linux-kernel - Re: kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

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Message-ID: <CAGyP=7egSA4ZMwdjpYGwKAq=O4P9NzkKQO2ACr_VOUj68-vvzA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 10 Mar 2021 14:32:33 +0530
From:   Palash Oswal <oswalpalash@...il.com>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>,
        syzkaller-bugs <syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 7:58 PM Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> Lovely.  So something in that sequence of syscalls manages to trigger
> segfault in unrelated process.  What happens if you put it to sleep
> right after open_by_handle_at() (e.g. by read(2) from fd 0, etc.)?

Added read(2) call in the reproducer, and there's no longer a segfault
in systemd, but the process is still killed
  syscall(__NR_open_by_handle_at, r[0], 0x20000000ul, 0x2f00ul);
+  unsigned char buffer[1];
+  read(0, buffer, 1);
  return 0;

root@...dbox:~# gcc -pthread repro.c -o repro
root@...dbox:~# ./repro
[  450.676798] got to 221
[  450.676881] got to 183
[  450.677655] got to 201
[  450.678042] got to 208
[  450.678349] got to 210
[  450.681404] got to 270
[  450.707100] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
exitcode=0x0000000b
[  450.708393] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 5.11.2+ #22
[  450.709105] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996),
BIOS 1.14.0-1 04/01/2014
[  450.710117] Call Trace:
[  450.710440]  dump_stack+0xb2/0xe4
[  450.710902]  panic+0x196/0x502
[  450.711277]  do_exit.cold+0x70/0x108
[  450.711710]  do_group_exit+0x78/0x120
[  450.712161]  get_signal+0x22e/0xd60
[  450.712588]  arch_do_signal_or_restart+0xef/0x890
[  450.713165]  exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x102/0x190
[  450.713744]  irqentry_exit_to_user_mode+0x9/0x20
[  450.714340]  irqentry_exit+0x19/0x30
[  450.714817]  exc_page_fault+0xc3/0x240
[  450.715275]  ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x8/0x30
[  450.715805]  asm_exc_page_fault+0x1e/0x30
[  450.716295] RIP: 0033:0x7febb8036f10
[  450.716738] Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at RIP 0x7febb8036ee6.
[  450.717512] RSP: 002b:00007ffd91fec2f8 EFLAGS: 00010246
[  450.718139] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 000055c6cc268f40 RCX: 00007febb80672e3
[  450.719030] RDX: 00007ffd91fec480 RSI: 00007ffd91fec5b0 RDI: 0000000000000007
[  450.719877] RBP: 0000000000000007 R08: 431bde82d7b634db R09: 000000000000000b
[  450.720681] R10: 00000000ffffffff R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffd927eb4d0
[  450.721527] R13: 0000000000000001 R14: ffffffffffffffff R15: 0000000000000002
[  450.722470] Kernel Offset: disabled
[  450.722941] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill
init! exitcode=0x0000000b ]---

Added a hb at panic() and here's the backtrace from gdb:
(gdb) hb kernel/panic.c:177
Hardware assisted breakpoint 1 at 0xffffffff82201bd7: file
kernel/panic.c, line 178.
(gdb) c
Continuing.
Thread 1 hit Breakpoint 1, panic (fmt=fmt@...ry=0xffffffff82bcd850
"Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x%08x\n") at kernel/panic.c:178
178    {
(gdb) bt
#0  panic (fmt=fmt@...ry=0xffffffff82bcd850 "Attempted to kill init!
exitcode=0x%08x\n") at kernel/panic.c:178
#1  0xffffffff822025a3 in do_exit (code=code@...ry=11) at kernel/exit.c:794
#2  0xffffffff810e6e98 in do_group_exit (exit_code=11) at kernel/exit.c:922
#3  0xffffffff810febae in get_signal
(ksig=ksig@...ry=0xffffc90000013e38) at kernel/signal.c:2773
#4  0xffffffff8104fa8f in arch_do_signal_or_restart
(regs=0xffffc90000013f58, has_signal=<optimized out>) at
arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:831
#5  0xffffffff811a0602 in handle_signal_work (ti_work=<optimized out>,
regs=0xffffc90000013f58) at kernel/entry/common.c:147
#6  exit_to_user_mode_loop (ti_work=<optimized out>, regs=<optimized
out>) at kernel/entry/common.c:171
#7  exit_to_user_mode_prepare (regs=0xffffc90000013f58) at
kernel/entry/common.c:201
#8  0xffffffff8227a299 in irqentry_exit_to_user_mode (regs=<optimized
out>) at kernel/entry/common.c:307
#9  0xffffffff8227a2c9 in irqentry_exit
(regs=regs@...ry=0xffffc90000013f58, state=..., state@...ry=...) at
kernel/entry/common.c:395
#10 0xffffffff82279c83 in exc_page_fault (regs=0xffffc90000013f58,
error_code=20) at arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1509
#11 0xffffffff82400ade in asm_exc_page_fault () at
./arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:580
#12 0x0000000000000002 in fixed_percpu_data ()
#13 0xffffffffffffffff in ?? ()
#14 0x0000000000000001 in fixed_percpu_data ()
#15 0x00007ffdef6e1480 in ?? ()
#16 0x0000000000000007 in fixed_percpu_data ()
#17 0x000055a7e97caf40 in ?? ()
#18 0x0000000000000246 in ?? ()
#19 0x00000000ffffffff in ?? ()
#20 0x000000000000000b in fixed_percpu_data ()
#21 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()