Re: [Qemu-devel] sending SEGV to qemu crashes host kernel in Fedora 19

[Josh Boyer]

On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 9:11 PM, Dave Airlie <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Dave Airlie <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> F19
>> kernel-3.9.8-300.fc19.x86_64
>> qemu-kvm-1.4.2-4.fc19.x86_64
>>
>> If I start a complete F19 install in the guest and send the qemu
>> process a SEGV signal, the host kernel starts giving me random kmalloc
>> errors soon after, if I send a normal kill signal things seem fine.
>>
>> CPU is Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz, on a HP 220z workstation.
>>
>> I initially blamed bad RAM but this reproduces everytime, and I
>> swapped DIMMs around
>>
>> I haven't tested with upstream kernel/qemu yet, but I wondered if
>> anyone else has seen this.
>>
>> I noticed this because some work I was doing was segfaulting my qemu
>> and then my machine would die a few mins later.
>
> Of course now I read my fedora kernel emails and notice vhost_net does
> bad things,
>
> disabling vhost_net seems to make it work fine, hopefully the next
> Fedora kernel will bring the magic fixes.

We hope so too.  3.9.9-302.fc19 in koji should contain the fixes we
know about.  There's still another bug open that's tracking issues
with Windows guest VMs and vhost-net.

josh