linux-kernel - Re: [lkp-robot] [x86] 69218e4799: BUG:kernel_hang_in_boot

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Date:   Tue, 21 Mar 2017 16:51:21 -0700
From:   Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@...gle.com>,
        kernel test robot <xiaolong.ye@...el.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
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Subject: Re: [lkp-robot] [x86] 69218e4799: BUG:kernel_hang_in_boot_stage

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 3:32 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 1:25 PM, Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@...gle.com> wrote:
>>> The issue seems to be related to exceptions happening in close pages
>>> to the fixmap GDT remapping.
>>>
>>> The original page fault happen in do_test_wp_bit which set a fixmap
>>> entry to test WP flag. If I grow the number of processors supported
>>> increasing the distance between the remapped GDT page and the WP test
>>> page, the error does not reproduce.
>>>
>>> I am still looking at the exact distance between repro and no-repro as
>>> well as the exact root cause.
>>
>> Hmm. Have we set the GDT limit incorrectly, somehow? The GDT *can*
>> cover 8k entries, which at 8 bytes each would be 64kB.
>
> The QEMU barf says the GDT limit is 0xff, for better or for worse.
>
>>
>> So somebody trying to load an invalid segment (say, 0xffff) might end
>> up causing an access to the GDT base + 64k - 8.
>>
>> It is also possible that the CPU might do a page table writability
>> check *before* it does the limit check. That would sound odd, though.
>> Might be a CPU errata.
>>
>

> There's presumably something genuinely wrong with our GDT.

This is suspicious.  I added this code in test_wp_bit:

    if (memcmp(get_current_gdt_ro(), get_current_gdt_rw(), 4096) != 0) {
        pr_err("Oh crap\n");
        BUG_ON(1);
    }

It printed "Oh crap" and blew up.  Methinks something's wrong with the
fixmap.  Is it possible that we're crossing a PMD boundary and failing
to translate the addresses right?