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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>,
	syzbot+51177e4144d764827c45@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: WARNING in __kernel_read (2)
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 08:56:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200929065601.GA2095@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200929064648.GA238449@sol.localdomain>

On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 11:46:48PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > Linus asked for it.  What is the call chain that we hit it with?
> 
> Call Trace:
>  kernel_read+0x52/0x70 fs/read_write.c:471
>  kernel_read_file fs/exec.c:989 [inline]
>  kernel_read_file+0x2e5/0x620 fs/exec.c:952
>  kernel_read_file_from_fd+0x56/0xa0 fs/exec.c:1076
>  __do_sys_finit_module+0xe6/0x190 kernel/module.c:4066
>  do_syscall_64+0x2d/0x70 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
>  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
> 
> See the email from syzbot for the full details:
> https://lkml.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/000000000000da992305b02e9a51@google.com

Passing a fs without read permissions definitively looks bogus for
the finit_module syscall.  So I think all we need is an extra check
to validate the fd.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-29  6:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-26  2:58 WARNING in __kernel_read (2) syzbot
2020-09-26 11:15 ` David Laight
2020-09-26 13:17   ` David Laight
2020-09-28 22:14     ` Eric Biggers
2020-09-29  6:38       ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-29  6:46         ` Eric Biggers
2020-09-29  6:56           ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-09-29  8:06             ` David Laight
2020-09-29  8:21               ` Dmitry Vyukov
2020-09-29 10:21                 ` Christoph Hellwig

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