Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in mem_serial_out

Greg KH
2019-12-13T09:34:02Z

On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 10:02:33AM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 11:57 AM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 06, 2019 at 10:25:08PM -0800, syzbot wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > syzbot found the following crash on:
> > >
> > > HEAD commit: 7ada90eb Merge tag 'drm-next-2019-12-06' of git://anongit...
> > > git tree: upstream
> > > console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=123ec282e00000
> > > kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=f07a23020fd7d21a
> > > dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=f4f1e871965064ae689e
> > > compiler: gcc (GCC) 9.0.0 20181231 (experimental)
> > > syz repro: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?x=17ab090ee00000
> > > C reproducer: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.c?x=17f127f2e00000
> > >
> > > IMPORTANT: if you fix the bug, please add the following tag to the commit:
> > > Reported-by: syzbot+f4f1e871965064ae689e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> > >
> > > BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000002
> > > #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
> > > #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
> > > PGD 9764a067 P4D 9764a067 PUD 9f995067 PMD 0
> > > Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
> > > CPU: 0 PID: 9687 Comm: syz-executor433 Not tainted 5.4.0-syzkaller #0
> > > Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS
> > > Google 01/01/2011
> > > RIP: 0010:writeb arch/x86/include/asm/io.h:65 [inline]
> > > RIP: 0010:mem_serial_out+0x70/0x90 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:408
> > > Code: e9 00 00 00 49 8d 7c 24 40 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 fa 48
> > > c1 ea 03 d3 e3 80 3c 02 00 75 19 48 63 db 49 03 5c 24 40 <44> 88 2b 5b 41 5c
> > > 41 5d 5d c3 e8 81 ed cf fd eb c0 e8 da ed cf fd
> > > RSP: 0018:ffffc90001de78e8 EFLAGS: 00010202
> > > RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000002 RCX: 0000000000000000
> > > RDX: 1ffffffff181f40e RSI: ffffffff83e28776 RDI: ffffffff8c0fa070
> > > RBP: ffffc90001de7900 R08: ffff8880919dc340 R09: ffffed10431ee1c6
> > > R10: ffffed10431ee1c5 R11: ffff888218f70e2b R12: ffffffff8c0fa030
> > > R13: 0000000000000001 R14: ffffc90001de7a40 R15: ffffffff8c0fa188
> > > FS: 0000000001060880(0000) GS:ffff8880ae800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> > > CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> > > CR2: 0000000000000002 CR3: 000000009e6b8000 CR4: 00000000001406f0
> > > DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> > > DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> > > Call Trace:
> > > serial_out drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250.h:118 [inline]
> > > serial8250_clear_fifos.part.0+0x3a/0xb0
> > > drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:557
> > > serial8250_clear_fifos drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:556 [inline]
> > > serial8250_do_startup+0x426/0x1cf0 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:2121
> > > serial8250_startup+0x62/0x80 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:2329
> > > uart_port_startup drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c:219 [inline]
> > > uart_startup drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c:258 [inline]
> > > uart_startup+0x452/0x980 drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c:249
> > > uart_set_info drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c:998 [inline]
> > > uart_set_info_user+0x13b4/0x1cf0 drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c:1023
> > > tty_tiocsserial drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2506 [inline]
> > > tty_ioctl+0xf60/0x14f0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2648
> > > vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:47 [inline]
> > > file_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:545 [inline]
> > > do_vfs_ioctl+0x977/0x14e0 fs/ioctl.c:732
> > > ksys_ioctl+0xab/0xd0 fs/ioctl.c:749
> > > __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:756 [inline]
> > > __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:754 [inline]
> > > __x64_sys_ioctl+0x73/0xb0 fs/ioctl.c:754
> > > do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x790 arch/x86/entry/common.c:294
> > > entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe
> > > RIP: 0033:0x440219
> > > Code: 18 89 d0 c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7
> > > 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff
> > > 0f 83 fb 13 fc ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00
> > > RSP: 002b:00007ffced648c78 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
> > > RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00000000004002c8 RCX: 0000000000440219
> > > RDX: 0000000020000240 RSI: 000000000000541f RDI: 0000000000000003
> > > RBP: 00000000006ca018 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00000000004002c8
> > > R10: 0000000000401b30 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000401aa0
> > > R13: 0000000000401b30 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
> > > Modules linked in:
> > > CR2: 0000000000000002
> > > ---[ end trace eaa11ffe82f3a763 ]---
> > > RIP: 0010:writeb arch/x86/include/asm/io.h:65 [inline]
> > > RIP: 0010:mem_serial_out+0x70/0x90 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:408
> > > Code: e9 00 00 00 49 8d 7c 24 40 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 fa 48
> > > c1 ea 03 d3 e3 80 3c 02 00 75 19 48 63 db 49 03 5c 24 40 <44> 88 2b 5b 41 5c
> > > 41 5d 5d c3 e8 81 ed cf fd eb c0 e8 da ed cf fd
> > > RSP: 0018:ffffc90001de78e8 EFLAGS: 00010202
> > > RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000002 RCX: 0000000000000000
> > > RDX: 1ffffffff181f40e RSI: ffffffff83e28776 RDI: ffffffff8c0fa070
> > > RBP: ffffc90001de7900 R08: ffff8880919dc340 R09: ffffed10431ee1c6
> > > R10: ffffed10431ee1c5 R11: ffff888218f70e2b R12: ffffffff8c0fa030
> > > R13: 0000000000000001 R14: ffffc90001de7a40 R15: ffffffff8c0fa188
> > > FS: 0000000001060880(0000) GS:ffff8880ae800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> > > CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> > > CR2: 0000000000000002 CR3: 000000009e6b8000 CR4: 00000000001406f0
> > > DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> > > DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> > >
> >
> > You set up a dubious memory base for your uart and then get upset when
> > you write to that location.
> >
> > I don't know what to really do about this, this is a root-only operation
> > and you are expected to know what you are doing when you attempt this.
>
> Hi Greg,
>
> Thanks for looking into this!
> Should we restrict the fuzzer from accessing /dev/ttyS* entirely?

No, not at all.

> Or only restrict TIOCSSERIAL on them? Something else?

Try running not as root. if you have CAP_SYS_ADMIN you can do a lot of
pretty bad things with tty ports, as you see here. There's a reason the
LOCKDOWN_TIOCSSERIAL "security lockdown" check was added :)

The TIOCSSERIAL ioctl is a nice one for a lot of things that are able to
be done as a normal user (baud rate changes, etc.), but there are also
things like setting io port memory locations that can cause random
hardware accesses and kernel crashes, as you instantly found out here :)

So restrict the fuzzer to only run as a "normal" user of the serial
port, and if you find problems there, I'll be glad to look at them.

thanks,

greg k-h