Arm + KASAN + syzbot

[Russell King - ARM Linux admin]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 09:24:06AM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 10:24 PM Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov at google.com> wrote:
> 
> > I've set up an arm32 instance (w/o KASAN for now), but kernel fails during boot:
> > https://groups.google.com/g/syzkaller-bugs/c/omh0Em-CPq0
> > So far arm32 testing does not progress beyond attempts to boot.
> 
> It is booting all right it seems.
> 
> Today it looks like Hillf Danton found the problem: if I understand correctly
> the code is executing arm32-on-arm64 (virtualized QEMU for ARM32
> on ARM64?) and that was not working with the vexpress QEMU model
> because not properly tested.
> 
> I don't know if I understand the problem right though :/

There is an issue with ARMv7 and the decompressor currently - see the
patch from Ard - it's 9052/1 in the patch system.

That's already known to stuff up my 32-bit ARM VMs under KVM - maybe
other QEMU models are also affected by it.

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