linux-kernel - Re: PANIC: double fault, error_code: 0x0 in 4.0.0-rc3-2, kvm related?

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Date:	Wed, 18 Mar 2015 15:40:44 -0700
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:	Stefan Seyfried <stefan.seyfried@...glemail.com>
Cc:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: PANIC: double fault, error_code: 0x0 in 4.0.0-rc3-2, kvm related?

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Stefan Seyfried
<stefan.seyfried@...glemail.com> wrote:
> Am 18.03.2015 um 23:29 schrieb Andy Lutomirski:
>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 3:22 PM, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz> wrote:
>>> On Wed, 18 Mar 2015, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>>>
>>>> sysret64 can only fail with #GP, and we're totally screwed if that
>>>> happens,
>>>
>>> But what if the GPF handler pagefaults afterwards? It'd be operating on
>>> user stack already.
>>
>> Good point.
>>
>> Stefan, can you try changing the first "jne
>> opportunistic_sysret_failed" to "jmp opportunistic_sysret_failed" in
>> entry_64.S and seeing if you can reproduce this?  (Is it easy enough
>> to reproduce that this would tell us anything?)
>
> I have no good way of reproducing the issue (happens once per week...)
> but apparently Takashi has, so I'd like to hand this task over to him.
>
>> It's a shame that double_fault doesn't record what gs was on entry.
>> If we did sysret -> general_protection -> page_fault -> double_fault,
>> then we'd enter double_fault with usergs, whereas syscall ->
>> page_fault -> double_fault would enter double_fault with kernelgs.
>>
>> Hmm.  We may be able to answer this more directly.  Stefan, can you
>> dump a couple hundred bytes starting at 0x00007fffa55eafb8 (i.e. your
>> page_fault stack at the time of the failure)?  That will tell us the
>> faulting address.  If that fails, try starting at 00007fffa55eb000
>> instead.
>
> Unfortunately not, is this userspace memory? It's not in the dump I have.
> This issue is the first I have seen where having a full dump would be
> really helpful apart from cosmetic reasons...

Yes, it's userspace.  Thanks for checking, though.

--Andy
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