Re: kvm crash in 5.14.1?

From: Darrick J. Wong
Date: Wed Oct 06 2021 - 12:34:28 EST


On Mon, Oct 04, 2021 at 09:54:32AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 10:59:57AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 03:21:09PM +0000, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2021, Stephen wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I got this crash again on 5.14.7 in the early morning of the 27th.
> > > > Things hung up shortly after I'd gone to bed. Uptime was 1 day 9 hours 9
> > > > minutes.
> > >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > > BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000068
> > > > #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
> > > > #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
> > > > PGD 0 P4D 0
> > > > Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
> > > > CPU: 21 PID: 8494 Comm: CPU 7/KVM Tainted: G            E     5.14.7 #32
> > > > Hardware name: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. X570 AORUS ELITE WIFI/X570
> > > > AORUS ELITE WIFI, BIOS F35 07/08/2021
> > > > RIP: 0010:internal_get_user_pages_fast+0x738/0xda0
> > > > Code: 84 24 a0 00 00 00 65 48 2b 04 25 28 00 00 00 0f 85 54 06 00 00 48
> > > > 81 c4 a8 00 00 00 44 89 e0 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f c3 <48> 81 78
> > > > 68 a0 a3 >
> > >
> > > I haven't reproduced the crash, but the code signature (CMP against an absolute
> > > address) is quite distinct, and is consistent across all three crashes. I'm pretty
> > > sure the issue is that page_is_secretmem() doesn't check for a null page->mapping,
> > > e.g. if the page is truncated, which IIUC can happen in parallel since gup() doesn't
> > > hold the lock.
> > >
> > > I think this should fix the problems?
> > >
> > > diff --git a/include/linux/secretmem.h b/include/linux/secretmem.h
> > > index 21c3771e6a56..988528b5da43 100644
> > > --- a/include/linux/secretmem.h
> > > +++ b/include/linux/secretmem.h
> > > @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ static inline bool page_is_secretmem(struct page *page)
> > > mapping = (struct address_space *)
> > > ((unsigned long)page->mapping & ~PAGE_MAPPING_FLAGS);
> > >
> > > - if (mapping != page->mapping)
> > > + if (!mapping || mapping != page->mapping)
> >
> > I'll roll this out on my vm host and try to re-run the mass fuzztest
> > overnight, though IT claims they're going to kill power to the whole
> > datacenter until Monday(!)...
>
> ...which they did, 30 minutes after I sent this email. :(
>
> I'll hopefully be able to report back to the list in a day or two.

Looks like everything went smoothly with the mass fuzz fstesting.
I'll let you know if I see any further failures, but for now:

Tested-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>

--D

> --D
>
> >
> > --D
> >
> > > return false;
> > >
> > > return mapping->a_ops == &secretmem_aops;