[syzbot] BUG: unable to handle kernel access to user memory in sock_ioctl

Dmitry Vyukov dvyukov at google.com
Mon Mar 15 11:52:03 GMT 2021


On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 12:30 PM Ben Dooks <ben.dooks at codethink.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On 14/03/2021 11:03, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 11:01 AM Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov at google.com> wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 7:28 PM syzbot
> >>> <syzbot+c23c5421600e9b454849 at syzkaller.appspotmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Hello,
> >>>>
> >>>> syzbot found the following issue on:
> >>>>
> >>>> HEAD commit:    0d7588ab riscv: process: Fix no prototype for arch_dup_tas..
> >>>> git tree:       git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux.git fixes
> >>>> console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=122c343ad00000
> >>>> kernel config:  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=e3c595255fb2d136
> >>>> dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=c23c5421600e9b454849
> >>>> userspace arch: riscv64
> >>>>
> >>>> 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+c23c5421600e9b454849 at syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> >>>
> >>> +riscv maintainers
> >>>
> >>> Another case of put_user crashing.
> >>
> >> There are 58 crashes in sock_ioctl already. Somehow there is a very
> >> significant skew towards crashing with this "user memory without
> >> uaccess routines" in schedule_tail and sock_ioctl of all places in the
> >> kernel that use put_user... This looks very strange... Any ideas
> >> what's special about these 2 locations?
> >
> > I could imagine if such a crash happens after a previous stack
> > overflow and now task data structures are corrupted. But f_getown does
> > not look like a function that consumes way more than other kernel
> > syscalls...
>
> The last crash I looked at suggested somehow put_user got re-entered
> with the user protection turned back on. Either there is a path through
> one of the kernel handlers where this happens or there's something
> weird going on with qemu.

Is there any kind of tracking/reporting that would help to localize
it? I could re-reproduce with that code.

> I'll be trying to get this run up on real hardware this week, the nvme
> with my debian install died last week so I have to go and re-install
> the machine to get development work done on it.
>
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