Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: Ensure liveliness of nested VM-Enter fail tracepoint message

[Sean Christopherson]

On Wed, Jun 09, 2021, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jun 2021 at 02:00, Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Use the __string() machinery provided by the tracing subystem to make a
> > copy of the string literals consumed by the "nested VM-Enter failed"
> > tracepoint.  A complete copy is necessary to ensure that the tracepoint
> > can't outlive the data/memory it consumes and deference stale memory.
> >
> > Because the tracepoint itself is defined by kvm, if kvm-intel and/or
> > kvm-amd are built as modules, the memory holding the string literals
> > defined by the vendor modules will be freed when the module is unloaded,
> > whereas the tracepoint and its data in the ring buffer will live until
> > kvm is unloaded (or "indefinitely" if kvm is built-in).
> >
> > This bug has existed since the tracepoint was added, but was recently
> > exposed by a new check in tracing to detect exactly this type of bug.
> >
> >   fmt: '%s%s
> >   ' current_buffer: ' vmx_dirty_log_t-140127  [003] ....  kvm_nested_vmenter_failed: '
> >   WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 140134 at kernel/trace/trace.c:3759 trace_check_vprintf+0x3be/0x3e0
> >   CPU: 3 PID: 140134 Comm: less Not tainted 5.13.0-rc1-ce2e73ce600a-req #184
> >   Hardware name: ASUS Q87M-E/Q87M-E, BIOS 1102 03/03/2014
> >   RIP: 0010:trace_check_vprintf+0x3be/0x3e0
> >   Code: <0f> 0b 44 8b 4c 24 1c e9 a9 fe ff ff c6 44 02 ff 00 49 8b 97 b0 20
> >   RSP: 0018:ffffa895cc37bcb0 EFLAGS: 00010282
> >   RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffa895cc37bd08 RCX: 0000000000000027
> >   RDX: 0000000000000027 RSI: 00000000ffffdfff RDI: ffff9766cfad74f8
> >   RBP: ffffffffc0a041d4 R08: ffff9766cfad74f0 R09: ffffa895cc37bad8
> >   R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffffffffc0a041d4
> >   R13: ffffffffc0f4dba8 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff976409f2c000
> >   FS:  00007f92fa200740(0000) GS:ffff9766cfac0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> >   CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> >   CR2: 0000559bd11b0000 CR3: 000000019fbaa002 CR4: 00000000001726e0
> >   Call Trace:
> >    trace_event_printf+0x5e/0x80
> >    trace_raw_output_kvm_nested_vmenter_failed+0x3a/0x60 [kvm]
> >    print_trace_line+0x1dd/0x4e0
> >    s_show+0x45/0x150
> >    seq_read_iter+0x2d5/0x4c0
> >    seq_read+0x106/0x150
> >    vfs_read+0x98/0x180
> >    ksys_read+0x5f/0xe0
> >    do_syscall_64+0x40/0xb0
> >    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
> 
> I can observe tons of other kvm tracepoints warning like this after
> commit 9a6944fee68e25 (tracing: Add a verifier to check string
> pointers for trace events), just echo 1 >
> /sys/kernel/tracing/events/kvm/enable and boot a linux guest.

Can you provide your .config?  With all of events/kvm and events/kvmmmu enabled
I don't get any warnings running a Linux guest, a nested Linux guest, and
kvm-unit-tests.

Do you see the behavior with other tracepoints?  E.g. enabling all events on my
systems yields warnings for a USB module, but everything else is clean.