[fedora-virt] libvirtd crashes host when autostarting

[Adam Huffman]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Dale Bewley <dlbewley at lib.ucdavis.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 10:39 -0400, Rich Mahn wrote:
>> > On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 09:45 -0400, Rich Mahn wrote:
>> > > Summary:
>> > >    My host crashes when I use the autostart function in
>> > > libvirtd.
>> > >
>> > > This command sequence works fine:
>> > >
>> > > service libvirtd stop
>> > > virsh autostart mydomain --disable
>> > > service lib virtd start
>> > > virsh start mydomain
>> > >
>> > > This command sequence will crash the host:
>> > >
>> > > service libvirtd stop
>> > > virsh autostart mydomain
>> > > service libvirtd start
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > I can't find any error messages related to this.  The host system
>> > > freezes, the keyboard starts blinking the caps-lock and scroll-lock,
>> > > and as best I can tell, the kernel has stopped running.
>>
>> > Ouch, that's really bad. This is a 2.6.30 kernel, right? Is it still
>> > reproducible with an older 2.6.29 kernel or a 2.6.31 kernel from
>> > rawhide?
>>
>> okay, it works correctly on 2.6.29.  I'm trying to figure out how to
>> install 2.6.31 from rawhide without having dozens/hundreds of other
>> packages modified as well.  Is there some option to 'yum' that will do
>> what I need?
>
> I am seeing a kernel oops and panic on a host running
> 2.6.31.6-166.fc12.x86_64 (and also at least 2.6.31.6-145) when I
> autostart a f12-x86_64 qemu-kvm guest.
>
> If I flag a guest as autoboot and reboot the host then the host starts,
> the guest starts, and some seconds later (presumably when the guest is
> fully up or just before) the host OOPs and hangs. The full error log is
> attached, it begins as:
>
> BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000000200200
> IP: [<ffffffff8139aad7>] destroy_conntrack+0x82/0x11f
> PGD 209d9d067 PUD 214dfa067 PMD 0
> Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
> last sysfs
> file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:09.0/0000:01:00.0/0000:02:02.0/0000:05:00.0/0000:06:00.0/irq
> CPU 0
> Modules linked in: tun bridge stp llc xt_physdev ipt_LOG xt_limit
> xt_comment xt_multiport ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6 ip6table_filter
> ip6_tables ipv6 dm_multipath kvm_amd kvm bnx2 amd64_edac_mod shpchp
> edac_core i2c_piix4 serio_raw dcdbas raid1 raid10 mptsas mptscsih
> mptbase sata_svw scsi_transport_sas radeon ttm drm_kms_helper drm
> i2c_algo_bit i2c_core [last unloaded: freq_table]
> Pid: 1962, comm: qemu-kvm Not tainted 2.6.31.6-166.fc12.x86_64 #1
> PowerEdge 2970
> RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8139aad7>]  [<ffffffff8139aad7>] destroy_conntrack
> +0x82/0x11f
>
> I'm running on a quad core AMD with:
>
> qemu-kvm-0.11.0-12.fc12.x86_64
> kernel-2.6.31.6-166.fc12.x86_64
> libvirt-0.7.1-15.fc12.x86_64
>
> What can I do to help further diagnose this problem?
>
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For what it's worth I've been seeing very similar crashes.  I reported it as:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=545851

and on the KVM list.  They thought it was a fault in the networking
stack, so people are now looking into it there.

On my hardware, if I disable VT-d in the BIOS, the crashes don't happen.

Adam