linux-kernel - Re: possible deadlock in open

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Message-ID: <CAAeHK+yAY_ov4yH7n-R8ppnxc1ux33A-SEdxx18ywU1SyLGwug@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 7 Aug 2019 16:24:52 +0200
From:   Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
To:     Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:     syzbot <syzbot+7bbcbe9c9ff0cd49592a@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        USB list <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
        Cesar Miquel <miquel@...uba.ar>,
        rio500-users@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        syzkaller-bugs <syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: possible deadlock in open_rio

On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 4:01 PM Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 7 Aug 2019, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 9:13 PM Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, 1 Aug 2019, syzbot wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > syzbot found the following crash on:
> > > >
> > > > HEAD commit:    7f7867ff usb-fuzzer: main usb gadget fuzzer driver
> > > > git tree:       https://github.com/google/kasan.git usb-fuzzer
> > > > console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=136b6aec600000
> > > > kernel config:  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=792eb47789f57810
> > > > dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=7bbcbe9c9ff0cd49592a
> > > > compiler:       gcc (GCC) 9.0.0 20181231 (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+7bbcbe9c9ff0cd49592a@...kaller.appspotmail.com
> > > >
> > > > ======================================================
> > > > WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
> > > > 5.3.0-rc2+ #23 Not tainted
> > > > ------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > Andrey:
> > >
> > > This should be completely reproducible, since it's a simple ABBA
> > > locking violation.  Maybe just introducing a time delay (to avoid races
> > > and give the open() call time to run) between the gadget creation and
> > > gadget removal would be enough to do it.
> >
> > I've tried some simple approaches to reproducing this, but failed.
> > Should this require two rio500 devices to trigger?
>
> No, one device should be enough.  Just plug it in and then try to open
> the character device file.

OK, I've reproduced it, so I can test a patch manually. The reason
syzbot couldn't do that, is because it doesn't open character devices.
Right now the USB fuzzing instance only opens /dev/input*,
/dev/hidraw* and /dev/usb/hiddev* (only the devices that are created
by USB HID devices as I've been working on adding USB HID targeted
fuzzing support lately).

I guess we should open /dev/chr/* as well. The problem is that there
300+ devices there even without connecting USB devices and opening
them blindly probably won't work. Is there a way to know which
character devices are created by USB devices? Maybe they are exposed
over /sys/bus/usb or via some other way?

>
> Alan Stern
>
> > > Is there any way you can test this?
> >
> > Not yet.
> >
> > >
> > > Alan Stern
>