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Date:   Tue, 16 Mar 2021 17:28:24 +0100
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Cc:     Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        syzbot <syzbot+0b06ef9b44d00d600183@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        syzkaller-bugs <syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com>,
        Uwe Kleine-König 
        <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [syzbot] kernel panic: corrupted stack end in openat

On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 5:13 PM Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 5:03 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 4:51 PM Russell King - ARM Linux admin
> > <linux@...linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 04:44:45PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 11:17 AM Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com> wrote:
> > > > > The compiler is gcc version 10.2.1 20210110 (Debian 10.2.1-6)
> > > >
> > > > Ok, building with Ubuntu 10.2.1-1ubuntu1 20201207 locally, that's
> > > > the closest I have installed, and I think the Debian and Ubuntu versions
> > > > are generally quite close in case of gcc since they are maintained by
> > > > the same packagers.
> > >
> > > ... which shouldn't be a problem - that's just over 1/4 of the stack
> > > space. Could it be the syzbot's gcc is doing something weird and
> > > inflating the stack frames?
> >
> > It's possible, I think that's really unlikely given that it's just Debian's
> > gcc, which is as close to mainline as the version I was using.
> >
> > Uwe's DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW patch from a while ago might
> > help if this was the problem though:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20200108082913.29710-1-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de/
> >
> > My best guess is something going wrong in the interrupt
> > that triggered the preempt_schedule() which ended up calling
> > task_stack_end_corrupted() in schedule_debug(), as you suggested
> > earlier.
>
> FWIW I see slightly larger frames with the config:
>
> 073ab64 <ima_calc_field_array_hash_tfm>:
> 8073ab64:       e1a0c00d        mov     ip, sp
> 8073ab68:       e92ddff0        push    {r4, r5, r6, r7, r8, r9, sl,
> fp, ip, lr, pc}
> 8073ab6c:       e24cb004        sub     fp, ip, #4
> 8073ab70:       e24ddfa7        sub     sp, sp, #668    ; 0x29c

Yes, this is the one that the compiler complained about when warning
for stack over 600 bytes. It's not called in this call chain though.

> page_alloc can also do reclaim, I had the impression that reclaim can
> be quite heavy-weight in all respects.

Yes, that is another possibility. What writable file systems or swap
do you normally have mounted that it could be writing to, and on
what storage device?

       Arnd