Re: [PATCH v3] PCI: Fix crash during pci_dev hot-unplug on pseries KVM guest

Amit Machhiwal [off-list ref] writes:

On 2024/08/15 01:20 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote:

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Bjorn Helgaas [off-list ref] writes:

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On Sat, Aug 03, 2024 at 12:03:25AM +0530, Amit Machhiwal wrote:

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With CONFIG_PCI_DYNAMIC_OF_NODES [1], a hot-plug and hot-unplug sequence
of a PCI device attached to a PCI-bridge causes following kernel Oops on
a pseries KVM guest:

What is unique about pseries here?  There's nothing specific to
pseries in the patch, so I would expect this to be a generic problem
on any arch.

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 RTAS: event: 2, Type: Hotplug Event (229), Severity: 1
 Kernel attempted to read user page (10ec00000048) - exploit attempt? (uid: 0)
 BUG: Unable to handle kernel data access on read at 0x10ec00000048

Weird address.  I would expect NULL or something.  Where did this
non-NULL pointer come from?

It originally comes from np->data, which is supposed to be an
of_changeset.

The powerpc code also uses np->data for the struct pci_dn pointer, see
pci_add_device_node_info().

I wonder if that's why it's non-NULL?

I'm also looking into the code to figure out where's that value coming from. I
will update as soon as I get there.

Thanks.
 

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Amit, do we have exact steps to reproduce this? I poked around a bit but
couldn't get it to trigger.

Sure, below are the steps:

1. Set CONFIG_PCI_DYNAMIC_OF_NODES=y in the kernel config and compile (Fedora
   has it disabled in it's distro config, Ubuntu has it enabled but will have it
   disabled in the next update)

2. If you are using Fedora cloud images, make sure you've these packages
   installed:
    $ rpm -qa | grep -e 'ppc64-diag\|powerpc-utils'
    powerpc-utils-core-1.3.11-6.fc40.ppc64le
    powerpc-utils-1.3.11-6.fc40.ppc64le
    ppc64-diag-rtas-2.7.9-6.fc40.ppc64le
    ppc64-diag-2.7.9-6.fc40.ppc64le

3. Hotplug a pci device as follows:
    virsh attach-interface <domain_name> bridge --source virbr0

I don't use virsh :)

Any idea how to do it with just qemu monitor commands?

cheers