[Xen-devel] Xen PANIC in MCE interrupt context : can global variable dom0 be NULL ?

[Ashwin Pankaj <ashwin.pankaj@xxxxxxx>]

Hi ,


I am using Xen 3.4.1 - I see that sometimes when an MCE error occurs Xen 
panics due to a page fault with the following stack trace-
http://pastebin.com/f30f67342

 After some digging, probable culprit seems to be smp_cmci_interrupt

> if (bs.errcnt && mctc != NULL) {
>         if (guest_enabled_event(dom0->vcpu[0], 
> <------------------------------------ here
>                      VIRQ_MCA)) {
>             mctelem_commit(mctc);
>             printk(KERN_DEBUG "CMCI: send CMCI to DOM0 through virq\n");
>             send_guest_global_virq(dom0, VIRQ_MCA);
>         } else {
>             x86_mcinfo_dump(mctelem_dataptr(mctc));
>             mctelem_dismiss(mctc);
>        }
Looks like dom0 is NULL here ( vcpu[0] offset is 0x468). Is this possible?

Other functions like mce_softirq() perform a NULL check on dom0 before 
accessing it's members ....
> /* Step2: Send Log to DOM0 through vIRQ */
>         if (dom0 && guest_enabled_event(dom0->vcpu[0], VIRQ_MCA)) {
>             printk(KERN_DEBUG "MCE: send MCE# to DOM0 through virq\n");
>             send_guest_global_virq(dom0, VIRQ_MCA);
>         }
Also note that, this system printed the MCE warning message( "(XEN) MCE: 
The hardware reports a non fatal, correctable incident occured on CPU 0" 
) twice before panicing.
So this code worked properly and entered x86_mcinfo_dump() atleast twice 
before panic.
- Regards,
Ashwin



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