linux-kernel - Re: mm/sched/net: BUG when running simple code

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Message-ID: <20140613041331.GA31688@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 13 Jun 2014 00:13:31 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
Cc:	Dan Aloni <dan@...nelim.com>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: mm/sched/net: BUG when running simple code

On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 12:01:37AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
 > On 06/12/2014 11:27 PM, Dan Aloni wrote:
 > > On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 10:56:16PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
 > >> > Hi all,
 > >> > 
 > >> > Okay, I'm really lost. I got the following when fuzzing, and can't really explain what's
 > >> > going on. It seems that we get a "unable to handle kernel paging request" when running
 > >> > rather simple code, and I can't figure out how it would cause it.
 > > [..]
 > >> > Which agrees with the trace I got:
 > >> > 
 > >> > [  516.309720] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffa0f12560
 > >> > [  516.309720] IP: netlink_getsockopt (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2271)
 > > [..]
 > >> > [  516.309720] RIP netlink_getsockopt (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2271)
 > >> > [  516.309720]  RSP <ffff8803fc85fed8>
 > >> > [  516.309720] CR2: ffffffffa0f12560
 > >> > 
 > >> > They only theory I had so far is that netlink is a module, and has gone away while the code
 > >> > was executing, but netlink isn't a module on my kernel.
 > > The RIP - 0xffffffffa0f12560 is in the range (from Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt):
 > > 
 > >     ffffffffa0000000 - ffffffffff5fffff (=1525 MB) module mapping space
 > > 
 > > So seems it was in a module.
 > 
 > Yup, that's why that theory came up, but when I checked my config:
 > ... 
 > that theory went away. (also confirmed by not finding a netlink module.)
 > 
 > What about the kernel .text overflowing into the modules space? The loader
 > checks for that, but can something like that happen after everything is
 > up and running? I'll look into that tomorrow.

another theory: Trinity can sometimes generate plausible looking module
addresses and pass those in structs etc.

I wonder if there's somewhere in that path that isn't checking that the address
in the optval it got is actually a userspace address before it tries to write to it.

	Dave

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