linux-kernel - Re: SNP guest crash in memblock with unaccepted memory

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Message-ID: <aBI2N-aUSXgLOgF0@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:39:51 +0300
From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
	Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
	"Kalra, Ashish" <ashish.kalra@....com>,
	Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@...el.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-coco@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Michael Roth <michael.roth@....com>
Subject: Re: SNP guest crash in memblock with unaccepted memory

On Wed, Apr 30, 2025 at 12:14:08PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 04:04:50PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> > On 27.04.25 17:01, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> > > Hi Kirill,
> > > 
> > > Every now and then I experience an SNP guest boot failure for accessing
> > > memory that hasn't been accepted. I managed to get a back trace:
> > > 
> > >    RIP: 0010:memcpy_orig+0x68/0x130
> > >    Code: ...
> > >    RSP: 0000:ffffffff9cc03ce8 EFLAGS: 00010006
> > >    RAX: ff11001ff83e5000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: fffffffffffff000
> > >    RDX: 0000000000000bc0 RSI: ffffffff9dba8860 RDI: ff11001ff83e5c00
> > >    RBP: 0000000000002000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000002000
> > >    R10: 000000207fffe000 R11: 0000040000000000 R12: ffffffff9d06ef78
> > >    R13: ff11001ff83e5000 R14: ffffffff9dba7c60 R15: 0000000000000c00
> > >    memblock_double_array+0xff/0x310
> > >    memblock_add_range+0x1fb/0x2f0
> > >    memblock_reserve+0x4f/0xa0
> > >    memblock_alloc_range_nid+0xac/0x130
> > >    memblock_alloc_internal+0x53/0xc0
> > >    memblock_alloc_try_nid+0x3d/0xa0
> > >    swiotlb_init_remap+0x149/0x2f0
> > >    mem_init+0xb/0xb0
> > >    mm_core_init+0x8f/0x350
> > >    start_kernel+0x17e/0x5d0
> > >    x86_64_start_reservations+0x14/0x30
> > >    x86_64_start_kernel+0x92/0xa0
> > >    secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0x194/0x19b
> > > 
> > > I don't know a lot about memblock, but it appears that it needs to
> > > allocate more memory for it's regions array and returns a range of memory
> > > that hasn't been accepted. When the memcpy() runs, the SNP guest gets a
> > > #VC 0x404 because of this.
> > > 
> > > Do you think it is as simple as calling accept_memory() on the memory
> > > range returned from memblock_find_in_range() in memblock_double_array()?
> > 
> > (not Kirill, but replying :) )
> > 
> > Yeah, we seem to be effectively allocating memory from memblock ("from
> > ourselves") without considering that memory must be accepted first.
> > 
> > accept_memory() on the new memory (in case of !slab) should be the right
> > thing to do.
> 
> Right, it should do the trick.
> 
> BTW, Mike, is there any other codepath where memblock allocates memory for
> itself? We need to cover them too.

memblock_double_arrayi() is the only place where memblock allocates memory
for itself.
 
> -- 
>   Kiryl Shutsemau / Kirill A. Shutemov

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.