[syzbot] [mm?] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in copy_from_kernel_nofault (2)
Puranjay Mohan
puranjay12 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 9 00:45:54 PDT 2024
"Russell King (Oracle)" <linux at armlinux.org.uk> writes:
> On Fri, Apr 05, 2024 at 10:50:30AM -0700, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 5, 2024 at 9:30 AM Alexei Starovoitov
>> <alexei.starovoitov at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Fri, Apr 5, 2024 at 4:36 AM Russell King (Oracle)
>> > <linux at armlinux.org.uk> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > On Fri, Apr 05, 2024 at 12:02:36PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
>> > > > On Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 03:57:04PM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
>> > > > > On Wed, Apr 3, 2024 at 6:56 PM Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundationorg> wrote:
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > On Mon, 01 Apr 2024 22:19:25 -0700 syzbot <syzbot+186522670e6722692d86 at syzkaller.appspotmail.com> wrote:
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > > Hello,
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > Thanks. Cc: bpf at vger.kernel.org
>> > > > >
>> > > > > I suspect the issue is not on bpf side.
>> > > > > Looks like the bug is somewhere in arm32 bits.
>> > > > > copy_from_kernel_nofault() is called from lots of places.
>> > > > > bpf is just one user that is easy for syzbot to fuzz.
>> > > > > Interestingly arm defines copy_from_kernel_nofault_allowed()
>> > > > > that should have filtered out user addresses.
>> > > > > In this case ffffffe9 is probably a kernel address?
>> > > >
>> > > > It's at the end of the kernel range, and it's ERR_PTR(-EINVAL).
>> > > >
>> > > > 0xffffffe9 is -0x16, which is -22, which is -EINVAL.
>> > > >
>> > > > > But the kernel is doing a write?
>> > > > > Which makes no sense, since copy_from_kernel_nofault is probe reading.
>> > > >
>> > > > It makes perfect sense; the read from 'src' happened, then the kernel tries to
>> > > > write the result to 'dst', and that aligns with the disassembly in the report
>> > > > below, which I beleive is:
>> > > >
>> > > > 8: e4942000 ldr r2, [r4], #0 <-- Read of 'src', fault fixup is elsewhere
>> > > > c: e3530000 cmp r3, #0
>> > > > * 10: e5852000 str r2, [r5] <-- Write to 'dst'
>> > > >
>> > > > As above, it looks like 'dst' is ERR_PTR(-EINVAL).
>> > > >
>> > > > Are you certain that BPF is passing a sane value for 'dst'? Where does that
>> > > > come from in the first place?
>> > >
>> > > It looks to me like it gets passed in from the BPF program, and the
>> > > "type" for the argument is set to ARG_PTR_TO_UNINIT_MEM. What that
>> > > means for validation purposes, I've no idea, I'm not a BPF hacker.
>> > >
>> > > Obviously, if BPF is allowing copy_from_kernel_nofault() to be passed
>> > > an arbitary destination address, that would be a huge security hole.
>> >
>> > If that's the case that's indeed a giant security hole,
>> > but I doubt it. We would be crashing other archs as well.
>> > I cannot really tell whether arm32 JIT is on.
>> > If it is, it's likely a bug there.
>> > Puranjay,
>> > could you please take a look.
>> >
>>
>> I dumped the BPF program that repro.c is loading, it works on x86-64
>> and there is nothing special there. We are probe-reading 5 bytes from
>> somewhere into the stack. Everything is unaligned here, but stays
>> within a well-defined memory slot.
>>
>> Note the r3 = (s8)r1, that's a new-ish thing, maybe bug is somewhere
>> there (but then it would be JIT, not verifier itself)
>>
>> 0: (7a) *(u64 *)(r10 -8) = 896542069
>> 1: (bf) r1 = r10
>> 2: (07) r1 += -7
>> 3: (b7) r2 = 5
>> 4: (bf) r3 = (s8)r1
>> 5: (85) call bpf_probe_read_kernel#-72390
>
I have started looking into this, the issue only reproduces when the JIT
is enabled. With the interpreter, it works fine.
I used GDB to dump the JITed BPF program:
0xbf00012c: push {r4, r5, r6, r7, r8, r9, r11, lr}
0xbf000130: mov r11, sp
0xbf000134: mov r3, #0
0xbf000138: sub r2, sp, #80 @ 0x50
0xbf00013c: sub sp, sp, #88 @ 0x58
0xbf000140: strd r2, [r11, #-64] @ 0xffffffc0
0xbf000144: mov r2, #0
0xbf000148: strd r2, [r11, #-72] @ 0xffffffb8
0xbf00014c: mov r2, r0
0xbf000150: movw r8, #9589 @ 0x2575
0xbf000154: movt r8, #13680 @ 0x3570
0xbf000158: mov r9, #0
0xbf00015c: ldr r6, [r11, #-64] @ 0xffffffc0
0xbf000160: str r8, [r6, #-8]
0xbf000164: str r9, [r6, #-4]
0xbf000168: ldrd r2, [r11, #-64] @ 0xffffffc0
0xbf00016c: movw r8, #65529 @ 0xfff9
0xbf000170: movt r8, #65535 @ 0xffff
0xbf000174: movw r9, #65535 @ 0xffff
0xbf000178: movt r9, #65535 @ 0xffff
0xbf00017c: adds r2, r2, r8
0xbf000180: adc r3, r3, r9
0xbf000184: mov r6, #5
0xbf000188: mov r7, #0
0xbf00018c: strd r6, [r11, #-8]
0xbf000190: ldrd r6, [r11, #-16]
0xbf000194: lsl r2, r2, #24
0xbf000198: asr r2, r2, #24
0xbf00019c: str r2, [r11, #-16]
0xbf0001a0: asr r7, r6, #31
0xbf0001a4: mov r1, r3
0xbf0001a8: mov r0, r2
0xbf0001ac: ldrd r2, [r11, #-8]
0xbf0001b0: ldrd r8, [r11, #-32] @ 0xffffffe0
0xbf0001b4: push {r8, r9}
0xbf0001b8: ldrd r8, [r11, #-24] @ 0xffffffe8
0xbf0001bc: push {r8, r9}
0xbf0001c0: ldrd r8, [r11, #-16]
0xbf0001c4: push {r8, r9}
0xbf0001c8: movw r6, #40536 @ 0x9e58
0xbf0001cc: movt r6, #49223 @ 0xc047
0xbf0001d0: blx r6
0xbf0001d4: add sp, sp, #24
0xbf0001d8: mov r0, #0
0xbf0001dc: mov r1, #0
0xbf0001e0: mov sp, r11
0xbf0001e4: pop {r4, r5, r6, r7, r8, r9, r11, pc}
Thanks,
Puranjay
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