Re: [syzbot] [kernel?] general protection fault in vhost_task_start

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 01:55:00PM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 12:46:04PM -0500, Mike Christie wrote:
> > On 3/21/23 12:03 PM, syzbot wrote:
> > > RIP: 0010:vhost_task_start+0x22/0x40 kernel/vhost_task.c:115
> > > Code: 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 00 f3 0f 1e fa 53 48 89 fb e8 c3 67 2c 00 48 8d 7b 70 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <80> 3c 02 00 75 0a 48 8b 7b 70 5b e9 fe bd 02 00 e8 79 ec 7e 00 eb
> > > RSP: 0018:ffffc90003a9fc38 EFLAGS: 00010207
> > > RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: fffffffffffffff4 RCX: 0000000000000000
> > > RDX: 000000000000000c RSI: ffffffff81564c8d RDI: 0000000000000064
> > > RBP: ffff88802b21dd40 R08: 0000000000000100 R09: ffffffff8c917cf3
> > > R10: 00000000fffffff4 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: fffffffffffffff4
> > > R13: ffff888075d000b0 R14: ffff888075d00000 R15: ffff888075d00008
> > > FS:  0000555556247300(0000) GS:ffff8880b9800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> > > CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> > > CR2: 00007ffe3d8e5ff8 CR3: 00000000215d4000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
> > > DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> > > DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> > > Call Trace:
> > >  <TASK>
> > >  vhost_worker_create drivers/vhost/vhost.c:580 [inline]
> > 
> > The return value from vhost_task_create is incorrect if the kzalloc fails.
> > 
> > Christian, here is a fix for what's in your tree. Do you want me to submit
> > a follow up patch like this or a replacement patch for:
> > 
> > commit 77feab3c4156 ("vhost_task: Allow vhost layer to use copy_process")
> > 
> > with the fix rolled into it?
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > >From 0677ad6d77722f301ca35e8e0f8fd0cbd5ed8484 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com>
> > Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 12:39:39 -0500
> > Subject: [PATCH] vhost_task: Fix vhost_task_create return value
> > 
> > vhost_task_create is supposed to return the vhost_task or NULL on
> > failure. This fixes it to return the correct value when the allocation
> > of the struct fails.
> > ---
> >  kernel/vhost_task.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/kernel/vhost_task.c b/kernel/vhost_task.c
> > index 4b8aff160640..b7cbd66f889e 100644
> > --- a/kernel/vhost_task.c
> > +++ b/kernel/vhost_task.c
> > @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ struct vhost_task *vhost_task_create(int (*fn)(void *), void *arg,
> >  
> >  	vtsk = kzalloc(sizeof(*vtsk), GFP_KERNEL);
> >  	if (!vtsk)
> > -		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> > +		return NULL;
> >  	init_completion(&vtsk->exited);
> >  	vtsk->data = arg;
> >  	vtsk->fn = fn;
> > 

Sorry I had nothing to add here. Sent by mistake.