KASAN Arm: global-out-of-bounds in load_module

[Dmitry Vyukov]

On Sun, 28 Nov 2021 at 01:43, Miguel Ojeda
<miguel.ojeda.sandonis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi KASAN / Arm folks,
>
> I noticed in our CI that inserting and removing a module, and then
> inserting it again, e.g.:
>
>     insmod bcm2835_thermal.ko
>     rmmod bcm2835_thermal.ko
>     insmod bcm2835_thermal.ko
>
> deterministically triggers the report below in v5.16-rc2. I also tried
> it on v5.12 to see if it was a recent thing, but same story.
>
> I could find this other report from May, which may be related:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210510202653.gjvqsxacw3hcxfvr@pengutronix.de/
>
> Cheers,
> Miguel

HI Miguel,

0xf9 is redzone for global variables:
#define KASAN_GLOBAL_REDZONE    0xF9  /* redzone for global variable */

I would assume this is caused by not clearing shadow of unloaded
modules, so that the next module loaded hits these leftover redzones.

+arm mailing list and Linus W


> BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in load_module+0x1b98/0x33b0
> Write of size 16384 at addr bf000000 by task busybox/17
>
> CPU: 0 PID: 17 Comm: busybox Not tainted 5.15.0 #7
> Hardware name: Generic DT based system
> [<c010f968>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c010c6f8>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
> [<c010c6f8>] (show_stack) from [<c0210734>]
> (print_address_description+0x58/0x384)
> [<c0210734>] (print_address_description) from [<c0210cc8>]
> (kasan_report+0x168/0x1fc)
> [<c0210cc8>] (kasan_report) from [<c0211230>] (kasan_check_range+0x260/0x2a8)
> [<c0211230>] (kasan_check_range) from [<c0211c68>] (memset+0x20/0x44)
> [<c0211c68>] (memset) from [<c019d21c>] (load_module+0x1b98/0x33b0)
> [<c019d21c>] (load_module) from [<c0199f88>] (sys_init_module+0x198/0x1ac)
> [<c0199f88>] (sys_init_module) from [<c0100060>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x48)
> Exception stack(0xc113ffa8 to 0xc113fff0)
> ffa0:                   00000000 00002a98 00098038 00002a98 00081483 00093f88
> ffc0: 00000000 00002a98 00000000 00000080 00000001 b66ffef0 00081483 000815c7
> ffe0: b66ffbd8 b66ffbc8 000207f5 00011cc2
>
>
> Memory state around the buggy address:
>  bf001200: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>  bf001280: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> >bf001300: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f9 f9
>                                                      ^
>  bf001380: 00 00 07 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>  bf001400: 00 00 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 00 00 04 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9
>
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