Re: perf/ring-buffer: Undefined behaviour in kernel/events/ring_buffer.c:685:22

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Thu Jan 21 2016 - 18:36:10 EST


On 01/19/2016 09:31 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 03:55:13PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> While fuzzing with trinity inside a KVM tools guest, running the latest -next
>> kernel, I've hit the following warning:
>>
>> [ 3494.030114] UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in kernel/events/ring_buffer.c:685:22
>> [ 3494.030647] shift exponent -1 is negative
>
> That's rb->page_order == -1, which should 'never' happen, curious!
>
> Funny though that rb::page_order is the exact field _after_ rb::work, ho
> humm.
>

I've tested your theory using:

diff --git a/kernel/events/internal.h b/kernel/events/internal.h
index 2bbad9c..f627a40 100644
--- a/kernel/events/internal.h
+++ b/kernel/events/internal.h
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ struct ring_buffer {
struct irq_work irq_work;
#ifdef CONFIG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
struct work_struct work;
+ unsigned long dummy;
int page_order; /* allocation order */
#endif
int nr_pages; /* nr of data pages */
diff --git a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
index adfdc05..65346f8 100644
--- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
@@ -682,6 +682,8 @@ void rb_free(struct ring_buffer *rb)
#else
static int data_page_nr(struct ring_buffer *rb)
{
+ if (page_order(rb) < 0 || rb->dummy)
+ pr_emerg("*** %lx\n", rb->dummy);
return rb->nr_pages << page_order(rb);
}

But the output I'm seeing indicates that dummy isn't corrupted:

[ 758.806091] *** 0
[ 758.806821] ================================================================================
[ 758.807961] UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in kernel/events/ring_buffer.c:687:22
[ 758.808833] shift exponent -1 is negative
[...]


Thanks,
Sasha