Re: Hang when booting guest kernels compiled with clang after SRSO mitigations

From: Nathan Chancellor
Date: Thu Aug 10 2023 - 12:14:26 EST


On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 08:48:31AM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 05:14:10PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > Also, can you bisect rc5..master to see which exact patch is causing
> > this?
>
> Sure thing. I at least isolated it to the SRSO merge, so I will just
> bisect that to see the exact commit that causes this.

Heh, figured this would be the case:

# bad: [138bcddb86d8a4f842e4ed6f0585abc9b1a764ff] Merge tag 'x86_bugs_srso' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
# good: [14f9643dc90adea074a0ffb7a17d337eafc6a5cc] Merge tag 'wq-for-6.5-rc5-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq
git bisect start '138bcddb86d8a4f842e4ed6f0585abc9b1a764ff' '14f9643dc90adea074a0ffb7a17d337eafc6a5cc'
# bad: [233d6f68b98d480a7c42ebe78c38f79d44741ca9] x86/srso: Add IBPB
git bisect bad 233d6f68b98d480a7c42ebe78c38f79d44741ca9
# bad: [fb3bd914b3ec28f5fb697ac55c4846ac2d542855] x86/srso: Add a Speculative RAS Overflow mitigation
git bisect bad fb3bd914b3ec28f5fb697ac55c4846ac2d542855
# good: [0e52740ffd10c6c316837c6c128f460f1aaba1ea] x86/bugs: Increase the x86 bugs vector size to two u32s
git bisect good 0e52740ffd10c6c316837c6c128f460f1aaba1ea
# first bad commit: [fb3bd914b3ec28f5fb697ac55c4846ac2d542855] x86/srso: Add a Speculative RAS Overflow mitigation

Not sure how helpful that will be...

Cheers,
Nathan