linux-kernel - Re: general protection fault in vmx_vcpu

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Date:   Wed, 24 Feb 2021 10:07:53 -0800
From:   Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        syzbot <syzbot+42a71c84ef04577f1aef@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        KVM list <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@...il.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        syzkaller-bugs <syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>, wanpengli@...cent.com,
        the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: general protection fault in vmx_vcpu_run (2)

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Hi Dmitry,
> 
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 06:12:57PM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> > Looking at the bisection log, the bisection was distracted by something else.
> 
> Meaning the bisection result:
> 
> 167dcfc08b0b ("x86/mm: Increase pgt_buf size for 5-level page tables")
> 
> is bogus?

Ya, looks 100% bogus.

> > You can always find the original reported issue over the dashboard link:
> > https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=42a71c84ef04577f1aef
> > or on lore:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/0000000000007ff56205ba985b60@google.com/
> 
> Ok, so this looks like this is trying to run kvm ioctls *in* a guest,
> i.e., nested. Right?

Yep.  I tried to run the reproducer yesterday, but the kernel config wouldn't
boot my VM.  I haven't had time to dig in.  Anyways, I think you can safely
assume this is a KVM issue unless more data comes along that says otherwise.