linux-kernel - Re: general protection fault in kernfs_add

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Date:   Wed, 20 Nov 2019 00:03:00 +0100
From:   Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     syzbot <syzbot+db1637662f412ac0d556@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
        Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Rafael Wysocki <rafael@...nel.org>,
        syzkaller-bugs <syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        linux-bluetooth <linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: general protection fault in kernfs_add_one

Hi Linus,

> So looking at the decode, as usual the noise generated by KASAN isn't
> being very helpful, but it does look like at least one of the reports
> (I picked 5.2 because I don't care about 4.19 etc) is because
> 'kernfs_root(kn) is NULL in kernfs_add_one().
> 
> Looking at the reports, every single one seems to have a call chain
> that comes from vhci_write() -> vhci_get_user() ->
> vhci_create_device() -> __vhci_create_device() -> hci_register_dev()
> -> device_add() -> kobject_add().
> 
> (In this case, "every single one" is by looking at the last 10 reports
> sorted by date, it wasn't exhaustive).
> 
> The way it got into 'write()' can be a bit varied (splice, write, whatever).
> 
> That makes me think it's bluetooth that is the problem, but it might
> be an effect of how syzbot groups the reports too, of course.
> 
> Might the device have been added at the same time that the last
> previous device was removed, so that the parent was deleted as the new
> device was aded? I dunno. The repro seem to be a repeated "open
> /dev/vhci, write two random bytes to it"
> 
> Or might it be some "it happens after you've added enough devices that
> something overflows" issue?

long time ago there used to be an issue with quick device remove / device add operations, but that was fixed. I am just too fuzzy on the details since it has been a while.

We also haven’t touched our sysfs integration in a while and Bluetooth support is so old that this might have been bit-rotting.

I need to run the re-producer myself and see if something stands out that I can spot.

Regards

Marcel