WARNING in __do_kernel_fault

[Andrey Konovalov]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 6:24 PM Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov at google.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 6:15 PM Will Deacon <will at kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 06:00:30PM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 5:56 PM syzbot
> > > <syzbot+45b6fce29ff97069e2c5 at syzkaller.appspotmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > syzbot found the following issue on:
> > > >
> > > > HEAD commit:    2ab38c17 mailmap: remove the "repo-abbrev" comment
> > > > git tree:       upstream
> > > > console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=15a25264d00000
> > > > kernel config:  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=ad43be24faf1194c
> > > > dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=45b6fce29ff97069e2c5
> > > > userspace arch: arm64
> > > >
> > > > Unfortunately, I don't have any reproducer for this issue yet.
> > > >
> > > > IMPORTANT: if you fix the issue, please add the following tag to the commit:
> > > > Reported-by: syzbot+45b6fce29ff97069e2c5 at syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> > >
> > > This happens on arm64 instance with mte enabled.
> > > There is a GPF in reiserfs_xattr_init on x86_64 reported:
> > > https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=8abaedbdeb32c861dc5340544284167dd0e46cde
> > > so I would assume it's just a plain NULL deref. Is this WARNING not
> > > indicative of a kernel bug? Or there is something special about this
> > > particular NULL deref?
> >
> > Congratulations, you're the first person to trigger this warning!
> >
> > This fires if we take an unexpected data abort in the kernel but when we
> > get into the fault handler the page-table looks ok (according to the CPU via
> > an 'AT' instruction). Are you using QEMU system emulation? Perhaps its
> > handling of AT isn't quite right.
>
> Hi Will,
>
> Yes, it's qemu-system-aarch64 5.2 with -machine virt,mte=on -cpu max.
> Do you see any way forward for this issue? Can somehow prove/disprove
> it's qemu at fault?

I've reproduced this crash (by taking [1] and changing
sys_memfd_create to 279), but it manifests as a normal null-ptr-deref
for me. I'm using the latest QEMU master. Which QEMU does syzbot use
exactly?

[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/text?tag=ReproC&x=14d3621cd00000