffff8121de8f: 0f 85 d8 00 00 00 jne ffffffff8121df6d <pfn_to_dma_pte+0x154>
>>
>> The first instruction raises the fault.
>
> Ok, so it seems that my understanding of the Code: field in the
> crash-message was wrong :)
> Anyway, the testb uses rbx as an address which has a non-canonical
> value. This means the the address of 'pte' is invalid. Since rax also
> contains a wrong address the 'parent' variable probably already contains
> the wrong address. Does the attached patch help?
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/dma_remapping.h b/include/linux/dma_remapping.h
> index 5619f85..ca46f24 100644
> --- a/include/linux/dma_remapping.h
> +++ b/include/linux/dma_remapping.h
> @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
> */
> #define VTD_PAGE_SHIFT (12)
> #define VTD_PAGE_SIZE (1UL << VTD_PAGE_SHIFT)
> -#define VTD_PAGE_MASK (((u64)-1) << VTD_PAGE_SHIFT)
> +#define VTD_PAGE_MASK ((((u64)-1) << VTD_PAGE_SHIFT) & ((1ULL << 52) - 1))
> #define VTD_PAGE_ALIGN(addr) (((addr) + VTD_PAGE_SIZE - 1) & VTD_PAGE_MASK)
>
> #define DMA_PTE_READ (1)
>

Crashes during early boot while initializing dmar. If you need the
trace, I could set up some debug console.

Jan

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