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From:   Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Date:   Thu, 25 Feb 2021 15:16:05 +0100
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Subject: Re: general protection fault in vmx_vcpu_run (2)
To:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc:     Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
        syzbot <syzbot+42a71c84ef04577f1aef@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>,
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On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 7:08 PM 'Sean Christopherson' via
syzkaller-bugs <syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2021, Borislav Petkov 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?
>
> Ya, looks 100% 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?
>
> Yep.  I tried to run the reproducer yesterday, but the kernel config wouldn't
> boot my VM.  I haven't had time to dig in.  Anyways, I think you can safely
> assume this is a KVM issue unless more data comes along that says otherwise.

Interesting. What happens? Does the kernel crash? Userspace crash?
Rootfs is not mounted? Or something else?