Re: [Xen-devel] Doamin crash when trying to install disk encryption (PointSec) on Windows HVM

[Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 14:23 +0100 on 22 Apr (1240410216), Tom Rotenberg wrote:
> so what does it mean? could it be that we have a bug in the real mode
> emulation, which causes the segment state to be invalid (maybe it's
> because of a bug in the patch that Keir made for me, which emulated
> the LLDT, and the LTR instructions)?

It means probably that Xen doesn't support the guest using virtual 8086
mode.  Adding support probably wouldn't be too hard, by treating virtual
8086 mode as a special case of real mode, but I don't have time to look
at it right now.

Tim.

> Keir suggested to trace back where the problem (segment state)
> occured, and from there to try and find the bug which caused it. Do u
> have any better suggestion for solving this?
> 
> Tom
> 
> 2009/4/22 Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx<mailto:Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>>
> At 13:39 +0100 on 22 Apr (1240407546), Tom Rotenberg wrote:
> > Keir,
> >
> > I have tried your latest patch, and it looks like now it passes the 
> > emulation problem. However,  now the domain crashes with the following 
> > error:
> >
> > (XEN) HVM1: Booting from 0000:7c00
> > (XEN) Failed vm entry (exit reason 0x80000021) caused by invalid guest 
> > state (0).
> > (XEN) ************* VMCS Area **************
> > (XEN) *** Guest State ***
> > (XEN) CR0: actual=0x0000000080010039, shadow=0x0000000080000019, 
> > gh_mask=ffffffffffffffff
> > (XEN) CR4: actual=0x0000000000002060, shadow=0x0000000000000000, 
> > gh_mask=ffffffffffffffff
> > (XEN) CR3: actual=0x000000000a213a20, target_count=0
> > (XEN)      target0=0000000000000000, target1=0000000000000000
> > (XEN)      target2=0000000000000000, target3=0000000000000000
> > (XEN) RSP = 0x0000000000000080 (0x0000000000000080)  RIP = 
> > 0x000000000000002a (0x000000000000002a)
> > (XEN) RFLAGS=0x0000000000023202 (0x0000000000023202)  DR7 = 
> > 0x0000000000000400
> 
> Looks like we're trying to VMENTER in virtual 8086 mode but without
> tidying up the segment state.  That could either be the guest entering
> virtual 8086 mode itself or Xen entering vitrual 8086 mode to emulate
> real mode, but Xen is always careful to make the segment state agree
> with Intel's rather strict requrements when it does that.
> 
> Tim.
> 
> 
> > (XEN) Sysenter RSP=0000000000000000 CS:RIP=0000:0000000000000000
> > (XEN) CS: sel=0x0060, attr=0x0c09b, limit=0xffffffff, 
> > base=0x0000000000200000
> > (XEN) DS: sel=0x0068, attr=0x0c093, limit=0xffffffff, 
> > base=0x0000000000200000
> > (XEN) SS: sel=0x0070, attr=0x0c093, limit=0xfc000fff, 
> > base=0x000000000020ba62
> > (XEN) ES: sel=0x0068, attr=0x0c093, limit=0xffffffff, 
> > base=0x0000000000200000
> > (XEN) FS: sel=0x0068, attr=0x0c093, limit=0xffffffff, 
> > base=0x0000000000200000
> > (XEN) GS: sel=0x0068, attr=0x0c093, limit=0xffffffff, 
> > base=0x0000000000200000
> > (XEN) GDTR:                           limit=0x00001dd8, 
> > base=0x0000000000200000
> > (XEN) LDTR: sel=0x0000, attr=0x1c000, limit=0xffffffff, 
> > base=0x0000000000000000
> > (XEN) IDTR:                           limit=0x00000188, 
> > base=0x0000000000201df0
> > (XEN) TR: sel=0x0058, attr=0x0008b, limit=0x0000ffff, 
> > base=0x0000000000201ff2
> > (XEN) Guest PAT = 0x0000000000000000
> > (XEN) TSC Offset = ffffffe4920110b7
