linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 00/10] klp-convert livepatch build tooling

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Message-ID: <b1a627a4-3702-9689-6c03-0c2123c06a2d@redhat.com>
Date:   Thu, 13 Jun 2019 09:15:39 -0400
From:   Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@...hat.com>
To:     Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, live-patching@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/10] klp-convert livepatch build tooling

On 6/13/19 9:00 AM, Miroslav Benes wrote:
> Hi Joe,
> 
> first, I'm sorry for the lack of response so far.
> 
> Maybe you've already noticed but the selftests fail. Well, at least in
> my VM. When test_klp_convert1.ko is loaded, the process is killed with
> 
> [  518.041826] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
> [  518.042816] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
> [  518.043393] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
> [  518.043981] PGD 0 P4D 0
> [  518.044185] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
> [  518.044518] CPU: 2 PID: 2255 Comm: insmod Tainted: G           O  K   5.1.0-klp_convert_v4-193435-g67748576637e #2
> [  518.045784] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.12.1-0-ga5cab58-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
> [  518.046940] RIP: 0010:test_klp_convert_init+0x1c/0x40 [test_klp_convert1]
> [  518.047611] Code: 1b a0 48 89 c6 e9 a8 c0 f4 e0 0f 1f 40 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 53 48 c7 c7 00 30 1b a0 e8 5e 33 f6 e0 85 c0 89 c3 74 04 89 d8 5b c3 <48> 8b 35 5d ef e4 5f 48 c7 c7 28 20 1b a0 e8 75 c0 f4 e0 e8 6c ff
> [  518.049779] RSP: 0018:ffffc90000f37cc8 EFLAGS: 00010246
> [  518.050243] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000027de0
> [  518.050922] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000006 RDI: ffff88807ab54f40
> [  518.051619] RBP: ffffffffa01b1080 R08: 0000000096efde7a R09: 0000000000000001
> [  518.052332] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 00000000ffffffff
> [  518.053012] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff888078b55000 R15: ffffc90000f37ea0
> [  518.053714] FS:  00007febece1fb80(0000) GS:ffff88807d400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> [  518.054514] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> [  518.055078] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000007a56a000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
> [  518.055818] Call Trace:
> [  518.056007]  do_one_initcall+0x6a/0x2da
> [  518.056340]  ? do_init_module+0x22/0x230
> [  518.056702]  ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x96/0xa0
> [  518.057125]  ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x284/0x2e0
> [  518.057493]  do_init_module+0x5a/0x230
> [  518.057900]  load_module+0x17bc/0x1f50
> [  518.058214]  ? __symbol_put+0x40/0x40
> [  518.058499]  ? vfs_read+0x12d/0x160
> [  518.058766]  __do_sys_finit_module+0x83/0xc0
> [  518.059122]  do_syscall_64+0x57/0x190
> [  518.059407]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe
> ...
> 
> It crashes right in test_klp_convert_init() when print_*() using
> supposed-to-be-converted symbols are called. I'll debug it next week. Can
> you reproduce it too?

Hey, thanks for the report..

I don't recall the tests crashing, but I had put this patchset on the 
side for a few weeks now.  I'll try to fire up a VM and see what happens 
today.

> Regards,
> Miroslav
> 
> PS: it is probably not a coincidence that I come across selftests failures
> right before I leave for a holiday...
> 

Are you volunteering to go on holidays for each patchset until all of 
the selftests pass? :)

-- Joe