From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
To: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>,
"xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Xen PV domain regression with KASLR enabled (kernel 3.16)
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 13:43:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53E4C5D5.2090103@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53E4B281.5050302@canonical.com>
On 08/08/14 12:20, Stefan Bader wrote:
> Unfortunately I have not yet figured out why this happens, but can confirm by
> compiling with or without CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE being set that without KASLR all
> is ok, but with it enabled there are issues (actually a dom0 does not even boot
> as a follow up error).
>
> Details can be seen in [1] but basically this is always some portion of a
> vmalloc allocation failing after hitting a freshly allocated PTE space not being
> PTE_NONE (usually from a module load triggered by systemd-udevd). In the
> non-dom0 case this repeats many times but ends in a guest that allows login. In
> the dom0 case there is a more fatal error at some point causing a crash.
>
> I have not tried this for a normal PV guest but for dom0 it also does not help
> to add "nokaslr" to the kernel command-line.
Maybe it's overlapping with regions of the virtual address space
reserved for Xen? What the the VA that fails?
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-08 12:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-08 11:20 Xen PV domain regression with KASLR enabled (kernel 3.16) Stefan Bader
2014-08-08 12:43 ` David Vrabel [this message]
2014-08-08 14:35 ` [Xen-devel] " Stefan Bader
2014-08-12 17:28 ` Kees Cook
2014-08-12 18:05 ` Stefan Bader
2014-08-12 18:53 ` Kees Cook
2014-08-12 19:07 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-08-21 16:03 ` Kees Cook
2014-08-22 9:20 ` Stefan Bader
2014-08-26 16:01 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-08-27 8:03 ` Stefan Bader
2014-08-27 20:49 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-08-28 18:01 ` [PATCH] Solved the Xen PV/KASLR riddle Stefan Bader
2014-08-28 22:22 ` Kees Cook
2014-08-28 22:42 ` Andrew Cooper
2014-08-29 8:37 ` [Xen-devel] " Stefan Bader
2014-08-29 14:19 ` Andrew Cooper
2014-08-29 14:32 ` Stefan Bader
2014-08-29 14:43 ` Andrew Cooper
2014-08-29 14:08 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-08-29 14:27 ` Stefan Bader
2014-08-29 14:31 ` David Vrabel
2014-08-29 14:35 ` Stefan Bader
2014-08-29 14:44 ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2014-08-29 14:55 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-09-01 4:03 ` Juergen Gross
2014-09-02 19:22 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-09-03 4:07 ` Juergen Gross
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