Antoine Martin <[email protected]> writes:
>> (..)
>> That is a wrmsr to 0x00000000c0000102 (KERNEL_GS_BASE), the code
>> is trying to write 0x0000c8e816000002 into it. That is a non canonical
>> address, which causes the GPF.
>>
>> The strange thing is that the kernel should have rejected it in
>> the first place. The code to allow user space to set kernel gs
>> checks for the address being > TASK_SIZE and TASK_SIZE is 0x800000000000.
>> It should have rejected it in the first place.
>>
>> Are you sure you did not apply any strange UML related patches
>> to the host kernel? Maybe those are buggy.
> The only extra patch applied on top of what is on the web page (as per
> Jeff's instructions) is the mconsole-exec patch, and AFAIK it wouldn't
> affect the code above.
>
> Alexander Nyberg is also experiencing crashes, aren't you?
Ok, the bug is found now. It is a kernel bug that it allows to set
non canonical addresses in 64bit segment registers through ptrace.
But even if I fixed that then it will not help you run UML, because
UML needs to set correct addresses of course, not illegal ones.
I will submit a patch later for the crash problem.
-Andi
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