linux-kernel - Re: [syzbot] KASAN: invalid-access Read in copy

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Date:   Tue, 6 Sep 2022 17:23:39 +0100
From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:     Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...il.com>
Cc:     Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        syzkaller-bugs <syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com>,
        tongtiangen@...wei.com,
        Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com>,
        Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        syzbot <syzbot+c2c79c6d6eddc5262b77@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
        Evgenii Stepanov <eugenis@...gle.com>,
        Peter Collingbourne <pcc@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [syzbot] KASAN: invalid-access Read in copy_page

On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 04:39:57PM +0200, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2022 at 4:29 PM Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com> wrote:
> > > > Does it take long to reproduce this kasan warning?
> > >
> > > syzbot finds several such cases every day (200 crashes for the past 35 days):
> > > https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=c2c79c6d6eddc5262b77
> > > So once it reaches the tested tree, we should have an answer within a day.
> 
> To be specific, this syzkaller instance fuzzes the mainline, so the
> patch with the WARN_ON needs to end up there.
> 
> If this is unacceptable, perhaps, we could switch the MTE syzkaller
> instance to the arm64 testing tree.

It needs some more digging first. My first guess was that a PROT_MTE
page was mapped into the user address space and the task repainted it
but I don't think that's the case.

> > That's good to know. BTW, does syzkaller write tags in mmap'ed pages or
> > only issues random syscalls?
> 
> syzkaller doesn't write tags. Or, at least, shouldn't. Theoretically
> it could come up with same way to generate instructions that write
> tags, but this is unlikely.

Yeah. And colouring an entire page with the same tag is even less
likely.

> > I'm trying to figure out whether tag 0xf2
> > was written by the kernel without updating the corresponding
> > page_kasan_tag() or it was syzkaller recolouring the page.
> 
> Just in case, I want to point out that the kasantag == 0xa from the
> page flags matches the pointer tag 0xf5 in the report. The tag value
> is stored bitwise-inverted in the page flags. Not that this matters in
> this case though.

Yes, I'm aware of this. So copy_page() tries to read from
page_address(src) with kasantag == 0xa (real tag 0xf5) while the
in-memory tag is 0xf2. Since the user didn't repaint the page, I'm
trying to figure out what set the tags to 0xf2 while leaving the
page_kasan_tag() to 0xf5. Some of the page_kasan_tag_reset() calls in
the past could have hidden a different issue.

Since I can't find the kernel boot log for these runs, is there any kind
of swap enabled? I'm trying to narrow down where the problem may be.

-- 
Catalin