netdev - Re: general protection fault in ethtool_get

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Message-ID: <YyOE4VPJAnnTODJ4@lunn.ch>
Date:   Thu, 15 Sep 2022 22:02:41 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Rondreis <linhaoguo86@...il.com>
Cc:     pabeni@...hat.com, huangguangbin2@...wei.com,
        john.fastabend@...il.com, hawk@...nel.org, trix@...hat.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: general protection fault in ethtool_get_drvinfo

On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 12:02:22AM +0800, Rondreis wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> When fuzzing the Linux kernel driver v6.0-rc4, the following crash was
> triggered.
> 
> HEAD commit: 7e18e42e4b280c85b76967a9106a13ca61c16179
> git tree: upstream
> 
> kernel config: https://pastebin.com/raw/xtrgsXP3
> C reproducer: https://pastebin.com/raw/RtX3naYU
> console output: https://pastebin.com/raw/HqjSMu2n
> 
> Basically, in the c reproducer, we use the gadget module to emulate
> attaching a USB device(vendor id: 0x1b3d, product id: 0x19c, with the
> midi function) and executing some simple sequence of system calls.
> To reproduce this crash, we utilize a third-party library to emulate
> the attaching process: https://github.com/linux-usb-gadgets/libusbgx.
> Just clone this repository, install it, and compile the c
> reproducer with ``` gcc crash.c -lusbgx -lconfig -o crash ``` will do
> the trick.
> 
> I would appreciate it if you have any idea how to solve this bug.
> 
> The crash report is as follows:
> general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address
> 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
> KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]
> CPU: 1 PID: 6495 Comm: systemd-udevd Not tainted 6.0.0-rc4+ #20
> Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS
> 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014
> RIP: 0010:ethtool_get_drvinfo+0x533/0x7d0 net/ethtool/ioctl.c:723

If this can be trusted:

723:		strlcpy(rsp->info.driver, dev->dev.parent->driver->name,
724:			sizeof(rsp->info.driver));

So it looks like dev->dev.parent->driver->name is invalid. That i
would say is a driver bug, a driver should always have a name.

What driver is dev->dev.parent->driver?

     Andrew