Re: general protection fault in wb_workfn (2)

Dmitry Vyukov
2018-06-08T15:16:04Z

On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 4:45 PM, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 4:31 AM, Tetsuo Handa
> <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> wrote:
>> Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 3:45 PM, Tetsuo Handa
>>> <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> wrote:
>>> > Dmitry, can you assign VM resources for a git tree for this bug? This bug wants to fight
>>> > against https://github.com/google/syzkaller/blob/master/docs/syzbot.md#no-custom-patches ...
>>>
>>> Hi Tetsuo,
>>>
>>> Most of the reasons for not doing it still stand. A syzkaller instance
>>> will produce not just this bug, it will produce hundreds of different
>>> bugs. Then the question is: what to do with these bugs? Report all to
>>> mailing lists?
>>
>> Is it possible to add linux-next.git tree as a target for fuzzing? If yes,
>> we can try debug patches easily, in addition to find bugs earlier than now.
>
> syzbot tested linux-next and mmotm initially, but they were removed at
> the request of kernel developers. See:
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/syzkaller/0H0LHW_ayR8/dsK5qGB_AQAJ
> and:
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/syzkaller-bugs/FeAgni6Atlk/U0JGoR0AAwAJ
> Indeed, linux-next produces around 50 assorted one-off unexplainable
> bug reports.
>
>
>>> I think the solution here is just to run syzkaller instance locally.
>>> It's just a program anybody can run it on any kernel with any custom
>>> patches. Moreover for local instance it's also possible to limit set
>>> of tested syscalls to increase probability of hitting this bug and at
>>> the same time filter out most of other bugs.
>>
>> If this bug is reproducible with VM resources individual developer can afford...
>>
>> Since my Linux development environment is VMware guests on a Windows PC, I can't
>> run VM instance which needs KVM acceleration. Also, due to security policy, I can't
>> utilize external VM resources available on the Internet, as well as I can't use ssh
>> and git protocols. Speak of this bug, even with a lot of VM instances, syzbot can
>> reproduce this bug only once or twice per a day. Thus, the question for me boils
>> down to, whether I can reproduce this bug using one VMware guest instance with 4GB
>> of memory. Effectively, I don't have access to environments for running syzkaller
>> instance...
>
> Well, I don't know what to say, it does require some resources.
>
>>> Do we have any idea about the guilty subsystem? You mentioned
>>> bdi_unregister, why? What would be the set of syscalls to concentrate
>>> on?
>>> I will do a custom run when I get around to it, if nobody else beats me to it.
>>
>> Because bdi_unregister() does "bdi->dev = NULL;" which wb_workfn() is hitting
>> NULL pointer dereference.
>
> Right, wb_workfn is not a generic function, it's fs-specific function.
>
> Trying to reproduce this locally now.

No luck so far.

Trying to look from a different angle: is it possible that bdi->dev is
not set yet, rather then already reset?