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Message-ID: <65b3aa5c-c11b-6435-5761-3f1489f18ce5@molgen.mpg.de>
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2019 13:41:25 +0100
From: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@...gen.mpg.de>
To: x86@...nel.org
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: General protection fault in `switch_mm_irqs_off()`
Dear Linux folks,
On 01/03/19 22:45, Paul Menzel wrote:
> On the server board Asus KGPE-D16 with AMD Opteron 6278 processor updating the microcode update in the firmware from 0x0600062e to 0x0600063e seems to cause a general protection fault with Linux 4.14.87 and 4.20-rc7.
>
>> 46.859: [ 7.573240] microcode: CPU31: patch_level=0x0600063e
>> 46.859: [ 7.578507] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.2.
>> 46.860: [ 7.578539] sched_clock: Marking stable (6510054745, 1068444659)->(7999876773, -421377369)
>> 46.860: [ 7.593013] registered taskstats version 1
>> 46.861: [ 7.598091] rtc_cmos 00:00: setting system clock to 2000-01-01 08:01:51 UTC (946713711)
>> 46.862: [ 7.606575] ALSA device list:
>> 46.862: [ 7.609802] No soundcards found.
>> 46.865: [ 7.615887] Freeing unused kernel image memory: 1564K
>> 46.871: [ 7.627073] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 20480k
>> 46.872: [ 7.634366] Freeing unused kernel image memory: 2016K
>> 46.873: [ 7.640297] Freeing unused kernel image memory: 584K
>> 46.874: [ 7.645521] Run /init as init process
>> 46.877: [ 7.652262] general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
>> 46.877: [ 7.657931] CPU: 18 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/18 Not tainted 4.20.0-rc7.mx64.237 #1
>> 46.877: [ 7.665514] Hardware name: ASUS KGPE-D16/KGPE-D16, BIOS 4.9-103-g637bef2037 01/02/2019
>> 46.878: [ 7.673804] RIP: 0010:switch_mm_irqs_off+0xb2/0x640
>> 46.878: [ 7.678948] Code: 48 c1 ef 09 83 e7 01 48 09 c7 65 48 8b 05 8e 34 fc 7e 48 39 c7 74 15 48 09 f8 a8 01 74 0e b9 49 00 00 00 b8 01 00 00 00 31 d2 <0f> 30 65 48 89 3d 6c 34 fc 7e 8b 05 9a ef a7 01 85 c0 0f 8f 41 04
>> 46.879: [ 7.698394] RSP: 0018:ffffc90006343e20 EFLAGS: 00010046
>> 46.879: [ 7.703844] RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff88981ca0b800 RCX: 0000000000000049
>> 46.879: [ 7.711238] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff88981b87cf80 RDI: ffff88981ca0b800
>> 46.880: [ 7.718665] RBP: ffffc90006343e70 R08: 00000001c81bec00 R09: 0000000000000000
>> 46.880: [ 7.726092] R10: ffffc90006343e88 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff82479b40
>> 46.880: [ 7.733494] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000012 R15: ffff88981dd50080
>> 46.881: [ 7.740853] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88981fa80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
>> 46.881: [ 7.749318] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
>> 46.881: [ 7.755281] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000000240a000 CR4: 00000000000406e0
>> 46.881: [ 7.762761] Call Trace:
>> 46.881: [ 7.765369] ? __schedule+0x1b9/0x7b0
>> 46.882: [ 7.769253] __schedule+0x1b9/0x7b0
>> 46.882: [ 7.772930] schedule_idle+0x1e/0x40
>> 46.882: [ 7.776744] do_idle+0x146/0x200
>> 46.882: [ 7.780181] cpu_startup_entry+0x19/0x20
>> 46.883: [ 7.784274] start_secondary+0x183/0x1b0
