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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	bfields@redhat.com, mszeredi@suse.cz,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	hch@lst.de, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: dcache: NULL ptr deref in dentry_kill
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 04:13:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141006031355.GA7996@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5431E203.9070501@oracle.com>

On Sun, Oct 05, 2014 at 08:27:47PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:

> [  434.580818] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000090
> [  434.582208] IP: do_raw_spin_trylock (./arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h:108 kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:143)
[snip]
spin_lock((void *)0x90)
> [  434.590025] ? _raw_spin_trylock (include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:89 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:135)
> [  434.590025] ? lockref_put_or_lock (lib/lockref.c:131)
> [  434.590025] dput (fs/dcache.c:513 fs/dcache.c:616)

ummm...  lockref_put_or_lock(&dentry->d_lockref) ending up with 0x90 passed
to lockref_put_or_lock()...  What offset does d_lockref have on your build?
On my config it's 0x80 (i.e. that would mean dput((void *)0x10)); could you
check it on yours?  Do you have CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC and CONFIG_LOCK_STAT?

> [  434.590025] __fput (fs/file_table.c:235)

... and here we have a struct file with ->f_path.dentry being a small positive
number.

Might make sense to slap BUG_ON((unsigned long)dentry < PAGE_SIZE); into
__fput() and try to reproduce.  And throw
	BUG_ON((unsigned long)file->f_path.dentry < PAGE_SIZE);
into fput(), while we are at it, to see if that's bogus ->f_path.dentry at
fput() time or if it's getting corrupted between task_work_add() and actual
execution of __fput().

And the value of offsetof(struct dentry, d_lock) on your build would be
interesting to see - that would tell us which value are we seeing passed
to dput().

  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-06  3:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-06  0:27 dcache: NULL ptr deref in dentry_kill Sasha Levin
2014-10-06  3:13 ` Al Viro [this message]
2014-10-06  3:42   ` Sasha Levin
2014-10-06  4:25     ` Al Viro
2014-10-06  4:39       ` Sasha Levin
2014-10-06  5:35         ` Al Viro

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