Re: PROBLEM: syzkaller found / pool corruption-overwrite / page in user-area or NULL

James Bottomley
2019-01-10T19:58:59Z

On Thu, 2019-01-10 at 19:12 +0000, Esme wrote:
> Sorry for the resend some mail servers rejected the mime type.
>
> Hi, I've been getting more into Kernel stuff lately and forged ahead
> with some syzkaller bug finding. I played with reducing it further
> as you can see from the attached c code but am moving on and hope to
> get better about this process moving forward as I'm still building
> out my test systems/debugging tools.
>
> Attached is the report and C repro that still triggers on a fresh git
> pull as of a few minutes ago, if you need anything else please let me
> know.
> Esme
>
> Linux syzkaller 5.0.0-rc1+ #5 SMP Tue Jan 8 20:39:33 EST 2019 x86_64
> GNU/Linux

I'm not sure I'm reading this right, but it seems that a simple
allocation inside block/scsi_ioctl.h

buffer = kzalloc(bytes, q->bounce_gfp | GFP_USER| __GFP_NOWARN);

(where bytes is < 4k) caused a slub padding check failure on free.
>From the internal details, the freeing entity seems to be KASAN as part
of its quarantine reduction (albeit triggered by this kzalloc). I'm
not remotely familiar with what KASAN is doing, but it seems the memory
corruption problem is somewhere within the KASAN tracking?

I added linux-mm in case they can confirm this diagnosis or give me a
pointer to what might be wrong in scsi.

James