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Con un dispositivo virtio-mem que registra un vmcore_cb y tiene algo de memoria l\u00f3gicamente desconectada dentro de un bloque de memoria de Linux agregado, puedo desencadenar f\u00e1cilmente un ERROR copiando el vmcore a trav\u00e9s de \"cp\": systemd[1]: Iniciando el servicio Kdump Vmcore Save. . kdump[420]: Kdump est\u00e1 utilizando el nivel de registro predeterminado (3). kdump[453]: guardar en /sysroot/var/crash/127.0.0.1-2021-11-11-14:59:22/ kdump[458]: guardar vmcore-dmesg.txt en /sysroot/var/crash/127.0 .0.1-2021-11-11-14:59:22/ kdump[465]: guardar vmcore-dmesg.txt completo kdump[467]: guardar vmcore ERROR: no se puede manejar el error de p\u00e1gina para la direcci\u00f3n: 00007f2374e01000 #PF: escritura del supervisor acceso en modo kernel #PF: error_code(0x0003) - violaci\u00f3n de permisos PGD 7a523067 P4D 7a523067 PUD 7a528067 PMD 7a525067 PTE 800000007048f867 Ups: 0003 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI CPU: 0 PID: 468 Comm: p No contaminado 5.15.0+ # 6 Nombre del hardware: PC est\u00e1ndar QEMU (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.14.0-27-g64f37cc530f1-prebuilt.qemu.org 01/04/2014 RIP: 0010:read_from_oldmem.part.0.cold+0x1d/ 0x86 C\u00f3digo: ff ff ff e8 05 ff fe ff e9 b9 e9 7f ff 48 89 de 48 c7 c7 38 3b 60 82 e8 f1 fe fe ff 83 fd 08 72 3c 49 8d 7d 08 4c 89 e9 89 e8 &lt;49&gt; c7 45 00 00 00 00 00 49 C7 44 05 F8 00 00 00 00 48 83 E7 F81 RSP: 0018: FFFFFC9000073BE08 EFLAGS: 00010212 RAX: 00000000000000001000 RBX: 000000002FD000 RCX: 00007F2374E RSI: 000000000000FFFFDFFF RDI: 00007F2374E01008 RBP: 000000000000001000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffc9000073bc50 R10: ffffc9000073bc48 R11: ffffffff829461a8 R12: 000000000000f000 R13: 00007f2374e01000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 88807bd421e8 FS: 00007f2374e12140(0000) GS:ffff88807f000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2 : 00007f2374e01000 CR3: 000000007a4aa000 CR4: 0000000000350eb0 Seguimiento de llamadas: read_vmcore+0x236/0x2c0 proc_reg_read+0x55/0xa0 vfs_read+0x95/0x190 do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 Entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae Algunas CPU x86-64 tienen una funci\u00f3n de CPU llamada \"Prevenci\u00f3n de acceso en modo supervisor (SMAP)\", que se utiliza para detectar accesos incorrectos desde el kernel a los b\u00faferes de usuario como este: SMAP desencadena una violaci\u00f3n de permisos en caso de acceso incorrecto. 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