[Nix-dev] VirtualBox causes (host) kernel error "general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP"

[Bjørn Forsman]

Hi all,

All my VirtualBox machines now consistently cause a kernel stack trace
(in my physical NixOS machine) when trying to start them. Rebooting
and nix-channel --update && nixos-rebuild switch doesn't change it.
Does anyone else have that? New machines also cause crash when
booting.

Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.113874] general
protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.113892] CPU 1
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.113898] Modules linked
in: ip6table_filter ip6_tables ebtable_nat ebtables ipt_MASQUERADE
iptable_nat nf_nat nf_c
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: d_timer snd soundcore evdev
loop mac_hid ipv6 tun kvm_intel kvm vboxnetflt(O) vboxnetadp(O)
vboxdrv(O) autofs4 scsi_wait_scan sd_mod crc_t10dif ehci_hcd unix
dm_mod ext4 crc16 jbd2 ext3 jbd ext2 mbcache usb_storage usb_libusual
us
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.114258]
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.114263] Pid: 2448,
comm: EMT Tainted: G         C O 3.4.56 #1-NixOS MotherBoard By ZOTAC
MotherBoard Z77ITX-A-E/Z77ITX-A-E
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.114290] RIP:
0010:[phys_startup_64+0x55eca42/0x80000000]
[phys_startup_64+0x55eca42/0x80000000] 0xffffc900065eca41
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.114290] RIP:
0010:[<ffffc900065eca42>]  [<ffffc900065eca42>] 0xffffc900065eca41
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.114310] RSP:
0018:ffff8803764a3d00  EFLAGS: 00010006
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.114322] RAX:
0000000000000274 RBX: ffffc90006651340 RCX: 0000000000000000
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.114337] RDX:
ffffc90006651340 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.114352] RBP:
ffff8803764a3d58 R08: 000000000001ae80 R09: ffffc90006651000
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.114367] R10:
0000000000040000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000206
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.114382] R13:
0000000000000000 R14: ffff880376656950 R15: 0000000000000030
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.114397] FS:
00007fc759174700(0000) GS:ffff88041f280000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.114414] CS:  0010 DS:
0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.114426] CR2:
00007fc778a87ab0 CR3: 00000003b5d89000 CR4: 00000000001427f0
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.114441] DR0:
0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.114456] DR3:
0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.114471] Process EMT
(pid: 2448, threadinfo ffff8803764a2000, task ffff880408d5f5f0)
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.114487] Stack:
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.114492]
ffffc900065ec7b2 0000000000000010 ffffffffa07a73d1 ffff8803764a3de8
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.114512]
ffffffff8111e977 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 ffff880375c3bb20
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.114531]
ffff880376656950 ffff880377c4f810 ffffffffa03ead20 ffff8803764a3d98
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.114550] Call Trace:
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.114558]
[handle_pte_fault+0xf7/0xa80] ? handle_pte_fault+0xf7/0xa80
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.114558]
[<ffffffff8111e977>] ? handle_pte_fault+0xf7/0xa80
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.114578]
[vboxdrv:supdrvIOCtl+0x1594/0x2a40] ? supdrvIOCtl+0x1594/0x2a40
[vboxdrv]
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.114578]
[<ffffffffa023ccc4>] ? supdrvIOCtl+0x1594/0x2a40 [vboxdrv]
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.114596]
[vboxdrv:rtR0MemAllocEx+0x179/0x230] ? rtR0MemAllocEx+0x179/0x230
[vboxdrv]
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.114596]
[<ffffffffa02458f9>] ? rtR0MemAllocEx+0x179/0x230 [vboxdrv]
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.114614]
[vboxdrv:VBoxDrvLinuxIOCtl_4_2_16+0x137/0x200] ?
VBoxDrvLinuxIOCtl_4_2_16+0x137/0x200 [vboxdrv]
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.114614]
[<ffffffffa0237417>] ? VBoxDrvLinuxIOCtl_4_2_16+0x137/0x200 [vboxdrv]
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.114631]
[set_next_entity+0x3f/0x80] ? set_next_entity+0x3f/0x80
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.114631]
[<ffffffff81080c1f>] ? set_next_entity+0x3f/0x80
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.114644]
[do_vfs_ioctl+0x98/0x550] ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x98/0x550
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.114644]
[<ffffffff811619a8>] ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x98/0x550
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.114658]
[__schedule+0x2dd/0x750] ? __schedule+0x2dd/0x750
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.114658]
[<ffffffff813d45cd>] ? __schedule+0x2dd/0x750
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.114671]
[sys_ioctl+0x91/0xa0] ? sys_ioctl+0x91/0xa0
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.114671]
[<ffffffff81161ef1>] ? sys_ioctl+0x91/0xa0
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.114694]
[system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.114694]
[<ffffffff813d66a9>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.114708] Code: 00 0f 20
d8 4a 89 84 02 c0 06 00 00 0f 20 e0 4a 89 84 02 c8 06 00 00 48 83 e0
70 42 8b 8c 02 b8 0a 00 00 23 4a 20 09 c8 0b 42 24 <0f> 22 e0 42 8b 84
02 a0 0a 00 00 83 e0 04 0d 3b 00 00 80 0f 22
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.114845] RIP
[phys_startup_64+0x55eca42/0x80000000] 0xffffc900065eca41
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.114845] RIP
[<ffffc900065eca42>] 0xffffc900065eca41
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.116131]  RSP <ffff8803764a3d00>
Aug 14 23:09:55 mini-nixos kernel[1643]: [   22.173742] ---[ end trace
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