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Re: [Qemu-devel] kvm bug in __rmap_clear_dirty during live migration

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On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 05:35:17PM +0800, Herongguang (Stephen) wrote:
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> On 2017/2/24 10:23, Herongguang (Stephen) wrote:
> > 
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> > On 2017/2/22 22:43, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On 22/02/2017 14:31, Chris Friesen wrote:
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> > > > > 
> > > > > Can you reproduce it with kernel 4.8+?  I'm suspecting commmit
> > > > > 4e59516a12a6 ("kvm: vmx: ensure VMCS is current while enabling PML",
> > > > > 2016-07-14) to be the fix.
> > > > 
> > > > I can't easily try with a newer kernel, the software package we're using
> > > > has kernel patches that would have to be ported.
> > > > 
> > > > I'm at a conference, don't really have time to set up a pair of test
> > > > machines from scratch with a custom kernel.
> > > 
> > > Hopefully Gaohuai and Rongguang can help with this too.
> > > 
> > > Paolo
> > > 
> > > .
> > > 
> > Yes, we are looking into and testing this.
> > 
> > I think this can result in any memory corruption, if VM1 writes its
> > PML buffer into VM2’s VMCS (since sched_in/sched_out notifier of VM1
> > is not registered yet), then VM1 is destroyed (hence its PML buffer
> > is freed back to kernel), after that, VM2 starts migration, so CPU
> > logs VM2’s dirty GFNS into a freed memory, results in any memory corruption.
> > 
> > As its severity, this commit (http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4e59516a12a6ef6dcb660cb3a3f70c64bd60cfec)
> > is eligible to back port to kernel stable.
> 
> Hi, Greg, can you cherry pick commit 4e59516a12a6ef6dcb660cb3a3f70c64bd60cfec to 4.4-y?

If the KVM maintainers say it is ok to do so, yes, I will.

thanks,

greg k-h

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Re: [Qemu-devel] kvm bug in __rmap_clear_dirty during live migration "Herongguang (Stephen)" <herongguang.he@huawei.com> - 2017-02-24 03:30 +0100
  Re: [Qemu-devel] kvm bug in __rmap_clear_dirty during live migration "Herongguang (Stephen)" <herongguang.he@huawei.com> - 2017-02-24 10:40 +0100
    Re: [Qemu-devel] kvm bug in __rmap_clear_dirty during live migration Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-02-24 11:10 +0100
    Re: [Qemu-devel] kvm bug in __rmap_clear_dirty during live migration Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-02-24 11:10 +0100
      Re: [Qemu-devel] kvm bug in __rmap_clear_dirty during live migration Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2017-02-24 11:10 +0100
  Re: [Qemu-devel] kvm bug in __rmap_clear_dirty during live migration Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2017-02-24 16:20 +0100
    Re: [Qemu-devel] kvm bug in __rmap_clear_dirty during live migration "Herongguang (Stephen)" <herongguang.he@huawei.com> - 2017-02-25 02:50 +0100
      Re: [Qemu-devel] kvm bug in __rmap_clear_dirty during live migration "Huang, Kai" <kai.huang@linux.intel.com> - 2017-02-27 08:50 +0100
  Re: [Qemu-devel] kvm bug in __rmap_clear_dirty during live migration Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@windriver.com> - 2017-02-24 16:20 +0100

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