Re: general protection fault in relay_open_buf

Dmitry Vyukov
2019-01-31T11:28:42Z

On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 12:22 PM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 12:16:42PM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 11:51 AM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 10:54:18PM +1300, Kees Cook wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 7:53 AM syzbot
> > > > <syzbot+16c3a70e1e9b29346c43@syzkaller.appspotmail.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > >
> > > > > syzbot found the following crash on:
> > > > >
> > > > > HEAD commit: 02495e76ded5 Add linux-next specific files for 20190130
> > > > > git tree: linux-next
> > > > > console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=12cf10df400000
> > > > > kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=a2b2e9c0bc43c14d
> > > > > dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=16c3a70e1e9b29346c43
> > > > > compiler: gcc (GCC) 9.0.0 20181231 (experimental)
> > > > > syz repro: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?x=13266698c00000
> > > > > C reproducer: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.c?x=1715bb64c00000
> > > > >
> > > > > IMPORTANT: if you fix the bug, please add the following tag to the commit:
> > > > > Reported-by: syzbot+16c3a70e1e9b29346c43@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> > > > >
> > > > > kasan: CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE enabled
> > > > > kasan: GPF could be caused by NULL-ptr deref or user memory access
> > > > > general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
> > > > > CPU: 0 PID: 8092 Comm: syz-executor405 Not tainted 5.0.0-rc4-next-20190130
> > > > > #22
> > > > > Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS
> > > > > Google 01/01/2011
> > > > > RIP: 0010:relay_set_buf_dentry kernel/relay.c:412 [inline]
> > > >
> > > > static inline void relay_set_buf_dentry(struct rchan_buf *buf,
> > > > struct dentry *dentry)
> > > > {
> > > > buf->dentry = dentry;
> > > > d_inode(buf->dentry)->i_size = buf->early_bytes; <--
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > > Doing a bisect landed on this:
> > > >
> > > > ff9fb72bc07705c00795ca48631f7fffe24d2c6b ("debugfs: return error
> > > > values, not NULL")
> > > >
> > > > If I revert this patch, I can't reproduce any more. I don't see a
> > > > relationship, though...
> > > >
> > > > My crash appears as:
> > > > [ 121.934378] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
> > > > at 0000000000000047
> > > > [ 121.937187] #PF error: [normal kernel read fault]
> > > > [ 121.938824] PGD 800000041f699067 P4D 800000041f699067 PUD 42d08f067 PMD 0
> > > > [ 121.941166] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
> > > > [ 121.942381] CPU: 2 PID: 3134 Comm: relay Not tainted
> > > > 5.0.0-rc4-next-20190130 #1020
> > > > [ 121.943873] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996),
> > > > BIOS 1.10.2-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014
> > > > [ 121.945395] RIP: 0010:relay_open_buf.part.10+0x2b8/0x330
> > > > ...
> > > > [ 121.960021] Call Trace:
> > > > [ 121.960453] relay_open+0x18e/0x2c0
> > > > [ 121.961070] __blk_trace_setup+0x1af/0x350
> > > > [ 121.961777] blk_trace_ioctl+0x93/0x100
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > $ ./scripts/faddr2line vmlinux relay_open_buf.part.10+0x2b8/0x330
> > > > relay_open_buf.part.10+0x2b8/0x330:
> > > > relay_set_buf_dentry at kernel/relay.c:412
> > > > (inlined by) relay_open_buf at kernel/relay.c:458
> > > >
> > > > So it's the same location, but not sure about 0x47 offset. d_inode is
> > > > 0x58 from dentry. And i_size is 0x50 from inode. If this isn't NULL,
> > > > but rather an ERR_PTR, the errno is either:
> > > >
> > > > EBADF 9 Bad file descriptor
> > > > EEXIST 17 File exists
> > > >
> > > > Neither are used in the debugfs patch, but debugfs is clearly used in
> > > > do_blk_trace_setup():
> > > >
> > > > if (!blk_debugfs_root)
> > > > return -ENOENT;
> > > > ...
> > > > dir = debugfs_lookup(buts->name, blk_debugfs_root);
> > > > if (!dir)
> > > > bt->dir = dir = debugfs_create_dir(buts->name,
> > > > blk_debugfs_root);
> > > > if (!dir)
> > > > goto err;
> > > > ...
> > > > bt->rchan = relay_open("trace", dir, buts->buf_size,
> > > > buts->buf_nr, &blk_relay_callbacks, bt);
> > > >
> > > > Which is confirmed by the next line in my traceback:
> > > >
> > > > $ ./scripts/faddr2line vmlinux __blk_trace_setup+0x1af/0x350
> > > > __blk_trace_setup+0x1af/0x350:
> > > > do_blk_trace_setup at kernel/trace/blktrace.c:534
> > > > (inlined by) __blk_trace_setup at kernel/trace/blktrace.c:577
> > >
> > > Can you test the patch below?
> >
> >
> > This can be done as self-service by saying:
> >
> > #syz test: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
> > master
> >
> > (is it the right tree/base commit for your change? a patch can
> > generally be applied only to the tree/base commit that you used to
> > obtain the diff)
>
> It was close, wrong tree, try this:
>
> #syz test: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core.git driver-core-linus
>
> And let's see if it works :)

Just in case, you can actually post patches inline, it should work.
It's just my client is incapable of preserving whitespaces, so I have
to re-attach them (they are also applied with --ignore-whitespace, but
just to be safe).