Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu segfauls with spiceport chardev and isa-serial

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

(cc'ing in Peter Crosthwaite and Michael Tokarev due to a serial fifo change
- see below!)

* Martin Kletzander (address@hidden) wrote:
> Hello,

Hi Martin,
   I don't know about your spice warnings that triggered this but looking
down the backtrace I can see something odd:

> current HEAD (2f61120c10da9128357510debc8e66880cd2bfdc) segfaults when
> I'm trying to do the following:
> 
> I add this to qemu's command-line:
> 
>  -chardev spiceport,id=charserial0,name=org.qemu.console.serial.0 \
>  -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0
> 
> and then use spicy to connect to that machine.  That spits out the
> following error:
> 
>  GSpice-Message: main channel: opened
>  port 0x7f74182366e0 org.qemu.console.serial.0: opened
>  
>  (spicy:32386): GSpice-WARNING **: incomplete link header (-104/16)
>  
>  (spicy:32386): GSpice-WARNING **: incomplete link header (-104/16)
>  GSpice-Message: main channel: closed
> 
> I can see that the console works when the window flashes, so there was
> some communication done (Im running the kernel inside with
> "console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8" as suggested here:
> 
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2014-January/015919.html
> 
> The full command-line with backtrace of all the threads (with
> abort()-ing thread being thread #1 follows.  Let me know if I can help
> anyhow.
> 
> Thanks,
> Martin
> 
> Command-line:
> 
> qemu-system-x86_64 -name rhel7 -S -machine \
> pc-i440fx-1.7,accel=kvm,usb=off,dump-guest-core=off -cpu SandyBridge \
> -m 4101 -realtime mlock=off -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -uuid \
> f49fa544-f21d-4267-8958-d82570644f39 -no-user-config -nodefaults \
> -chardev \
> socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/rhel7.monitor,server,nowait \
> -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc \
> -no-shutdown -boot strict=on -device \
> piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2 -device \
> virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6 -drive \
> if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,readonly=on,format=raw -device \
> ide-cd,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0 -drive \
> file=/home/nert/.config/libvirt/images/rhel7.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=qcow2
>  \
> -device \
> virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0,bootindex=1
>  \
> -netdev tap,fd=20,id=hostnet0,vhost=on,vhostfd=21 -device \
> virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:42:be:45,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3
>  \
> -chardev spiceport,id=charserial0,name=org.qemu.console.serial.0 \
> -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -device \
> usb-tablet,id=input0 -vnc 127.0.0.1:0 -spice \
> port=5901,tls-port=5902,addr=127.0.0.1,disable-ticketing,x509-dir=/etc/pki/libvirt-spice,seamless-migration=on
>  \
> -device \
> qxl-vga,id=video0,ram_size=67108864,vram_size=67108864,bus=pci.0,addr=0x2 \
> -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5
> 
> Backtrace:
> 

<snipped boring threads in poll>

> Thread 1 (Thread 0x7fee3da66980 (LWP 32022)):
> #0  0x00007fee344f1f4e in __GI_raise (address@hidden) at 
> ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:56
> #1  0x00007fee344f369f in __GI_abort () at abort.c:89
> #2  0x00007fee3de72baa in fifo8_pop (address@hidden) at util/fifo8.c:45

fifo8_pop is aborting because the fifo is empty:
    if (fifo->num == 0) {
        abort();
    }

which seems fair enough

> #3  0x00007fee3dc0c110 in serial_xmit (chan=<optimized out>, cond=<optimized 
> out>, opaque=0x7fee3fc286a0)
>     at hw/char/serial.c:228

            s->tsr = fifo8_is_full(&s->xmit_fifo) ?
                        0 : fifo8_pop(&s->xmit_fifo);

Hmm, now I don't know anything about the tsr stuff; but that calls
fifo8_pop whenever the fifo isn't *full* - i.e. it still gets called if empty.

I think the change here comes from Peter's 8e8638fa87ff04 'char/serial: Use 
generic Fifo8'
changeset from June which did:

-            s->tsr = fifo_get(s,XMIT_FIFO);
-            if (!s->xmit_fifo.count) {
+            s->tsr = fifo8_is_full(&s->xmit_fifo) ?
+                        0 : fifo8_pop(&s->xmit_fifo);
+            if (!s->xmit_fifo.num) {

which makes me think (without having looked at the old data structure
properly) if that should be   fifo8_is_empty ?
(The old serial fifo_get routine returned 0 if empty rather than aborting).

Dave

> #4  0x00007fee3d1a8957 in g_main_dispatch (context=0x7fee3fa49470)
>     at 
> /var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/glib-2.38.2/work/glib-2.38.2/glib/gmain.c:3066
> #5  g_main_context_dispatch (address@hidden)
>     at 
> /var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/glib-2.38.2/work/glib-2.38.2/glib/gmain.c:3642
> #6  0x00007fee3dccdde7 in glib_pollfds_poll () at main-loop.c:189
> #7  os_host_main_loop_wait (timeout=<optimized out>) at main-loop.c:234
> #8  main_loop_wait (nonblocking=<optimized out>) at main-loop.c:483
> #9  0x00007fee3db61501 in main_loop () at vl.c:2018
> #10 main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>, envp=<optimized out>) 
> at vl.c:4410


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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / address@hidden / Manchester, UK