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Message-ID: <fbcc1453-23b0-e911-5512-2d1a25e9a1d8@virtuozzo.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2018 20:32:57 +0300
From: Vasily Averin <vvs@...tuozzo.com>
To: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
Cc: owl-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: 32-bit syscall breakage in -431 kernel with KAISER
Dear ALexander,
Do you observe host crash on start of microcode_ctl service?
I did not found the reason of crash-on boot on my test node,
now I think it was caused by some misconfiguration on our buildsystem.
I've recompiled kernel manually and successfully bootedit on my test node.
However then node was crashed on start of microcode_ctl service on host.
I've found that on our kernel __cpuinit moves get_scattered_cpuid_extra() into init section,
but this function can be called lagally called after initialization,
from microcode_write() -> spec_ctrl_rescan_cpuid()
Issue was caused by CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU enabled on Red Hat but disabled on our kernels.
Therefore I afraid your kernel should be affected too.
Could you please clarify this question?
Thank you,
Vasily Averin
On 06/29/2018 07:41 PM, Solar Designer wrote:
> Vasily,
>
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 07:08:02PM +0300, Vasily Averin wrote:
>> On 06/28/2018 05:11 PM, Vasily Averin wrote:
>>> On my test node I observe strange exception right on boot of 64-bit kernel,
>>> it is not handles properly and writes 0 into EIP and it crashes the kernel.
>>>
>>> So I'm going to troubloeshoot qemu with gdb, hope it helps tofind the resoun of the trouble.
>>
>> I have stable reproducer, but even with single-step and hardware breakpoints I still cannot intercept this mysterious exception.
>> it adds an extra frame on regular stack, changes EIP to 0, then generates page_fault an crashes.
>>
>> Alexander,
>> could you please drop me your config for 64bit kernel?
>
> You can get our kernel configs here:
>
> http://cvsweb.openwall.com/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/Owl/packages/kernel/
>
> Meanwhile, Chris who reported the problem on owl-users has confirmed
> that Pavel's fix works for him.
>
> Alexander
>
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