Re: [bug report] KVM: arm64: BUG when reading kcore with kvm-arm.mode=protected

[Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>]

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Hi James,

On Wed, Oct 02, 2024 at 02:23:32PM +0100, James Clark wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed this when running the Perf tests so I'm reporting it here (I don't
> actually need kcore FWIW). I tested from 6.1 to 6.11 with the same results:

Yeah, this is (somewhat) intended behavior. By reading kcore you wind up
reading from memory that isn't in a visible state for the host (e.g. hyp
text).

Protected mode is very much a WIP, and is expected to be rough around the
edges like this. Eventually the hypervisor will inject an abort into the
host for disallowed memory accesses instead of tripping a BUG_ON(). We
don't have that upstream right now.

>   # On the host:
>   $ cat /proc/cmdline
> 
>   BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.11.0-rc6+
> root=UUID=090f43e8-dbb2-48e4-a9e2-efd6291fb21f ro earlycon=pl011,0x2A400000
> kpti=off vfio-pci.ids=10ee:9038 kvm-arm.mode=protected
> 
>   $ sudo dd if=/proc/kcore of=/dev/null
> 
>  # Wait a few seconds
> 
>    kvm [732]: nVHE hyp BUG at: arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c:540!
>    kvm [732]: nVHE call trace:
>    kvm [732]:  [<ffff8000090c2654>] __kvm_nvhe_$x.158+0x44/0x80
>    kvm [732]:  [<ffff8000090c88d4>] __kvm_nvhe_$x.90+0x34/0x124
>    kvm [732]:  [<ffff8000090c4844>] __kvm_nvhe_$x.1+0x4c/0x84
>    kvm [732]:  [<ffff8000090c3864>] __kvm_nvhe_$x.0+0x64/0x64
>    kvm [732]: ---[ end nVHE call trace ]---
>    kvm [732]: Hyp Offset: 0xfffeffff97e00000
>    Kernel panic - not syncing: HYP panic:
>    PS:a04003c9 PC:00008000712c89c8 ESR:00000000f2000800
>    FAR:ffff0000712bf000 HPFAR:0000000000f12bf0 PAR:0000000000000800
>    VCPU:0000000000000000
>    CPU: 1 PID: 732 Comm: dd Not tainted 6.4.0+ #54
>    Call trace:
>     dump_backtrace+0x100/0x158
>     show_stack+0x24/0x40
>     dump_stack_lvl+0x60/0x80
>     dump_stack+0x18/0x28
>     panic+0x148/0x360
>     nvhe_hyp_panic_handler+0x110/0x1a0
>     _copy_to_iter+0xd8/0x520
>     read_kcore_iter+0x54c/0x768
>     proc_reg_read_iter+0xa0/0x118
>     vfs_read+0x1b4/0x290
>     ksys_read+0x80/0xf8
>     __arm64_sys_read+0x28/0x40
>     invoke_syscall+0x4c/0x120
>     el0_svc_common+0xd0/0x120
>     do_el0_svc+0x3c/0xb8
>     el0_svc+0x44/0xb0
>     el0t_64_sync_handler+0x84/0xf0
>     el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x198
>    SMP: stopping secondary CPUs
>    Kernel Offset: disabled
>    CPU features: 0x000000,4040180c,6400720b
>    Memory Limit: none
>    pstore: backend (efi_pstore) writing error (-5)
>    ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: HYP panic:
>    PS:a04003c9 PC:00008000712c89c8 ESR:00000000f2000800
>    FAR:ffff0000712bf000 HPFAR:0000000000f12bf0 PAR:0000000000000800
>    VCPU:0000000000000000 ]---
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Thanks,
Oliver