[Qemu-devel] qemu-system-aarch64 crash from kernel null pointer

[Richard Henderson]

Given a debian standard 4.16.0 kernel,

https://github.com/rth7680/qemu/tree/tgt-arm-sve-c

will crash qemu:

$ gdb --args ../bld/aarch64-softmmu/qemu-system-aarch64 \
  -cpu max -M virt -m 4G -smp 8 \
  -drive if=virtio,file=./deb-arm64.img,format=raw \
  -bios /usr/share/edk2/aarch64/QEMU_EFI.fd

(gdb) bt 5
#0  0x00005555558017b3 in address_space_lookup_region (d=0x0, addr=0,
resolve_subpage=false) at /home/rth/work/qemu/qemu/exec.c:416
#1  0x00005555558018dc in address_space_translate_internal (d=0x0, addr=0,
xlat=0x7fffdaefb478, plen=0x7fffdaefb540, resolve_subpage=false)
    at /home/rth/work/qemu/qemu/exec.c:440
#2  0x00005555558022b5 in address_space_translate_for_iotlb
(cpu=0x7ffff7e2f010, asidx=1, addr=0, xlat=0x7fffdaefb548, plen=0x7fffdaefb540,
attrs=..., prot=0x7fffdaefb520)
    at /home/rth/work/qemu/qemu/exec.c:753
#3  0x000055555587c5a7 in tlb_set_page_with_attrs (cpu=0x7ffff7e2f010, vaddr=0,
paddr=0, attrs=..., prot=7, mmu_idx=3, size=4096)
    at /home/rth/work/qemu/qemu/accel/tcg/cputlb.c:634
#4  0x00005555559fe957 in arm_tlb_fill (cs=0x7ffff7e2f010, address=0,
access_type=MMU_INST_FETCH, mmu_idx=3, fi=0x7fffdaefb680)
    at /home/rth/work/qemu/qemu/target/arm/helper.c:10446
#5  0x00005555559e6e7c in tlb_fill (cs=0x7ffff7e2f010, addr=1536, size=0,
access_type=MMU_INST_FETCH, mmu_idx=3, retaddr=0)
    at /home/rth/work/qemu/qemu/target/arm/op_helper.c:178


I assume the null pointer dereference is due to enabling SVE in ID_AA64PFR0
while missing out on some other bit of configuration.  However, I'm really
surprised about the qemu crash.  I would have expected the kernel null pointer
deref to kill the kernel but not qemu.

If you don't already have such a kernel image, let me know.


r~