Re: riscv+KASAN does not boot

Alex Ghiti
2021-02-16T20:43:33Z

Hi Dmitry,

Le 2/16/21 à 6:25 AM, Dmitry Vyukov a écrit :
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 12:17 PM Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 9:11 AM Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> wrote:
>>>> I was fixing KASAN support for my sv48 patchset so I took a look at your
>>>> issue: I built a kernel on top of the branch riscv/fixes using
>>>> https://github.com/google/syzkaller/blob/269d24e857a757d09a898086a2fa6fa5d827c3e1/dashboard/config/linux/upstream-riscv64-kasan.config
>>>> and Buildroot 2020.11. I have the warnings regarding the use of
>>>> __virt_to_phys on wrong addresses (but that's normal since this function
>>>> is used in virt_addr_valid) but not the segfaults you describe.
>>>
>>> Hi Alex,
>>>
>>> Let me try to rebuild buildroot image. Maybe there was something wrong
>>> with my build, though, I did 'make clean' before doing. But at the
>>> same time it worked back in June...
>>>
>>> Re WARNINGs, they indicate kernel bugs. I am working on setting up a
>>> syzbot instance on riscv. If there a WARNING during boot then the
>>> kernel will be marked as broken. No further testing will happen.
>>> Is it a mis-use of WARN_ON? If so, could anybody please remove it or
>>> replace it with pr_err.
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've localized one issue with riscv/KASAN:
>> KASAN breaks VDSO and that's I think the root cause of weird faults I
>> saw earlier. The following patch fixes it.
>> Could somebody please upstream this fix? I don't know how to add/run
>> tests for this.
>> Thanks
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile b/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile
>> index 0cfd6da784f84..cf3a383c1799d 100644
>> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile
>> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile
>> @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ CFLAGS_REMOVE_vgettimeofday.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE) -Os
>> # Disable gcov profiling for VDSO code
>> GCOV_PROFILE := n
>> KCOV_INSTRUMENT := n
>> +KASAN_SANITIZE := n
>>
>> # Force dependency
>> $(obj)/vdso.o: $(obj)/vdso.so

What's weird is that I don't have any issue without this patch with the
following config whereas it indeed seems required for KASAN. But when
looking at the segfaults you got earlier, the segfault address is 0xbb0
and the cause is an instruction page fault: this address is the PLT base
address in vdso.so and an instruction page fault would mean that someone
tried to jump at this address, which is weird. At first sight, that does
not seem related to your patch above, but clearly I may be wrong.

Tobias, did you observe the same segfaults as Dmitry ?

>
>
>
> Second issue I am seeing seems to be related to text segment size.
> I check out v5.11 and use this config:
> https://gist.github.com/dvyukov/6af25474d455437577a84213b0cc9178

This config gave my laptop a hard time ! Finally I was able to boot
correctly to userspace, but I realized I used my sv48 branch...Either I
fixed your issue along the way or I can't reproduce it, I'll give it a
try tomorrow.

>
> Then trying to boot it using:
> QEMU emulator version 5.2.0 (Debian 1:5.2+dfsg-3)
> $ qemu-system-riscv64 -machine virt -smp 2 -m 4G ...
>
> It shows no output from the kernel whatsoever, even though I have
> earlycon and output shows very early with other configs.
> Kernel boots fine with defconfig and other smaller configs.
>
> If I enable KASAN_OUTLINE and CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE, then this config
> also boots fine. Both of these options significantly reduce kernel
> size. However, I can also boot the kernel without these 2 configs, if
> I disable a whole lot of subsystem configs. This makes me think that
> there is an issue related to kernel size somewhere in
> qemu/bootloader/kernel bootstrap code.
> Does it make sense to you? Can somebody reproduce what I am seeing? >

I did not bring any answer to your question, but at least you know I'm
working on it, I'll keep you posted.

Thanks for taking the time to setup syzkaller.

Alex

> Thanks
>
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