Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 10:42:17 -0800 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: strange kernel crash Message-ID: <18887451.3zmRk4crln@ralph.baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <5641AF48.1000507@FreeBSD.org> References: <563C8CED.3020101@FreeBSD.org> <2278845.gkxYBUMIWE@ralph.baldwin.cx> <5641AF48.1000507@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tuesday, November 10, 2015 10:48:08 AM Andriy Gapon wrote: > On 09/11/2015 22:16, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Friday, November 06, 2015 07:02:59 PM Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > >> On 11/06/15 12:20, Andriy Gapon wrote: > >>> Now the strange part: > >>> > >>> 0xffffffff80619a18 <+744>: jne 0xffffffff80619a61 <__mtx_lock_flags+817> > >>> 0xffffffff80619a1a <+746>: mov %rbx,(%rsp) > >>> => 0xffffffff80619a1e <+750>: movq $0x0,0x18(%rsp) > >>> 0xffffffff80619a27 <+759>: movq $0x0,0x10(%rsp) > >>> 0xffffffff80619a30 <+768>: movq $0x0,0x8(%rsp) > >> > >> Were these instructions dumped from RAM or from the kernel ELF file? > > > > Probably not from RAM. You can use 'info files' in gdb to see what is > > handling the address range in question (core vs executable). x/i in ddb > > would have been the "real" truth. > > Yes, according to the output of files it looks like gdb would read that data > from the text section of the kernel file. > > How about libkvm? Would kvm_read read data from the core file? kvm_read should only access the vmcore, yes. > I've written the following small program (cut down dmesg.c, actually): > https://people.freebsd.org/~avg/vmcore_read.c > > (kgdb) disassemble /r > => 0xffffffff80619a1e <+750>: 48 c7 44 24 18 00 00 00 00 movq > $0x0,0x18(%rsp) > > $ vmcore_read -N /boot/kernel.29/kernel -M /var/crash/vmcore.29 0xffffffff80619a1e 9 > 48 c7 44 24 18 00 00 00 00 > > Seems like the code is intact. > > P.S. > 1. To correct something I said earlier, the fault is #UD, not #GP. > 2. The only "suspicious" activity at the time of the crash was the execution of > a bhyve VM. Was the crash in the guest or the host? UD# seems even more bizarre. -- John Baldwin
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