Bug 32858

Summary:	UPSTREAM VirtualBox bug in vboxdrv module for kernel 6.6 host create warning in journal
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Morgan Leijström <fri>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Kernel and Drivers maintainers <kernel>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	ghibomgx, kernel
Version:	9	Keywords:	IN_ERRATA9, UPSTREAM
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=110706
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	virtualbox-7.0.14-1.mga9.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	Part of journal, when launching MSW7 guest using VB7.0.14 on kernel-dektop-6.6.16-4 with dkms built kmod.

Description Morgan Leijström 2024-02-16 20:13:12 CET

Created attachment 14388 [details]
Part of journal, when launching MSW7 guest using VB7.0.14 on kernel-dektop-6.6.16-4 with dkms built kmod.

( Created from Bug 31695 Comment 64 + )

This is upstream, we can not fix this - just tracking it here for reference.

Valid for VirtualBox versions 7.0.12, 7.0.14, and kernel 6.6

At first launch of guest system there comes a warning in journal, i.e

kernel: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 168789 at /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/7.0.14-1.mga9/build/vboxdrv/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c:564 rtR0MemObjLinuxApplyPageRange+0x67/0xa0 [vboxdrv]



__Upstream reports__

https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=110706

https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/21964

https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/21952

Comment 1 Morgan Leijström 2024-02-16 20:26:37 CET

The guest seem to work fine for my usage, except i feel there is a bit delay at start.

What problems to look out for?

If problems, i think users could try kernel 6.5
(knowing it lack latest security updates.)

Morgan Leijström 2024-02-16 20:34:29 CET

Whiteboard: (none) => MGA9TOO

Comment 2 Lewis Smith 2024-02-16 21:30:07 CET

The other URLs say no impact on usage, so this is one of those cosmetic errors.

I do not see Cauldron versions, so have put in latest M9 VB version;
Assigning to kernel/drivers who normally field VB problems, even though this is upstream. But it is related to a kernel update.

Source RPM: (none) => virtualbox-7.0.14-1.mga9.src.rpm
Assignee: bugsquad => kernel

Comment 3 Morgan Leijström 2024-02-17 12:38:55 CET

https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_9_Errata#Virtualization_software
Massaged into other text about VirtualBox which in total got shorter.

Keywords: (none) => IN_ERRATA9

Comment 4 Giuseppe Ghibò 2024-02-17 15:27:24 CET

There is a version with a patch for this, here:

https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/ghibo/mageia9-bonus/mageia-9-x86_64/07028663-virtualbox/

It should solve the problems above.

CC: (none) => ghibomgx

Comment 5 Giuseppe Ghibò 2024-02-17 15:28:24 CET

Also with 6.6.17-1.mga9.

Comment 6 Morgan Leijström 2024-02-17 17:56:47 CET

I verified i see it too with kernel-desktop-6.6.17-1.mga9.

Then i updated VirtualBox according to  Comment 4:
virtualbox-7.0.14-1.1.mga9.x86_64
dkms-virtualbox-7.0.14-1.1.mga9.x86_64

Reboot, test: i do not see the warning issue: OK.


As the problem dos not seem to cause any harm,
i think we need not ship an update for this only.

Comment 7 Giuseppe Ghibò 2024-03-04 20:02:50 CET

A patch for is actually included in cauldron's virtualbox (but not in mga9, as of comment #6).

Morgan Leijström 2024-03-04 21:09:23 CET

Whiteboard: MGA9TOO => (none)
Version: Cauldron => 9