> > (XEN) DebugCtl=0000000000000000 DebugExceptions=0000000000000000
> > (XEN) Interruptibility=0001 ActivityState=0000
> > (XEN) *** Host State ***
> > (XEN) RSP = 0xffff83007e4f7fa0  RIP = 0xffff828c8019aa20
> > (XEN) CS=e008 DS=0000 ES=0000 FS=0000 GS=0000 SS=0000 TR=e040
> > (XEN) FSBase=0000000000000000 GSBase=0000000000000000 
> > TRBase=ffff828c802a8b00
> > (XEN) GDTBase=ffff83007e9a3000 IDTBase=ffff83007e62e010
> > (XEN) CR0=0000000080050033 CR3=000000007cfdc000 CR4=00000000000026f0
> > (XEN) Sysenter RSP=ffff83007e4f7fd0 CS:RIP=e008:ffff828c801c7290
> > (XEN) Host PAT = 0x0000000000000000
> > (XEN) *** Control State ***
> > (XEN) PinBased=0000003f CPUBased=b6a1e7fe SecondaryExec=00000041
> > (XEN) EntryControls=000011ff ExitControls=0003efff
> > (XEN) ExceptionBitmap=00044080
> > (XEN) VMEntry: intr_info=80000b0b errcode=00001eac ilen=00000000
> > (XEN) VMExit: intr_info=00000000 errcode=00008000 ilen=00000000
> > (XEN)         reason=80000021 qualification=00000000
> > (XEN) IDTVectoring: info=00000000 errcode=00000000
> > (XEN) TPR Threshold = 0x00
> > (XEN) EPT pointer = 0x0000000000000000
> > (XEN) Virtual processor ID = 0x0000
> > (XEN) **************************************
> > (XEN) domain_crash called from vmx.c:2218
> > (XEN) Domain 1 (vcpu#0) crashed on cpu#1:
> > (XEN) ----[ Xen-3.4.0-rc3-pre  x86_64  debug=n  Not tainted ]----
> > (XEN) CPU:    1
> > (XEN) RIP:    0060:[<000000000000002a>]
> > (XEN) RFLAGS: 0000000000023202   CONTEXT: hvm guest
> > (XEN) rax: 0000000000000007   rbx: 0000000000001490   rcx: 0000000000000000
> > (XEN) rdx: 0000000000001da8   rsi: 0000000000000000   rdi: 0000000000000000
> > (XEN) rbp: 0000000000008ebf   rsp: 0000000000000080   r8:  0000000000000000
> > (XEN) r9:  0000000000000000   r10: 0000000000000000   r11: 0000000000000000
> > (XEN) r12: 0000000000000000   r13: 0000000000000000   r14: 0000000000000000
> > (XEN) r15: 0000000000000000   cr0: 0000000080000019   cr4: 0000000000000000
> > (XEN) cr3: 0000000001443000   cr2: 0000000000000000
> > (XEN) ds: 0068   es: 0068   fs: 0068   gs: 0068   ss: 0070   cs: 0060
> >
> > Could it be, that the real mode emulation code has a bug? What does this 
> > error means?
> >
> > Tom
> >
> > 2009/4/22 Keir Fraser 
> > <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx><mailto:keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>>
> > On 22/04/2009 12:18, "Tom Rotenberg" 
> > <tom.rotenberg@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:tom.rotenberg@xxxxxxxxx><mailto:tom.rotenberg@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:tom.rotenberg@xxxxxxxxx>>>
> >  wrote:
> >
> > > Keir,
> > >
> > > I have applied your patch, and it seemed to work. However, the domain 
> > > still
> > > crashes, and now it looks like it's because of the 'LTR' instruction.
> >
> > Try the attached patch. It replaces the one I sent last time, and emulates
> > both LLDT and LTR.
> >
> >  -- Keir
> >
> 
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> --
> Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx<mailto:Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>>
> Principal Software Engineer, Citrix Systems (R&D) Ltd.
> [Company #02300071, SL9 0DZ, UK.]

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Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Principal Software Engineer, Citrix Systems (R&D) Ltd.
[Company #02300071, SL9 0DZ, UK.]

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