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From:   Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Date:   Thu, 25 Feb 2021 15:14:23 +0100
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Subject: Re: general protection fault in vmx_vcpu_run (2)
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 6:49 PM Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Dmitry,
>
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 06:12:57PM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> > Looking at the bisection log, the bisection was distracted by something else.
>
> Meaning the bisection result:
>
> 167dcfc08b0b ("x86/mm: Increase pgt_buf size for 5-level page tables")
>
> is bogus?
>
> > You can always find the original reported issue over the dashboard link:
> > https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=42a71c84ef04577f1aef
> > or on lore:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/0000000000007ff56205ba985b60@google.com/
>
> Ok, so this looks like this is trying to run kvm ioctls *in* a guest,
> i.e., nested. Right?

Yes, testing happens in VM. But the kernel that crashes is the one
that receives the ioctls.