linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] fs: nilfs2: Null dereference in nilfs_grab

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Message-ID: <CAKFNMo=gWHLJU0KyM-YES=qk-yZEAxBEFDTzuN50zFttRZ4ceQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 7 Nov 2022 00:27:32 +0900
From:   Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@...il.com>
To:     wuhoipok@...il.com
Cc:     linux-nilfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] fs: nilfs2: Null dereference in nilfs_grab_buffer

On Sun, Nov 6, 2022 at 11:58 PM wrote:
>
> Hi, upon my investigation of a bug reported by syzbot with the following link.
>
> https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=c7c4748e11ffcc367cef04f76e02e931833cbd24
>
> By enabling event tracing running the c repro, touch_buffer(bh) would panic
> the kernel with handling NULL pointer dereference, it is because the
> buffer_header does not have a block device pointing to. The problem is that I
> do not know if this is a defined behaviour of buffer_header, I am
> inexperienced here. I would post the panic message down here.
>
> [  155.995180][ T6861] loop0: detected capacity change from 0 to 2048
> [  156.018325][ T6861] NILFS (loop0): broken superblock, retrying with spare
> superblock (blocksize = 1024)
> [  156.089921][ T6861] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
> virtual address 0000000000000024
> [  156.091476][ T6861] Mem abort info:
> [  156.092114][ T6861]   ESR = 0x0000000096000006
> [  156.096162][ T6861]   EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
> [  156.100850][ T6861]   SET = 0, FnV = 0
> [  156.104732][ T6861]   EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
> [  156.108397][ T6861]   FSC = 0x06: level 2 translation fault
> [  156.113937][ T6861] Data abort info:
> [  156.120935][ T6861]   ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000006
> [  156.127581][ T6861]   CM = 0, WnR = 0
> [  156.134563][ T6861] user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs,
> pgdp=000000011353c000
> [  156.141306][ T6861] [0000000000000024] pgd=080000010d35a003,
> p4d=080000010d35a003, pud=080000010ecfb003, pmd=0000000000000000
> [  156.149362][ T6861] Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000006 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
> [  156.155439][ T6861] Modules linked in:
> [  156.160673][ T6861] CPU: 6 PID: 6861 Comm: repro Not tainted 6.1.0-rc3-
> next-20221104 #38
> [  156.164042][ T6861] Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
> [  156.169001][ T6861] pstate: 00400005 (nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS
> BTYPE=--)
> [  156.174568][ T6861] pc : trace_event_raw_event_block_buffer+0x64/0xc0
> [  156.180880][ T6861] lr : trace_event_raw_event_block_buffer+0x54/0xc0
> [  156.184271][ T6861] sp : ffff80000fe73810
> [  156.187185][ T6861] x29: ffff80000fe73810 x28: 0000000000000000 x27:
> 00000000000000c0
> [  156.191900][ T6861] x26: 0000000000000000 x25: 0000000000000000 x24:
> 0000000000000000
> [  156.197326][ T6861] x23: ffff0000cd36ce00 x22: ffff80000bd49000 x21:
> ffff80000bd49368
> [  156.202531][ T6861] x20: ffff0000c00c6580 x19: ffff0000cdf172a0 x18:
> 0000000000000000
> [  156.208112][ T6861] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000519 x15:
> 0000000000000001
> [  156.212665][ T6861] x14: 0000000000000002 x13: 00000000000278a7 x12:
> 0000000000100000
> [  156.217123][ T6861] x11: 0000000000100000 x10: 0000000000000000 x9 :
> ffff80000ce98000
> [  156.222096][ T6861] x8 : ffff80000fe73768 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 :
> 000000000de4379f
> [  156.227209][ T6861] x5 : 0000000000000020 x4 : 000000000024ba04 x3 :
> 0000000000000000
> [  156.231371][ T6861] x2 : ffff0000d320ed9c x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 :
> ffff80000fe73838
> [  156.236095][ T6861] Call trace:
> [  156.240201][ T6861]  trace_event_raw_event_block_buffer+0x64/0xc0
> [  156.243814][ T6861]  __traceiter_block_touch_buffer+0x38/0x54
> [  156.246562][ T6861]  touch_buffer+0x128/0x1b0
> [  156.249087][ T6861]  nilfs_grab_buffer+0xb8/0x200
> [  156.251763][ T6861]  nilfs_mdt_submit_block+0x4c/0x470
> [  156.254103][ T6861]  nilfs_mdt_read_block+0x44/0x154
> [  156.256216][ T6861]  nilfs_mdt_get_block+0x58/0x520
> [  156.258450][ T6861]  nilfs_sufile_read+0x104/0x220
> [  156.260480][ T6861]  load_nilfs+0x25c/0x4e0
> [  156.262535][ T6861]  nilfs_mount+0x3f0/0x624
> [  156.264678][ T6861]  legacy_get_tree+0x30/0x60
> [  156.266801][ T6861]  vfs_get_tree+0x28/0xf0
> [  156.270048][ T6861]  path_mount+0x3dc/0xbb0
> [  156.273158][ T6861]  __arm64_sys_mount+0x204/0x2dc
> [  156.276088][ T6861]  invoke_syscall+0x48/0x114
> [  156.279141][ T6861]  el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xfc/0x11c
> [  156.282159][ T6861]  do_el0_svc+0x2c/0xd0
> [  156.285177][ T6861]  el0_svc+0x50/0x140
> [  156.288452][ T6861]  el0t_64_sync_handler+0xf4/0x120
> [  156.291375][ T6861]  el0t_64_sync+0x18c/0x190
> [  156.294203][ T6861] Code: aa0003e2 b4000140 f9401a61 9100a3e0 (b9402421)
> [  156.298191][ T6861] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
> [  156.301621][ T6861] Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops: Fatal exception
> [  156.304165][ T6861] SMP: stopping secondary CPUs
> [  156.306561][ T6861] Kernel Offset: disabled
> [  156.308120][ T6861] CPU features: 0x00000,00070084,6601720b
> [  156.309695][ T6861] Memory Limit: none
> [  156.311323][ T6861] Rebooting in 86400 seconds..
>
> Any help would be appreciated, Thank you!

Thank you for your feedback.

I'm also now investigating the cause of the NULL pointer dereference
in nilfs_segctor_prepare_write() but didn't know this.  Which one I
fix first depends on the situation, but anyway I'll put this in my
queue as well.

Thanks,
Ryusuke Konishi