>> 46.883: [ 7.788409] secondary_startup_64+0xa4/0xb0
>> 46.883: [ 7.792766] Modules linked in:
>> 46.883: [ 7.796105] ---[ end trace a423e363fe1ecf67 ]---
>> 46.884: [ 7.800939] RIP: 0010:switch_mm_irqs_off+0xb2/0x640
>> 46.884: [ 7.806048] Code: 48 c1 ef 09 83 e7 01 48 09 c7 65 48 8b 05 8e 34 fc 7e 48 39 c7 74 15 48 09 f8 a8 01 74 0e b9 49 00 00 00 b8 01 00 00 00 31 d2 <0f> 30 65 48 89 3d 6c 34 fc 7e 8b 05 9a ef a7 01 85 c0 0f 8f 41 04
>> 46.884: [ 7.825440] RSP: 0018:ffffc90006343e20 EFLAGS: 00010046
>> 46.885: [ 7.830855] RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff88981ca0b800 RCX: 0000000000000049
>> 46.885: [ 7.838230] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff88981b87cf80 RDI: ffff88981ca0b800
>> 46.885: [ 7.845614] RBP: ffffc90006343e70 R08: 00000001c81bec00 R09: 0000000000000000
>> 46.886: [ 7.853047] R10: ffffc90006343e88 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff82479b40
>> 46.886: [ 7.860427] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000012 R15: ffff88981dd50080
>> 46.886: [ 7.867862] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88981fa80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
>> 46.886: [ 7.876320] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
>> 46.887: [ 7.882351] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000000240a000 CR4: 00000000000406e0
>> 46.887: [ 7.889746] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task!
>> 46.888: [ 7.896907] Kernel Offset: disabled
>> 46.888: [ 7.900558] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task! ]---
>
> Please find the whole log, including the coreboot messages, attached. The time stamps in the beginning are from the script `readserial.py` from the SeaBIOS repository.
>
> Do you have an idea what is going on, and how to fix it?
Decoding the code, give the output below.
```
$ scripts/decodecode < /dev/shm/test.log
[ 7.806048] Code: 48 c1 ef 09 83 e7 01 48 09 c7 65 48 8b 05 8e 34 fc 7e 48 39 c7 74 15 48 09 f8 a8 01 74 0e b9 49 00 00 00 b8 01 00 00 00 31 d2 <0f> 30 65 48 89 3d 6c 34 fc 7e 8b 05 9a ef a7 01 85 c0 0f 8f 41 04
All code
========
0: 48 c1 ef 09 shr $0x9,%rdi
4: 83 e7 01 and $0x1,%edi
7: 48 09 c7 or %rax,%rdi
a: 65 48 8b 05 8e 34 fc mov %gs:0x7efc348e(%rip),%rax # 0x7efc34a0
11: 7e
12: 48 39 c7 cmp %rax,%rdi
15: 74 15 je 0x2c
17: 48 09 f8 or %rdi,%rax
1a: a8 01 test $0x1,%al
1c: 74 0e je 0x2c
1e: b9 49 00 00 00 mov $0x49,%ecx
23: b8 01 00 00 00 mov $0x1,%eax
28: 31 d2 xor %edx,%edx
2a:* 0f 30 wrmsr <-- trapping instruction
2c: 65 48 89 3d 6c 34 fc mov %rdi,%gs:0x7efc346c(%rip) # 0x7efc34a0
33: 7e
34: 8b 05 9a ef a7 01 mov 0x1a7ef9a(%rip),%eax # 0x1a7efd4
3a: 85 c0 test %eax,%eax
3c: 0f .byte 0xf
3d: 8f 41 04 popq 0x4(%rcx)
Code starting with the faulting instruction
===========================================
0: 0f 30 wrmsr
2: 65 48 89 3d 6c 34 fc mov %rdi,%gs:0x7efc346c(%rip) # 0x7efc3476
9: 7e
a: 8b 05 9a ef a7 01 mov 0x1a7ef9a(%rip),%eax # 0x1a7efaa
10: 85 c0 test %eax,%eax
12: 0f .byte 0xf
13: 8f 41 04 popq 0x4(%rcx)
```
So the problem is with the instruction *wrmsr* [1].
The content of ECX, which according to [1] is written to, is not
in the logs though, as far as I can see.
Kind regards,
Paul
[1]: https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/wrmsr
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