Re: kernel panic: n_tty: init_tty

Eric Biggers
2017-11-05T22:04:44Z

On Sun, Nov 05, 2017 at 11:34:34AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 05, 2017 at 01:05:02AM -0800, syzbot wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > syzkaller hit the following crash on
> > b5ac3beb5a9f0ef0ea64cd85faf94c0dc4de0e42
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/master
> > compiler: gcc (GCC) 7.1.1 20170620
> > .config is attached
> > Raw console output is attached.
>
> And again, this would be nicer to provide something that I could
> reproduce this with...
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>

I just saw the same crash running syzkaller. It was preceded by a fault
injection in tty_ldisc_get() here:

ld = kmalloc(sizeof(struct tty_ldisc), GFP_KERNEL);
if (ld == NULL) {
put_ldops(ldops);
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
}

So then it panics at:

if (IS_ERR(ld))
panic("n_tty: init_tty");

It seems that syzkaller needs to do a better job reproducing and reporting bugs
that are only reproducible with fault injection. But either way, this is a bug;
panic() is not an acceptable way of handling kmalloc failure.

Eric