linux-kernel - Re: PROBLEM: syzkaller found / pool corruption-overwrite / page in user-area or NULL

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Date:   Thu, 10 Jan 2019 15:39:51 -0500
From:   Qian Cai <cai@....pw>
To:     James Bottomley <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>, Esme <esploit@...tonmail.ch>,
        "dgilbert@...erlog.com" <dgilbert@...erlog.com>,
        "martin.petersen@...cle.com" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        "linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: syzkaller found / pool corruption-overwrite / page in
 user-area or NULL

On Thu, 2019-01-10 at 11:58 -0800, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Thu, 2019-01-10 at 19:12 +0000, Esme wrote:
> > Sorry for the resend some mail servers rejected the mime type.
> > 
> > Hi, I've been getting more into Kernel stuff lately and forged ahead
> > with some syzkaller bug finding.  I played with reducing it further
> > as you can see from the attached c code but am moving on and hope to
> > get better about this process moving forward as I'm still building
> > out my test systems/debugging tools.
> > 
> > Attached is the report and C repro that still triggers on a fresh git
> > pull as of a few minutes ago, if you need anything else please let me
> > know.
> > Esme
> > 
> > Linux syzkaller 5.0.0-rc1+ #5 SMP Tue Jan 8 20:39:33 EST 2019 x86_64
> > GNU/Linux
> 
> I'm not sure I'm reading this right, but it seems that a simple
> allocation inside block/scsi_ioctl.h
> 
> 	buffer = kzalloc(bytes, q->bounce_gfp | GFP_USER| __GFP_NOWARN);
> 
> (where bytes is < 4k) caused a slub padding check failure on free. 
> From the internal details, the freeing entity seems to be KASAN as part
> of its quarantine reduction (albeit triggered by this kzalloc).  I'm
> not remotely familiar with what KASAN is doing, but it seems the memory
> corruption problem is somewhere within the KASAN tracking?
> 
> I added linux-mm in case they can confirm this diagnosis or give me a
> pointer to what might be wrong in scsi.
> 

Did you enable page_poison with PAGE_POISONING_ZERO=y ?