Re: 4.12 REGRESSION, 4.12 does not boot as VirtualBox guest

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Jun 12 2017 - 07:53:06 EST


On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 10:16:53AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Jun 2017, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 3:33 AM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Sorry for escalating this right up to you, but this issue
> > > does not seem to be getting any attention and I'm not sure
> > > which subsys maintainer to poke about this.
> >
> > Looks like x86. Added people.
> >
> > > The problem is that the 4.12-rc# kernels fail to boot on
> > > VirtualBox guests hosted on any machine with a Sky Lake
> > > (and probably also a Kaby Lake) CPU, for details see:
> > >
> > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195961
>
> Looks like the WARN/BUG rework. Peter????

I wasn't aware we'd call WARN _that_ early. Does something like so make
it work?

---
arch/x86/include/asm/extable.h | 1 +
arch/x86/kernel/traps.c | 2 +-
arch/x86/mm/extable.c | 3 +++
3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/extable.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/extable.h
index b8ad261d11dc..c66d19e3c23e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/extable.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/extable.h
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ struct pt_regs;
} while (0)

extern int fixup_exception(struct pt_regs *regs, int trapnr);
+extern int fixup_bug(struct pt_regs *regs, int trapnr);
extern bool ex_has_fault_handler(unsigned long ip);
extern void early_fixup_exception(struct pt_regs *regs, int trapnr);

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
index 3995d3a777d4..bf54309b85da 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ int is_valid_bugaddr(unsigned long addr)
return ud == INSN_UD0 || ud == INSN_UD2;
}

-static int fixup_bug(struct pt_regs *regs, int trapnr)
+int fixup_bug(struct pt_regs *regs, int trapnr)
{
if (trapnr != X86_TRAP_UD)
return 0;
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/extable.c b/arch/x86/mm/extable.c
index 35ea061010a1..0ea8afcb929c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/extable.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/extable.c
@@ -162,6 +162,9 @@ void __init early_fixup_exception(struct pt_regs *regs, int trapnr)
if (fixup_exception(regs, trapnr))
return;

+ if (fixup_bug(regs, trapnr))
+ return;
+
fail:
early_printk("PANIC: early exception 0x%02x IP %lx:%lx error %lx cr2 0x%lx\n",
(unsigned)trapnr, (unsigned long)regs->cs, regs->ip,