linux-kernel - nvdimm crash at boot

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Date:   Tue, 8 Jan 2019 15:10:12 -0800
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>
Cc:     linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: nvdimm crash at boot

This is a warn that I added to fail more gracefully (sorry for
whitespace damage):

diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/dimm_devs.c b/drivers/nvdimm/dimm_devs.c
index 4890310df874..1161b994b1ec 100644
--- a/drivers/nvdimm/dimm_devs.c
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/dimm_devs.c
@@ -516,6 +516,8 @@ static umode_t nvdimm_visible(struct kobject
*kobj, struct attribute *a, int n)
                return a->mode;
        if (nvdimm->sec.state < 0)
                return 0;
+       if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!nvdimm->sec.ops))
+               return 0;
        /* Are there any state mutation ops? */
        if (nvdimm->sec.ops->freeze || nvdimm->sec.ops->disable
                        || nvdimm->sec.ops->change_key

Without it, I would crash at boot due to the sec.ops dereference. It's
not clear to me if there is a better solution than just the sec.ops
NULL test (i.e. should it ever be NULL?)

[    1.393599] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 484 at
drivers/nvdimm/dimm_devs.c:519 nvdimm_visible+0x79/0x80
[    1.393858] Modules linked in:
[    1.393858] CPU: 3 PID: 484 Comm: kworker/u8:3 Not tainted 5.0.0-rc1+ #926
[    1.393858] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996),
BIOS 1.10.2-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014
[    1.396781] Workqueue: events_unbound async_run_entry_fn
[    1.396781] RIP: 0010:nvdimm_visible+0x79/0x80
[    1.396781] Code: e8 4c fc ff ff eb c7 48 83 78 20 00 75 e6 48 83
78 10 00 75 df 48 83 78 28 00 75 d8 48 83 78 30 00 75 d1 b8 24 01 00
00 eb b1 <0f> 0b eb ad 0f 1f 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 89 e5 41 57 41 56
41 55
[    1.396781] RSP: 0000:ffffb911803abd00 EFLAGS: 00010246
[    1.396781] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffff98cf5a80 RCX: 00000000000001a4
[    1.396781] RDX: 0000000000000004 RSI: ffffffff98cf5a80 RDI: ffff94e7ed088028
[    1.396781] RBP: ffffb911803abd10 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001
[    1.396781] R10: ffffb911803abaf8 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff94e7ed088028
[    1.396781] R13: ffff94e7ed088028 R14: ffffffff98cf5a60 R15: 0000000000000000
[    1.396781] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff94e7efb80000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
[    1.396781] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[    1.396781] CR2: 00000000ffffffff CR3: 0000000150822001 CR4: 00000000001606e0
[    1.396781] Call Trace:
[    1.396781]  internal_create_group+0xf4/0x380
[    1.396781]  sysfs_create_groups+0x46/0xb0
[    1.396781]  device_add+0x331/0x680
[    1.396781]  nd_async_device_register+0x15/0x60
[    1.396781]  async_run_entry_fn+0x38/0x100
[    1.396781]  process_one_work+0x22b/0x5a0
[    1.396781]  worker_thread+0x3f/0x3b0
[    1.396781]  kthread+0x12b/0x150
[    1.396781]  ? process_one_work+0x5a0/0x5a0
[    1.396781]  ? kthread_park+0xa0/0xa0
[    1.396781]  ret_from_fork+0x24/0x30
[    1.396781] irq event stamp: 952
[    1.396781] hardirqs last  enabled at (951): [<ffffffff973f5cb4>]
__slab_alloc.constprop.79+0x44/0x70
[    1.396781] hardirqs last disabled at (952): [<ffffffff97201cf0>]
trace_hardirqs_off_thunk+0x1a/0x1c
[    1.396781] softirqs last  enabled at (0): [<ffffffff97267ae3>]
copy_process.part.55+0x413/0x1f10
[    1.396781] softirqs last disabled at (0): [<0000000000000000>]
      (null)
[    1.396781] ---[ end trace 5608ce056f09564f ]---

I assume this crash is due to be using nvdimm without any special
markings (i.e. I'm using it crudely with pstore), in KVM:

RAM_SIZE=16384
NVDIMM_SIZE=128
MAX_SIZE=$(( RAM_SIZE + NVDIMM_SIZE ))

sudo qemu-system-x86_64 \
  ...
        -machine pc,nvdimm \
        -m ${RAM_SIZE}M,slots=2,maxmem=${MAX_SIZE}M \
        -object
memory-backend-file,id=mem1,share=on,mem-path=nvdimm.img,size=${NVDIMM_SIZE}M,align=128M
\
        -device nvdimm,id=nvdimm1,memdev=mem1 \
...
        -append '... ramoops.mem_size=1048576 ramoops.ecc=1
ramoops.mem_address=0x440000000 ramoops.console_size=16384
ramoops.ftrace_size=16384 ramoops.pmsg_size=16384
ramoops.record_size=32768'

I assume 37833fb7989a9 ("acpi/nfit, libnvdimm: Add freeze security
support to Intel nvdimm") was where it started, but I didn't actually
bisect.

-- 
Kees Cook