Re: How to reproduce the BUG general protection fault in hci_uart_tty_ioctl?

[joeyli <jlee@suse.com>]

Hi Weiteng Chen, Yu Hao, 

On Mon, Jul 03, 2023 at 09:07:38PM -0700, Weiteng Chen wrote:
> Hi Joey,
> 
> Sorry for my late response.
> 
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.3-rc7/source/drivers/bluetooth/hci_ldisc.c#L764
> 
> switch (cmd) {
>         case HCIUARTSETPROTO:
>                 if (!test_and_set_bit(HCI_UART_PROTO_SET, &hu->flags)) {
>                         printk(“test_and_set_bit…”) // insert a prink to make the race easy to trigger
>                         err = hci_uart_set_proto(hu, arg);
>                         if (err)
>                                 clear_bit(HCI_UART_PROTO_SET, &hu->flags);
>                 } else
>                         err = -EBUSY;
>                 break;
> 
>         case HCIUARTGETPROTO:
>                 if (test_bit(HCI_UART_PROTO_SET, &hu->flags))
>                         err = hu->proto->id;  ←- null pointer deference
>                 else
>                         err = -EUNATCH;
>                 break;
> 
> This is a race condition between HCIUARTSETPROTO and HCIUARTGETPROTO. HCI_UART_PROTO_SET is set before hu->proto is set and thus it may dereference a null pointer.
> 
> To easily trigger this bug, I inserted a prink in the source code so that the C producer can easily trigger the bug. Please let me know if you have any questions.
> 

Thanks! I can reproduce the issue now. 

Weiteng, Yu Hao, do you have plan for sending patch to fix this problem?

Joey Lee


> Best,
> Weiteng Chen
> 
> > On Jul 3, 2023, at 8:01 PM, joeyli <jlee@suse.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 06:57:47PM -0700, Yu Hao wrote:
> >> Hi Weiteng,
> >> 
> >> Could you give more info about the bug, e.g., kernel configuration,
> >> qemu arguments.
> >> 
> > 
> > Base on kernel code, looks that the HCIUARTSETPROTO and HCIUARTGETPROTO
> > blocks in hci_uart_tty_ioctl() should use hci_uart->proto_lock. 
> > 
> > I have run the C reproducer a couple of days in qemu, but it did not
> > reproduce issue until now.
> > 
> > Does anyone know how to reproduce this issue easily?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Joey Lee
> >> 
> >> On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 8:02 AM joeyli <jlee@suse.com> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> Hi Yu Hao,
> >>> 
> >>> I am looking at your "BUG: general protection fault in hci_uart_tty_ioctl":
> >>> 
> >>> https://lore.kernel.org/all/CA+UBctC3p49aTgzbVgkSZ2+TQcqq4fPDO7yZitFT5uBPDeCO2g@mail.gmail.com/
> >>> 
> >>> I am trying the C reproducer in your URL, but it is not success yet:
> >>> https://gist.github.com/ZHYfeng/a3e3ff2bdfea5ed5de5475f0b54d55cb
> >>> 
> >>> I am using v6.2 mainline kernel to run the C reproducer.
> >>> 
> >>> Could you please provide suggestions for how to reproduce this issue?
> >>> And what is your qemu environment for reproducing issue?
> >>> 
> >>> Thanks a lot!
> >>> Joey Lee