linux-kernel - Re: general protection fault in perf_misc

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Date:   Tue, 29 Sep 2020 10:33:36 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Cc:     Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>,
        syzbot <syzbot+ce179bc99e64377c24bc@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        syzkaller-bugs <syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
        clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: general protection fault in perf_misc_flags

On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 10:23:53PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 2020/09/28 22:21:01 VMs 3, executed 179, corpus cover 11792, corpus signal 10881, max signal 19337, crashes 0, repro 0

Ok, so far triggered two things:

WARNING in f2fs_is_valid_blkaddr	1	2020/09/29 10:27	reproducing
WARNING in reiserfs_put_super		1	2020/09/28 22:42

you've probably seen them already.

Anyway, next question. Let's say I trigger the corruption: is there a
way to stop the guest VM which has triggered it so that I'm able to
examine it with gdb?

What about kdump? Can I dump the guest memory either with kdump or
through the qemu monitor (I believe there's a command to dump memory) so
that it can be poked at?

Because as it is, we don't have a reproducer and as I see it, the fuzzing simply
gets restarted:

2020/09/29 10:27:03 vm-3: crash: WARNING in f2fs_is_valid_blkaddr
...
2020/09/29 10:27:05 loop: phase=1 shutdown=false instances=1/4 [3] repro: pending=0 reproducing=1 queued=1
2020/09/29 10:27:05 loop: starting instance 3

so it would be good to be able to say, when a vm encounters a crash, it
should be stopped immediately so that the guest can be examined through
qemu's gdb interface, i.e.,

-gdb tcp::<portnum>

or so?

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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