linux-kernel - kvm: WARNING in nested_vmx_merge_msr

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Date:   Tue, 28 Feb 2017 20:06:50 +0100
From:   Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
To:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        KVM list <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Steve Rutherford <srutherford@...gle.com>,
        Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@...ux.intel.com>,
        haozhong.zhang@...el.com
Cc:     syzkaller <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>
Subject: kvm: WARNING in nested_vmx_merge_msr_bitmap

Hello,

I've got the following WARNING while running syzkaller fuzzer:

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WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 7832 at arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:9709
nested_vmx_merge_msr_bitmap arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:9709 [inline]
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 7832 at arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:9709
nested_get_vmcs12_pages+0xfb6/0x15c0 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:9640
Kernel panic - not syncing: panic_on_warn set ...
CPU: 0 PID: 7832 Comm: syz-executor1 Not tainted 4.10.0+ #229
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
Call Trace:
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:15 [inline]
 dump_stack+0x2ee/0x3ef lib/dump_stack.c:51
 panic+0x1fb/0x412 kernel/panic.c:179
 __warn+0x1c4/0x1e0 kernel/panic.c:540
 warn_slowpath_null+0x2c/0x40 kernel/panic.c:583
 nested_vmx_merge_msr_bitmap arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:9709 [inline]
 nested_get_vmcs12_pages+0xfb6/0x15c0 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:9640
 enter_vmx_non_root_mode arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:10471 [inline]
 nested_vmx_run+0x6186/0xaab0 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:10561
 handle_vmlaunch+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:7312
 vmx_handle_exit+0xfc0/0x3f00 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:8526
 vcpu_enter_guest arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:6982 [inline]
 vcpu_run arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:7044 [inline]
 kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x1418/0x4840 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:7205
 kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x673/0x1120 arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:2570
sctp: [Deprecated]: syz-executor2 (pid 7865) Use of int in max_burst
socket option.
Use struct sctp_assoc_value instead
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:43 [inline]
 do_vfs_ioctl+0x1bf/0x1790 fs/ioctl.c:683
 SYSC_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:698 [inline]
 SyS_ioctl+0x8f/0xc0 fs/ioctl.c:689
 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xc2
9pnet_virtio: no channels available for device ./bus
RIP: 0033:0x4458d9
RSP: 002b:00007f248b1abb58 EFLAGS: 00000286 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000000000000001b RCX: 00000000004458d9
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000ae80 RDI: 000000000000001b
RBP: 00000000006dfcd0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000286 R12: 00000000007080a8
R13: 000000000000001a R14: 000000000000001b R15: 00000000201b3000


If I am reading this correctly, failure to map msr bitmap is trivially
trigger-able by guest (specify an invalid address?) and thus should
not be a warning. The case is already handled by disabling
acceleration. So can we remove the warning? or replace with pr_err?