netdev - Re: Stable backport request: skbuff: Proactively round up to kmalloc bucket size

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date: Wed, 24 May 2023 06:51:52 -0700
From: Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>
To: Daniel Díaz <daniel.diaz@...aro.org>,
 Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
 Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>, linux- stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
 open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
 "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
 "open list:NETWORKING [GENERAL]" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
 ndesaulniers@...gle.com, rientjes@...gle.com,
 Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: Stable backport request: skbuff: Proactively round up to kmalloc bucket size

On May 23, 2023 8:52:53 PM PDT, "Daniel Díaz" <daniel.diaz@...aro.org> wrote:
>Hello!
>
>On Tue, 23 May 2023 at 00:28, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz> wrote:
>> On 5/22/23 20:23, Daniel Díaz wrote:
>> > Hello!
>> >
>> > Would the stable maintainers please consider backporting the following
>> > commit to the 6.1? We are trying to build gki_defconfig (plus a few
>> > extras) on Arm64 and test it under Qemu-arm64, but it fails to boot.
>> > Bisection has pointed here.
>>
>> You mean the bisection was done to find the first "good" commit between 6.1
>> and e.g. 6.3?
>>
>> As others said, this commit wasn't expected to be a fix to a known bug.
>> Maybe you found one that we didn't know of, or it might be accidentaly
>> masking some other bug.
>
>How interesting! Yes, we happened to run a bisection between v6.1 and
>v6.3 and we found where it started working with the following
>configuration:
>  https://storage.tuxsuite.com/public/linaro/daniel/builds/2QA2CHQUpqKe27FyMZrBNILVwXi/config

Ah yes, from CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS=y and CONFIG_UBSAN_TRAP=y

This was a known issue in upstream, oddly only exposed on arm64. Something re-broke with __alloc_size after commit 93dd04ab0b2b had tried to work around it. I didn't think any kernel released with this broken, though, so perhaps what broke it got added to -stable?

>With that patch on top of v6.1.29 it boots fine under Qemu-arm64; as
>v6.1.y stands, it panics with this:

It should be fine to backport the patch, IMO.

-- 
Kees Cook