Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86/entry: Fix idtentry unwind hint

Andrei Vagin
2017-11-13T22:06:38Z

Hi Josh,

On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 8:24 AM, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 02:07:38PM -0700, Andrei Vagin wrote:
>> Hi Josh,
>>
>> Here is one more warning:
>> [ 5.852094] WARNING: can't dereference iret registers at ffffb6ce01b7ffe0 for ip entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0xa/0xc2
>
> Thanks, I hadn't seen this one yet.
>
> I suspect this is in the middle of the ENABLE_INTERRUPTS() paravirt
> code, which would mean this is another issue that will be fixed by my
> "Make pv ops code generation more closely match reality" patches.
>
> If you can share either the entry_64.o file or the .config, and what
> virt platform it's running on (kvm, xen, native), I should be able to
> confirm the issue.
>
> I'm in Prague this week but I should have a v2 of those patches in a
> week or two (will cc you).

Do you have any news? We still see this warning in the kernel log. Thanks!

>
> --
> Josh