linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] usb: core: urb: change a dev_WARN() to dev

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Date:   Mon, 10 Feb 2020 16:11:10 -0500 (EST)
From:   Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
cc:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        syzbot <syzbot+1bc2c2afd44f820a669f@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
        <andreyknvl@...gle.com>, <ingrassia@...genesys.com>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
        <syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: core: urb: change a dev_WARN() to dev_err() for
 syzbot

On Mon, 10 Feb 2020, Greg KH wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 08:06:52AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > We changed this from dev_err() to dev_WARN() in commit 0cb54a3e47cb
> > ("USB: debugging code shouldn't alter control flow").
> > 
> > The difference between dev_WARN() and dev_err() is that dev_WARN()
> > prints a stack trace and if you have panic on OOPS enabled then it leads
> > to a panic.  The dev_err() function just prints the error message.
> > 
> > Back in the day we didn't have usb emulators fuzz testing the kernel
> > so dev_WARN() didn't cause a problem for anyone, but these days the
> > dev_WARN() interferes with syzbot so let's change this to a dev_err().
> > 
> > Reported-by: syzbot+1bc2c2afd44f820a669f@...kaller.appspotmail.com
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
> > ---
> > 
> >  drivers/usb/core/urb.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/urb.c b/drivers/usb/core/urb.c
> > index da923ec17612..0980c1d2253d 100644
> > --- a/drivers/usb/core/urb.c
> > +++ b/drivers/usb/core/urb.c
> > @@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ int usb_submit_urb(struct urb *urb, gfp_t mem_flags)
> >  
> >  	/* Check that the pipe's type matches the endpoint's type */
> >  	if (usb_urb_ep_type_check(urb))
> > -		dev_WARN(&dev->dev, "BOGUS urb xfer, pipe %x != type %x\n",
> > +		dev_err(&dev->dev, "BOGUS urb xfer, pipe %x != type %x\n",
> >  			usb_pipetype(urb->pipe), pipetypes[xfertype]);
> 
> Like others said, we should have the stack trace here.  So can you
> change this to dev_warn() and a stacktrace?

In fact we want both a stack trace and a syzbot notification, because 
this particular error indicates a bug in a kernel driver.  Therefore 
dev_WARN is appropriate.

Alan Stern

> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h