linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 2/4] x86/traps: Print address on #GP

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Date:   Wed, 18 Dec 2019 22:55:28 +0100
From:   Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        "the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        kasan-dev <kasan-dev@...glegroups.com>,
        kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 2/4] x86/traps: Print address on #GP

On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 6:06 PM Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 09, 2019 at 03:31:18PM +0100, Jann Horn wrote:
> >     I have already sent a patch to syzkaller that relaxes their parsing of GPF
> >     messages (https://github.com/google/syzkaller/commit/432c7650) such that
> >     changes like the one in this patch don't break it.
> >     That patch has already made its way into syzbot's syzkaller instances
> >     according to <https://syzkaller.appspot.com/upstream>.
>
> Ok, cool.
>
> I still think we should do the oops number marking, though, as it has
> more benefits than just syzkaller scanning for it. The first oops has always
> been of crucial importance so having the number in there:
>
> [    2.542218] [1] general protection fault while derefing a non-canonical address 0xdfff000000000001: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
>                 ^
>
> would make eyeballing oopses even easier. Basically the same reason why
> you're doing this enhancement. :)
>
> So let me know if you don't have time to do it or you don't care about
> it etc, and I'll have a look.

I don't think I have time to do this in the near future. Feel free to
implement this.