linux-kernel - Re: PROBLEM: syzkaller found / reduced C repro for non-fatal unchecked MSR access error

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Date:   Fri, 11 Jan 2019 13:37:50 +0000
From:   Esme <esploit@...tonmail.ch>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        JJiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: syzkaller found / reduced C repro for non-fatal unchecked MSR access error

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Friday, January 11, 2019 5:02 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 11:21:16PM +0000, Esme wrote:
>
> > Attached is a fairly small C repro I did not see any references to
> > this possible flaw (unchecked MSR access) in relation to
> > __NR_perf_event_open
> > Attached is the config directly extracted from proc. This is the call
> > stack in relation to the MSR access error (5.0.0-rc1+), I get a very
> > similar stack running this test case on a stock Ubuntu
> > "4.18.0-11-generic" (pasted after this one).
>
> > -- Esme
> > [ 70.228744] unchecked MSR access error: WRMSR to 0xc0010000 (tried to write 0x0000020000130076) at rIP: 0xffffffff812dde28 (native_write_msr+0x8/0x30)
>
> That's K7_EVNTSEL0. What kind of hardware are you running this on?

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[    0.000000] Linux version 4.18.0-11-generic (buildd@...01-amd64-027) (gcc version 8.2.0 (Ubuntu 8.2.0-7ubuntu1)) #12-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 23 19:22:37 UTC 2018 (Ubuntu 4.18.0-11.12-generic 4.18.12)
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[    0.000000]   AMD AuthenticAMD
[    0.000000]   Centaur CentaurHauls
[    0.000000] random: get_random_u32 called from bsp_init_amd+0x205/0x2a0 with crng_init=0
[    0.000000] x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x001: 'x87 floating point registers'
[    0.000000] x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x002: 'SSE registers'
[    0.000000] x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x004: 'AVX registers'
[    0.000000] x86/fpu: xstate_offset[2]:  576, xstate_sizes[2]:  256
[    0.000000] x86/fpu: Enabled xstate features 0x7, context size is 832 bytes, using 'standard' format.