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

Ben Dooks ben.dooks at codethink.co.uk
Mon Mar 15 14:41:42 GMT 2021


On 15/03/2021 11:52, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> 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'm not sure. I will have a go at debugging on qemu today just to make
sure I can reproduce here before I have to go into the office and fix
my Icicle board for real hardware tests.

I think my first plan post reproduction is to stuff some trace points
into the fault handlers to see if we can get a idea of faults being
processed, etc.

Maybe also add a check in the fault handler to see if the fault was
in a fixable region and post an error if that happens / maybe retry
the instruction with the relevant SR_SUM flag set.

Hopefully tomorrow I can get a run on real hardware to confirm.
Would have been better if the Unmatched board I ordered last year
would turn up.




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