Re: FSGSBASE causing panic on 5.9-rc1

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Wed Aug 19 2020 - 20:21:49 EST


On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 2:25 PM Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 11:19 AM Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On 8/19/20 1:07 PM, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> > > It looks like the FSGSBASE support is crashing my second generation EPYC
> > > system. I was able to bisect it to:
> > >
> > > b745cfba44c1 ("x86/cpu: Enable FSGSBASE on 64bit by default and add a chicken bit")
> > >
> > > The panic only happens when using KVM. Doing kernel builds or stress
> > > on bare-metal appears fine. But if I fire up, in this case, a 64-vCPU
> > > guest and do a kernel build within the guest, I get the following:
> >
> > I should clarify that this panic is on the bare-metal system, not in the
> > guest. And that specifying nofsgsbase on the bare-metal command line fixes
> > the issue.
>
> I certainly see some oddities:
>
> We have this code:
>
> static void svm_vcpu_put(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> {
> struct vcpu_svm *svm = to_svm(vcpu);
> int i;
>
> avic_vcpu_put(vcpu);
>
> ++vcpu->stat.host_state_reload;
> kvm_load_ldt(svm->host.ldt);
> #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
> loadsegment(fs, svm->host.fs);
> wrmsrl(MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE, current->thread.gsbase);
> load_gs_index(svm->host.gs);
>
> Surely that should do load_gs_index() *before* wrmsrl(). But that's
> not the problem at hand.
>
> There are also some open-coded rdmsr and wrmsrs of MSR_GS_BASE --
> surely these should be x86_gsbase_read_cpu() and
> x86_gsbase_write_cpu(). (Those functions don't actually exist, but
> the fsbase equivalents do, and we should add them.) But that's also
> not the problem at hand.

Make that cpu_kernelmode_gs_base(cpu). Perf win on all CPUs.

But I still don't see the bug.