Re: [PATCH v1] xen: avoid crash in disable_hotplug_cpu

[Juergen Gross]

On 05/09/18 12:40, Olaf Hering wrote:
> The command 'xl vcpu-set 0 0', issued in dom0, will crash dom0:
> 
> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000002d8
> PGD 0 P4D 0
> Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
> CPU: 7 PID: 65 Comm: xenwatch Not tainted 4.19.0-rc2-1.ga9462db-default #1 openSUSE Tumbleweed (unreleased)
> Hardware name: Intel Corporation S5520UR/S5520UR, BIOS S5500.86B.01.00.0050.050620101605 05/06/2010
> RIP: e030:device_offline+0x9/0xb0
> Code: 77 24 00 e9 ce fe ff ff 48 8b 13 e9 68 ff ff ff 48 8b 13 e9 29 ff ff ff 48 8b 13 e9 ea fe ff ff 90 66 66 66 66 90 41 54 55 53 <f6> 87 d8 02 00 00 01 0f 85 88 00 00 00 48 c7 c2 20 09 60 81 31 f6
> RSP: e02b:ffffc90040f27e80 EFLAGS: 00010203
> RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
> RDX: ffff8801f3800000 RSI: ffffc90040f27e70 RDI: 0000000000000000
> RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffffffff820e47b3 R09: 0000000000000000
> R10: 0000000000007ff0 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff822e6d30
> R13: dead000000000200 R14: dead000000000100 R15: ffffffff8158b4e0
> FS:  00007ffa595158c0(0000) GS:ffff8801f39c0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> CS:  e033 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> CR2: 00000000000002d8 CR3: 00000001d9602000 CR4: 0000000000002660
> Call Trace:
>  handle_vcpu_hotplug_event+0xb5/0xc0
>  xenwatch_thread+0x80/0x140
>  ? wait_woken+0x80/0x80
>  kthread+0x112/0x130
>  ? kthread_create_worker_on_cpu+0x40/0x40
>  ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50
> 
> Fix this crash by checking the return value of get_cpu_device().

Instead of trying to fight the symptoms, I think avoiding to offline
the last cpu would make more sense.

I don't think calling xen_arch_unregister_cpu() just a few lines down
disable_hotplug_cpu() and then setting it as not present will result in
a good user experience.


Juergen