linux-kernel - Re: kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/volumes.c:LINE!

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Date:   Thu, 7 Jun 2018 18:28:02 +0200
From:   Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
To:     dsterba@...e.cz, Anand Jain <anand.jain@...cle.com>,
        syzbot <syzbot+5b658d997a83984507a6@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
        clm@...com, dsterba@...e.com, Josef Bacik <jbacik@...com>,
        linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        syzkaller-bugs <syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/volumes.c:LINE!

On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 5:34 PM, David Sterba <dsterba@...e.cz> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 12:15:04AM +0800, Anand Jain wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 06/06/2018 09:31 PM, syzbot wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > syzbot found the following crash on:
>> >
>> > HEAD commit:    af6c5d5e01ad Merge branch 'for-4.18' of
>> > git://git.kernel.o..
>> > git tree:       upstream
>> > console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=15f700af800000
>> > kernel config:  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=12ff770540994680
>> > dashboard link:
>> > https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=5b658d997a83984507a6
>> > compiler:       gcc (GCC) 8.0.1 20180413 (experimental)
>> >
>> > Unfortunately, I don't have any reproducer for this crash yet.
>> >
>> > IMPORTANT: if you fix the bug, please add the following tag to the commit:
>> > Reported-by: syzbot+5b658d997a83984507a6@...kaller.appspotmail.com
>> >
>> > RDX: 0000000020000080 RSI: 0000000020000040 RDI: 00007f787067fbf0
>> > RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 00000000200000c0 R09: 0000000020000080
>> > R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000000014
>> > R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000000000700008 R15: 0000000000000043
>> > ------------[ cut here ]------------
>> > kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/volumes.c:1032!
>> > invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN
>> > CPU: 1 PID: 22303 Comm: syz-executor1 Not tainted 4.17.0+ #86
>> > Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS
>> > Google 01/01/2011
>> > RIP: 0010:btrfs_prepare_close_one_device fs/btrfs/volumes.c:1032 [inline]
>>
>> btrfs_prepare_close_one_device()
>> ::
>> 1031           name = rcu_string_strdup(device->name->str, GFP_NOFS);
>> 1032           BUG_ON(!name); /* -ENOMEM */
>>
>> The way we close our devices needs new memory allocations
>> at the time of device close. By doing this apart from the BUG_ON
>> reported here, there _were_ other complications like managing the sysfs
>> links and moving them to the newly allocated btrfs_fs_devices.
>> So sometime back I attempted to correct this approach to a simple
>> device close without fresh allocation, however it wasn't successful.
>> I am going to try that again, but its not p1.
>
> Yeah, getting rid of the allocations while freeing device would be great
> but unfortunatelly is not simple.
>
> Normally the GFP_NOFS allocations do not fail so I think the fuzzer
> environment is tuned to allow that, which is fine for coverage but does
> not happen in practice. This will be fixed eventually.

Isn't GFP_NOFS more restricted than normal allocations? Are these
allocations accounted against memcg? It's easy to fail any allocation
within a memory container.