Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: point xen_start_info to a dummy struct for PV on HVM guests

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 02:54:42PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 14:51 +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > On Wed, 3 Oct 2012, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 14:37 +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > > > PV on HVM guests don't have a start_info page mapped by Xen, so
> > > > xen_start_info is just NULL for them.
> > > > That is problem because other parts of the code expect xen_start_info to
> > > > point to something valid, for example xen_initial_domain() is defined as
> > > > follow:
> > > > 
> > > > #define xen_initial_domain()    (xen_domain() && \
> > > >                  xen_start_info->flags & SIF_INITDOMAIN)
> > > 
> > > But anyone who calls this before xen_start_info is setup is going to get
> > > a bogus result, specifically in this case they will think they are domU
> > > when in reality they are dom0 -- wouldn't it be better to fix those
> > > callsites?
> > 
> > That cannot be the case because setting up xen_start_info is the very
> > first thing that is done, before even calling to C.
> 
> On PV, yes, but you are trying to fix PVHVM here, no?
> 
> Otherwise if this is always set before calling into C then what is the
> purpose of this patch?

to fix this - as PVHVM has it set to NULL and we end up de-referencing
the xen_start_info and crashing. As so::


Decompressing Linux... Parsing ELF... done.
Booting the kernel.
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[    0.000000] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000030
[    0.000000] IP: [<ffffffff813ab3be>] xen_cons_init+0x1e/0x60
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[    0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.6.0upstream-04121-g0313983 #1 Xen HVM domU
[    0.000000] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff813ab3be>]  [<ffffffff813ab3be>] xen_cons_init+0x1e/0x60
[    0.000000] RSP: 0000:ffffffff81a01ef8  EFLAGS: 00010202
[    0.000000] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffff81b3be60 RCX: 0000000000000002
[    0.000000] RDX: ffffffff81a59c40 RSI: ffffffff81a59b01 RDI: ffffffff81ba7e81
[    0.000000] RBP: ffffffff81a01ef8 R08: 00000000000003fd R09: 0000000000000020
[    0.000000] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 000000000000000d R12: ffffffff81b008e0
[    0.000000] R13: ffffffff81b092e0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000026bf0
[    0.000000] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88007a800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[    0.000000] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
[    0.000000] CR2: 0000000000000030 CR3: 0000000001a0b000 CR4: 00000000000006b0
[    0.000000] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[    0.000000] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[    0.000000] Process swapper/0 (pid: 0, threadinfo ffffffff81a00000, task ffffffff81a13420)
[    0.000000] Stack:
[    0.000000]  ffffffff81a01f18 ffffffff81aeb9fb ffffffff81b008e0 ffffffffffffffff
[    0.000000]  ffffffff81a01f68 ffffffff81abac39 ffffffff81aba80d 0000000000026bf0
[    0.000000]  ffffffff81a01f58 ffffffff81b092e0 0000000001000000 0000000001c72000
[    0.000000] Call Trace:
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff81aeb9fb>] console_init+0x19/0x2a
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff81abac39>] start_kernel+0x24a/0x3a3
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff81aba80d>] ? kernel_init+0x1e8/0x1e8
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff81aba356>] x86_64_start_reservations+0x131/0x136
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff81aba45e>] x86_64_start_kernel+0x103/0x112
[    0.000000] Code: 66 66 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 8b 0d 5a 2e 7c 00 55 31 c0 48 89 e5 85 c9 74 37 48 8b 05 51 2e 7c 00 48 c7 c2 40 9c a5 81 <f6> 40 30 02 75 15 83 f9 02 74 27 e8 52 fc ff ff 85 c0 78 15 48 
[    0.000000] RIP  [<ffffffff813ab3be>] xen_cons_init+0x1e/0x60
[    0.000000]  RSP <ffffffff81a01ef8>
[    0.000000] CR2: 0000000000000030
[    0.000000] ---[ end trace 5cb378039a20e088 ]---
[    0.000000] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task!
> 
> > 
> > 
> > > Perhaps turn this into a static inline with a BUG_ON(!xen_start_info) to
> > > make catching these cases easier?
> > 
>