Re: kvm [2087]: load/store instruction decoding not implemented

[Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>]

On 24/02/15 15:09, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> On 24/02/15 14:36, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>> I can probably bisect this given time, but I'm going to try putting
>>> some debug into the userspace process to find out which system call
>>> fails first.
> 
> Perhaps not surprisingly, it's the init_module syscall which causes
> the failure, ie. this line of code:
> 
>   https://github.com/libguestfs/supermin/blob/master/src/init.c#L436
> 
> I've no idea why that code would call copy_to_user.  It should be
> copying the other way ...
> 
> It also fails on the first call to init_module, so the fact that it's
> loading crc32-arm64.ko may just be a coincidence.
> 
> There are no other userspace processes running, but just to be sure
> that it's not some other process in the guest, I also added a sleep
> before the call to init_module, but same result as above.
> 
> I also looked at the implementation of init_module in glibc, but
> AFAICT init_module is a straight syscall and glibc is not involved.
> 
> I also looked to see if I was calling init_module correctly on aarch64
> (in case it has a different # of arguments of something) but it's
> called in the same way in the libkmod code, so I think we're OK.
> 
> Next up, I will have a go at bisecting the guest kernel.

Patch posted there:

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2015-February/325445.html

	M.
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