Re: Linux kernel: powerpc: KVM guest can trigger host crash on Power8

From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
To: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>,
	mpe@ellerman.id.au
Cc: oss-security@lists.openwall.com,
	"debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org"
	<debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Linux kernel: powerpc: KVM guest can trigger host crash on Power8
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 15:29:16 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1635312497.knx718t0h2.astroid@bobo.none> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <05b88724-90b6-a38a-bb3b-7392f85c1934@physik.fu-berlin.de>

Excerpts from John Paul Adrian Glaubitz's message of October 26, 2021 6:48 pm:
> Hi Michael!
> 
>> The Linux kernel for powerpc since v5.2 has a bug which allows a
>> malicious KVM guest to crash the host, when the host is running on
>> Power8.
>> 
>> Only machines using Linux as the hypervisor, aka. KVM, powernv or bare
>> metal, are affected by the bug. Machines running PowerVM are not
>> affected.
>> 
>> The bug was introduced in:
>> 
>>     10d91611f426 ("powerpc/64s: Reimplement book3s idle code in C")
>> 
>> Which was first released in v5.2.
>> 
>> The upstream fix is:
>> 
>>   cdeb5d7d890e ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Make idle_kvm_start_guest() return 0 if it went to guest")
>>   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=cdeb5d7d890e14f3b70e8087e745c4a6a7d9f337
>> 
>> Which will be included in the v5.16 release.
> 
> I have tested these patches against 5.14 but it seems the problem [1] still remains for me
> for big-endian guests. I built a patched kernel yesterday, rebooted the KVM server and let
> the build daemons do their work over night.
> 
> When I got up this morning, I noticed the machine was down, so I checked the serial console
> via IPMI and saw the same messages again as reported in [1]:
> 
> [41483.963562] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#104 stuck for 25521s! [migration/104:175]
> [41507.963307] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#104 stuck for 25544s! [migration/104:175]
> [41518.311200] rcu: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
> [41518.311216] rcu:     136-...0: (135 ticks this GP) idle=242/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=32031/32033 fqs=2729959 
> [41547.962882] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#104 stuck for 25581s! [migration/104:175]
> [41571.962627] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#104 stuck for 25603s! [migration/104:175]
> [41581.330530] rcu: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
> [41581.330546] rcu:     136-...0: (135 ticks this GP) idle=242/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=32031/32033 fqs=2736378 
> [41611.962202] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#104 stuck for 25641s! [migration/104:175]
> [41635.961947] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#104 stuck for 25663s! [migration/104:175]
> [41644.349859] rcu: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
> [41644.349876] rcu:     136-...0: (135 ticks this GP) idle=242/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=32031/32033 fqs=2742753 
> [41671.961564] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#104 stuck for 25697s! [migration/104:175]
> [41695.961309] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#104 stuck for 25719s! [migration/104:175]
> [41707.369190] rcu: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
> [41707.369206] rcu:     136-...0: (135 ticks this GP) idle=242/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=32031/32033 fqs=2749151 
> [41735.960884] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#104 stuck for 25756s! [migration/104:175]
> [41759.960629] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#104 stuck for 25778s! [migration/104:175]
> [41770.388520] rcu: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
> [41770.388548] rcu:     136-...0: (135 ticks this GP) idle=242/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=32031/32033 fqs=2755540 
> [41776.076307] rcu: rcu_sched kthread timer wakeup didn't happen for 1423 jiffies! g49897 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x402
> [41776.076327] rcu:     Possible timer handling issue on cpu=32 timer-softirq=1056014
> [41776.076336] rcu: rcu_sched kthread starved for 1424 jiffies! g49897 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x402 ->cpu=32
> [41776.076350] rcu:     Unless rcu_sched kthread gets sufficient CPU time, OOM is now expected behavior.
> [41776.076360] rcu: RCU grace-period kthread stack dump:
> [41776.076434] rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
> [41783.960374] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#104 stuck for 25801s! [migration/104:175]
> [41807.960119] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#104 stuck for 25823s! [migration/104:175]
> [41831.959864] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#104 stuck for 25846s! [migration/104:175]
> [41833.407851] rcu: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
> [41833.407868] rcu:     136-...0: (135 ticks this GP) idle=242/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=32031/32033 fqs=2760381 
> [41863.959524] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#104 stuck for 25875s! [migration/104:175]

I don't suppose you were able to get any more of the log saved? (The 
first error messages that happened might be interesting)

Thanks,
Nick