linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/7] test: add firmware

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Message-ID: <541A3A8D.9010908@oracle.com>
Date:	Wed, 17 Sep 2014 21:51:09 -0400
From:	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
To:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
CC:	Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	James Morris <james.l.morris@...cle.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, linux-firmware@...nel.org,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] test: add firmware_class loader test

On 07/14/2014 05:38 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> This provides a simple interface to trigger the firmware_class loader
> to test built-in, filesystem, and user helper modes. Additionally adds
> tests via the new interface to the selftests tree.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>

Hi folks,

While fuzzing with trinity inside a KVM tools guest running the latest -next
kernel, I've stumbled on the following spew:

[  413.999779] misc test_firmware: Falling back to user helper
[  414.003728] WARNING: CPU: 25 PID: 9860 at lib/kobject.c:209 kobject_add_internal+0x3a3/0x450()
[  414.006815] kobject: (ffff8807b4ef5dc8): attempted to be registered with empty name!
[  414.009482] Modules linked in:
[  414.010818] CPU: 25 PID: 9860 Comm: trinity-c662 Tainted: G        W      3.17.0-rc5-next-20140917-sasha-00041-gd01267b #1198
[  414.014626]  0000000000000009 ffff880236547a68 ffffffff9d56d655 0000000000000000
[  414.017585]  ffff880236547ab8 ffff880236547aa8 ffffffff9a15f3d1 00000000001e3540
[  414.020733]  ffff8807b4ef5dc8 00000000ffffffea ffff88043d114108 ffff8807b4ef5db8
[  414.023345] Call Trace:
[  414.024254] dump_stack (lib/dump_stack.c:52)
[  414.026232] warn_slowpath_common (kernel/panic.c:432)
[  414.028355] warn_slowpath_fmt (kernel/panic.c:446)
[  414.030366] ? __raw_spin_lock_init (kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:24)
[  414.032369] kobject_add_internal (lib/kobject.c:211 (discriminator 1))
[  414.034313] ? __dynamic_pr_debug (lib/dynamic_debug.c:561)
[  414.036254] kobject_add (lib/kobject.c:403)
[  414.038017] ? device_private_init (drivers/base/core.c:929)
[  414.040340] ? klist_init (lib/klist.c:90)
[  414.044729] device_add (drivers/base/core.c:1010)
[  414.049854] ? dev_set_name (drivers/base/core.c:876)
[  414.060790] _request_firmware (drivers/base/firmware_class.c:892 drivers/base/firmware_class.c:957 drivers/base/firmware_class.c:1139)
[  414.062814] request_firmware (drivers/base/firmware_class.c:1189)
[  414.064796] trigger_request_store (lib/test_firmware.c:68)
[  414.066774] dev_attr_store (drivers/base/core.c:138)
[  414.068531] sysfs_kf_write (fs/sysfs/file.c:115)
[  414.070826] kernfs_fop_write (fs/kernfs/file.c:308)
[  414.074648] ? kernfs_vma_page_mkwrite (fs/kernfs/file.c:267)
[  414.076864] do_loop_readv_writev (fs/read_write.c:710)
[  414.078947] ? kernfs_vma_page_mkwrite (fs/kernfs/file.c:267)
[  414.081269] do_readv_writev (fs/read_write.c:842)
[  414.083281] ? preempt_count_sub (kernel/sched/core.c:2634)
[  414.085380] ? mutex_lock_nested (./arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:98 kernel/locking/mutex.c:599 kernel/locking/mutex.c:616)
[  414.087401] ? __fdget_pos (fs/file.c:714)
[  414.089286] vfs_writev (fs/read_write.c:881)
[  414.091243] SyS_writev (fs/read_write.c:914 fs/read_write.c:905)
[  414.093053] tracesys_phase2 (arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:529)


Thanks,
Sasha
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