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FS#44278 - [virtualbox] host crash with Intel Broadwell hardware

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Christian Hesse (eworm) - Friday, 20 March 2015, 14:59 GMT
Last edited by Sébastien Luttringer (seblu) - Sunday, 22 March 2015, 02:50 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Upstream Bugs
Status Closed
Assigned To Sébastien Luttringer (seblu)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
Starting a virtualbox guest on a system with Intel Broadwell hardware (and SMAP feature enabled) makes the host crash immediately. Details can be found in upstream bug tracker [0] and fix is available [1].
A workaround is to boot the host with kernel parameter 'nosmap', but that disables supervisor mode access prevention. The feature is enabled by default.

Additional info:
virtualbox 4.3.26-1

[0] https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/13961
[1] https://www.virtualbox.org/raw-attachment/ticket/13961/diff_smap_4
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Closed by  Sébastien Luttringer (seblu)
Sunday, 22 March 2015, 02:50 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  virtualbox-4.3.26-2
Comment by Vincent Voyer (vvo) - Friday, 20 March 2015, 22:42 GMT
Thanks for finding and solving this.
Comment by Sébastien Luttringer (seblu) - Saturday, 21 March 2015, 15:15 GMT
Is it ok with virtualbox-4.3.26-2?
Comment by Christian Hesse (eworm) - Saturday, 21 March 2015, 16:50 GMT
Looks good with virtualbox-host-dkms 4.3.26-2. Thanks!

Did not test virtualbox-host-modules as I am running git kernel atm. But given they are compiled from fixed source should be fine as well. ;)

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