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Message-ID: <20250904162820.NS1U-oZp@linutronix.de>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2025 18:28:20 +0200
From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	syzbot <syzbot+034246a838a10d181e78@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
	andrealmeid@...lia.com, dave@...olabs.net, dvhart@...radead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...hat.com,
	syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com, tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: Re: [syzbot] [kernel?] general protection fault in try_to_wake_up (3)

On 2025-09-03 12:51:09 [-0600], Jens Axboe wrote:
> > The syz-reproducer lists only:
> > | timer_create(0x0, &(0x7f0000000080)={0x0, 0x11, 0x0, @thr={0x0, 0x0}}, &(0x7f0000000000))
> > | timer_settime(0x0, 0x0, &(0x7f0000000240)={{0x0, 0x8}, {0x0, 0x9}}, 0x0)
> > | futex(&(0x7f000000cffc), 0x80000000000b, 0x0, 0x0, &(0x7f0000048000), 0x0)
> > | futex(&(0x7f000000cffc), 0xc, 0x1, 0x0, &(0x7f0000048000), 0x0)
> > 
> > and that is probably why it can't come up with C-reproducer.
> > The whole log has (filtered) the following lines:
> > 
> > | io_uring_setup(0x85a, &(0x7f0000000180)={0x0, 0x58b9, 0x1, 0x2, 0x383})
> > | syz_io_uring_setup(0x88f, &(0x7f0000000300)={0x0, 0xaedf, 0x0, 0x0, 0x25d}, &(0x7f0000000140)=<r0=>0x0, &(0x7f0000000280)=<r1=>0x0)
> > | syz_memcpy_off$IO_URING_METADATA_GENERIC(r0, 0x4, &(0x7f0000000080)=0xfffffffc, 0x0, 0x4)
> > | syz_io_uring_submit(r0, r1, &(0x7f00000001c0)=@...ING_OP_RECVMSG={0xa, 0x8, 0x1, r2, 0x0, &(0x7f0000000440)={0x0, 0x0, 0x0}, 0x0, 0x40000020, 0x1, {0x2}})
> > 
> > This should explain the how the waiter got NULL. There is no private
> > flag so that is how they interact with each other.
> > Do we want this:
> > 
> > diff --git a/kernel/futex/requeue.c b/kernel/futex/requeue.c
> > index c716a66f86929..0c98256ebdcb7 100644
> > --- a/kernel/futex/requeue.c
> > +++ b/kernel/futex/requeue.c
> > @@ -312,6 +312,8 @@ futex_proxy_trylock_atomic(u32 __user *pifutex, struct futex_hash_bucket *hb1,
> >  	if (!top_waiter->rt_waiter || top_waiter->pi_state)
> >  		return -EINVAL;

I've been poking at this today and I have one problem with my
explanation:
The io_uring code initializes its futex_q with futex_q_init. At this
point futex_q::rt_waiter is set to NULL and never set to something else.
We should bail out here instead of going further.
Only the PI bits set rt_waiter. Only io_uring sets task to NULL.
I'm hopeless, this makes no sense.

> > +	if (!top_waiter->task)
> > +		-EINVAL;
> >  	/* Ensure we requeue to the expected futex. */
> >  	if (!futex_match(top_waiter->requeue_pi_key, key2))
> >  		return -EINVAL;
> > 

Sebastian