Re: general protection fault in put_pid

Dmitry Vyukov
2018-12-23T07:38:00Z

On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 8:07 PM Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Dmitry,
>
> On 12/20/18 4:36 PM, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 10:04 AM Manfred Spraul
> > <manfred@colorfullife.com> wrote:
> >> Hello Dmitry,
> >>
> >> On 12/12/18 11:55 AM, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 9:23 PM syzbot
> >>> <syzbot+1145ec2e23165570c3ac@syzkaller.appspotmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> Hello,
> >>>>
> >>>> syzbot found the following crash on:
> >>>>
> >>>> HEAD commit: f5d582777bcb Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel...
> >>>> git tree: upstream
> >>>> console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=135bc547400000
> >>>> kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=c8970c89a0efbb23
> >>>> dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=1145ec2e23165570c3ac
> >>>> compiler: gcc (GCC) 8.0.1 20180413 (experimental)
> >>>> syz repro: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?x=16803afb400000
> >>> +Manfred, this looks similar to the other few crashes related to
> >>> semget$private(0x0, 0x4000, 0x3f) that you looked at.
> >> I found one unexpected (incorrect?) locking, see the attached patch.
> >>
> >> But I doubt that this is the root cause of the crashes.
> >
> > But why? These one-off sporadic crashes reported by syzbot looks
> > exactly like a subtle race and your patch touches sem_exit_ns involved
> > in all reports.
> > So if you don't spot anything else, I would say close these 3 reports
> > with this patch (I see you already included Reported-by tags which is
> > great!) and then wait for syzbot reaction. Since we got 3 of them, if
> > it's still not fixed I would expect that syzbot will be able to
> > retrigger this later again.
>
> As I wrote, unless semop() is used, sma->use_global_lock is always 9 and
> nothing can happen.
>
> Every single-operation semop() reduces use_global_lock by one, i.e a
> single semop call as done here cannot trigger the bug:
>
> https://syzkaller.appspot.com/text?tag=ReproSyz&x=16803afb400000

It contains "repeat":true,"procs":6, which means that it run 6
processes running this test in infinite loop. The last mark about
number of tests executed was:
2018/12/11 18:38:02 executed programs: 2955

> But, one more finding:
>
> https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=1145ec2e23165570c3ac
>
> https://syzkaller.appspot.com/text?tag=CrashLog&x=109ecf6e400000
>
> The log file contain 1080 lines like these:
>
> > semget$private(..., 0x4003, ...)
> >
> > semget$private(..., 0x4006, ...)
> >
> > semget$private(..., 0x4007, ...)
>
> It ends up as kmalloc(128*0x400x), i.e. slightly more than 2 MB, an
> allocation in the 4 MB kmalloc buffer:
>
> > [ 1201.210245] kmalloc-4194304 4698112KB 4698112KB
> >
> i.e.: 1147 4 MB kmalloc blocks --> are we leaking nearly 100% of the
> semaphore arrays??

/\/\/\/\/\/\

Ha, this is definitely not healthy.

> This one looks similar:
>
> https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=c92d3646e35bc5d1a909
>
> except that the array sizes are mixed, and thus there are kmalloc-1M and
> kmalloc-2M as well.
>
> (and I did not count the number of semget calls)
>
>
> The test apps use unshare(CLONE_NEWNS) and unshare(CLONE_NEWIPC), correct?
>
> I.e. no CLONE_NEWUSER.
>
> https://github.com/google/syzkaller/blob/master/executor/common_linux.h#L1523

CLONE_NEWUSER is used on some instances as well:
https://github.com/google/syzkaller/blob/master/executor/common_linux.h#L1765
This crash happened on 2 different instances and 1 of them uses
CLONE_NEWUSER and another does not.
If it's important because of CAP_ADMIN in IPC namespace, then all
instances should have it (instances that don't use NEWUSER are just
root).