linux-kernel - Re: [syzbot] [mm?] kernel BUG in sg_init

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Message-ID: <20240318213257.GB4210@cmpxchg.org>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:32:57 -0400
From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To: Barry Song <21cnbao@...il.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@...gle.com>, Nhat Pham <nphamcs@...il.com>,
	syzbot <syzbot+adbc983a1588b7805de3@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, chengming.zhou@...ux.dev,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com, Barry Song <v-songbaohua@...o.com>
Subject: Re: [syzbot] [mm?] kernel BUG in sg_init_one

On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 10:15:43AM +1300, Barry Song wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 10:10 AM Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 01:17:19PM -0700, Yosry Ahmed wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 11:00 AM Nhat Pham <nphamcs@...il.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 9:58 AM syzbot
> > > > <syzbot+adbc983a1588b7805de3@...kaller.appspotmail.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > >
> > > > > syzbot found the following issue on:
> > > > >
> > > > > HEAD commit:    e5eb28f6d1af Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2024-03-14-09-36' ..
> > > > > git tree:       upstream
> > > > > console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=13043abe180000
> > > > > kernel config:  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=19bb57c23dffc38e
> > > > > dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=adbc983a1588b7805de3
> > > > > compiler:       arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc (Debian 12.2.0-14) 12.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.40
> > > > > userspace arch: arm
> > > > > syz repro:      https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?x=1706d231180000
> > > > > C reproducer:   https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.c?x=13ba7959180000
> > > > >
> > > > > Downloadable assets:
> > > > > disk image (non-bootable): https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/8ead8862021c/non_bootable_disk-e5eb28f6.raw.xz
> > > > > vmlinux: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/0a7371c63ff2/vmlinux-e5eb28f6.xz
> > > > > kernel image: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/7539441b4add/zImage-e5eb28f6.xz
> > > > >
> > > > > IMPORTANT: if you fix the issue, please add the following tag to the commit:
> > > > > Reported-by: syzbot+adbc983a1588b7805de3@...kaller.appspotmail.com
> > > > >
> > > > > ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > > > > kernel BUG at include/linux/scatterlist.h:187!
> > > >
> > > > Looks like the provided buffer is invalid:
> > > >
> > > > #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_SG
> > > > BUG_ON(!virt_addr_valid(buf));
> > > > #endif
> > > >
> > > > which is "src" from:
> > > >
> > > > sg_init_one(&input, src, entry->length);
> > > >
> > > > Looking at the surrounding code and recent history, there's this
> > > > commit that stands out:
> > > >
> > > > mm/zswap: remove the memcpy if acomp is not sleepable
> > > > (sha: 270700dd06ca41a4779c19eb46608f076bb7d40e)
> > > >
> > > > which has the effect of, IIUC, using the zpool mapped memory directly
> > > > as src, instead of acomp_ctx->buffer (which was previously the case,
> > > > as zsmalloc was not sleepable).
> > > >
> > > > This might not necessarily be a bug with that commit itself, but might
> > > > have revealed another bug elsewhere.
> > > >
> > > > Anyway, cc-ing the author, Barry Song, to fact check me :) Will take a
> > > > closer look later.
> > >
> > > I am not a highmem expert, but the reproducer has CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y,
> > > and it seems like zs_map_object() may return a highmem address if the
> > > compressed object is entirely in a single page to avoid copying to a
> > > buffer:
> > >
> > > if (off + class->size <= PAGE_SIZE) {
> > >    /* this object is contained entirely within a page */
> > >    area->vm_addr = kmap_atomic(page);
> > >    ret = area->vm_addr + off;
> > >    goto out;
> > > }
> > >
> > > The virt_addr_valid() check seems to indicate that we expect a direct
> > > map address in sg_init_one(), right?
> >
> > If the page is highmem, kmap_atomic() establishes a temporary mapping
> > to it in the direct map, such that we have a legit kernel pointer to
> > the memory. Otherwise the memcpy() in zswap also wouldn't work... Am I
> > missing something?
> 
> Right, we built a map but it is not a linear mapping. so we can't use
> virt_to_page
> on this kind of non-linear mapping.
> kmap_to_page can handle both linear and non-linear, but  Ira's commit
> added a WARN_ON_ONCE in it for non-linear mapping case.

Ah, I misread what virt_addr_valid() does. It actually excludes
kmap. Which, yes, makes sense, if the next line does virt_to_page()...

Sorry about the noise.