tests/functional/test_aarch64_rme_virt: fix sporadic failure

This test was randomly failing on our CI, and on dev machines,
especially with QEMU debug builds.

>From the information collected, it's related to an implementation choice
in edk2 QEMU virt support. The workaround is to disable KASLR, to avoid
accessing protected memory.
Note: this is *not* needed for the similar test_aarch64_rme_sbsaref.

More information is available on the associated GitLab issue.

Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2823
Signed-off-by: Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Message-ID: <20250328183816.2687925-1-pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Message-ID: <20250403203241.46692-2-philmd@linaro.org>

diff --git a/tests/functional/test_aarch64_rme_virt.py b/tests/functional/test_aarch64_rme_virt.py
index f4ad4d33d58d68e1469ff9dc7ca3b180bc2a21fb..a1abf584f0e394f9d10de1c4d9cc90b15b195ee7 100755 (executable)
--- a/tests/functional/test_aarch64_rme_virt.py
+++ b/tests/functional/test_aarch64_rme_virt.py
@@ -87,7 +87,9 @@ class Aarch64RMEVirtMachine(QemuSystemTest):
         self.vm.add_args('-fsdev', f'local,security_model=none,path={rme_stack},id=shr0')
         self.vm.add_args('-device', 'virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0')
         self.vm.add_args('-netdev', 'user,id=net0')
-        self.vm.add_args('-append', 'root=/dev/vda')
+        # We need to add nokaslr to avoid triggering this sporadic bug:
+        # https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2823
+        self.vm.add_args('-append', 'root=/dev/vda nokaslr')
 
         self.vm.launch()
         # Wait for host VM boot to complete.