netdev - Re: mm/sched/net: BUG when running simple code

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Date:	Tue, 17 Jun 2014 07:30:14 +0300
From:	Dan Aloni <dan@...nelim.com>
To:	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
Cc:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: mm/sched/net: BUG when running simple code

On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 11:17:55PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On 06/13/2014 12:13 AM, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 12:01:37AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > another theory: Trinity can sometimes generate plausible looking module
> > addresses and pass those in structs etc.
> > 
> > I wonder if there's somewhere in that path that isn't checking that the address
> > in the optval it got is actually a userspace address before it tries to write to it.
> 
> It happened again, and this time I've left the kernel addresses in, and it's quite
> interesting:
> 
> [   88.837926] Call Trace:
> [   88.837926]  [<ffffffff9ff6a792>] __sock_create+0x292/0x3c0
> [   88.837926]  [<ffffffff9ff6a610>] ? __sock_create+0x110/0x3c0
> [   88.837926]  [<ffffffff9ff6a920>] sock_create+0x30/0x40
> [   88.837926]  [<ffffffff9ff6ad4c>] SyS_socket+0x2c/0x70
> [   88.837926]  [<ffffffffa0561c30>] ? tracesys+0x7e/0xe6
> [   88.837926]  [<ffffffffa0561c93>] tracesys+0xe1/0xe6
> 
> tracesys() seems to live inside a module space here?

I think it's more likely kASLR. The Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt doc needs updating.

-- 
Dan Aloni
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