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Bug 1353835 - cannot access vmalloc'd module memory when loading memory dump in crash
Summary: cannot access vmalloc'd module memory when loading memory dump in crash
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1240497
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: qemu-kvm-rhev
Version: 7.3
Hardware: ppc64le
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: David Gibson
QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-07-08 07:14 UTC by mazhang
Modified: 2016-09-20 04:41 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2016-08-02 12:36:27 UTC
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Description mazhang 2016-07-08 07:14:51 UTC
Description of problem:
Try dump guest memory with various formats by qmp command, there are three formats can't loading in crash which is lzo snappy and zlib.
This could be a bug of crash, but I'm not very sure about it.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Host:
3.10.0-462.el7.ppc64le
qemu-kvm-rhev-2.6.0-11.el7.ppc64le
crash-7.1.5-1.el7.ppc64le

Guest:
3.10.0-462.el7.ppc64le

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Boot guest and dump guest memory:

{"execute": "dump-guest-memory", "arguments": { "paging": false, "protocol": "file:/home/dump.zlib", "format": "kdump-zlib"}}
{"timestamp": {"seconds": 1467956988, "microseconds": 623110}, "event": "STOP"}
{"timestamp": {"seconds": 1467957018, "microseconds": 754681}, "event": "DUMP_COMPLETED", "data": {"result": {"total": 2164260864, "status": "completed", "completed": 2164260864}}}
{"timestamp": {"seconds": 1467957018, "microseconds": 755788}, "event": "RESUME"}
{"return": {}}

{"execute": "dump-guest-memory", "arguments": { "paging": false, "protocol": "file:/home/dump.lzo", "format": "kdump-lzo"}}
{"timestamp": {"seconds": 1467957147, "microseconds": 884762}, "event": "STOP"}
{"timestamp": {"seconds": 1467957153, "microseconds": 122147}, "event": "DUMP_COMPLETED", "data": {"result": {"total": 2164260864, "status": "completed", "completed": 2164260864}}}
{"timestamp": {"seconds": 1467957153, "microseconds": 122578}, "event": "RESUME"}
{"return": {}}

{"execute": "dump-guest-memory", "arguments": { "paging": false, "protocol": "file:/home/dump.snappy", "format": "kdump-snappy"}}
{"timestamp": {"seconds": 1467957311, "microseconds": 795600}, "event": "STOP"}
{"timestamp": {"seconds": 1467957315, "microseconds": 278356}, "event": "DUMP_COMPLETED", "data": {"result": {"total": 2164260864, "status": "completed", "completed": 2164260864}}}
{"timestamp": {"seconds": 1467957315, "microseconds": 278762}, "event": "RESUME"}
{"return": {}}


2. Analyze dump file by crash.
# crash /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/`uname -r`/vmlinux dump.zlib 

crash 7.1.5-1.el7
Copyright (C) 2002-2016  Red Hat, Inc.
Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010  IBM Corporation
Copyright (C) 1999-2006  Hewlett-Packard Co
Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2011, 2012  Fujitsu Limited
Copyright (C) 2006, 2007  VA Linux Systems Japan K.K.
Copyright (C) 2005, 2011  NEC Corporation
Copyright (C) 1999, 2002, 2007  Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002  Mission Critical Linux, Inc.
This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License,
and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under
certain conditions.  Enter "help copying" to see the conditions.
This program has absolutely no warranty.  Enter "help warranty" for details.
 
GNU gdb (GDB) 7.6                              
Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu"...

please wait... (gathering module symbol data)   
WARNING: cannot access vmalloc'd module memory


crash: cannot determine idle task addresses from init_tasks[] or runqueues[]

crash: cannot resolve "init_task_union"


lzo and snappy got the same problem, only elf format can be load.

3.

Actual results:
Can not load dump file.

Expected results:
Can be load.

Additional info:
x86 can't hit this problem.

Comment 2 Thomas Huth 2016-07-19 11:59:54 UTC
Note: Bug 1240497 ("virsh dump --memory-only --format kdump-[zlib|lzo|snappy]" creates invalid compressed dumpfile header on ppc64) might be related to this one, or maybe it's even a duplicate.

Comment 3 Andrea Bolognani 2016-08-02 12:36:27 UTC
(In reply to Thomas Huth from comment #2)
> Note: Bug 1240497 ("virsh dump --memory-only --format
> kdump-[zlib|lzo|snappy]" creates invalid compressed dumpfile header on
> ppc64) might be related to this one, or maybe it's even a duplicate.

This bug is indeed a duplicate of Bug 1240497: even though
the error message is different, I've verified that everything
else is the same, in particular the mismatch in block_size
between a dump created with format "kdump-zlib" and one
initially created with format "elf" and later compressed using
the makedumpfile utility.

Furthermore, I've verified that the dumps created using "virsh
dump" (as in Bug 1240497) and those created using the
"dump-guest-memory" QMP command (as in this bug) behave exactly
the same, and that libvirt itself is doing nothing but set up
a file descriptor and call the QMP command.

So I'm closing this bug as a duplicate and reassign Bug 1240497
from libvirt to QEMU; I'll add more information in the other
bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1240497 ***


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