Re: general protection fault in kobject_get

From: Jason Gunthorpe
Date: Tue Mar 03 2020 - 15:30:50 EST


On Tue, Mar 03, 2020 at 09:25:58AM +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> +RDMA
>
> On Sun, Mar 01, 2020 at 09:12:11PM -0800, syzbot wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > syzbot found the following crash on:
> >
> > HEAD commit: 3b3e808c Merge tag 'mac80211-next-for-net-next-2020-02-24'..
> > git tree: net-next
> > console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=15e20a2de00000
> > kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=6ec9623400ee72
> > dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=46fe08363dbba223dec5
> > compiler: gcc (GCC) 9.0.0 20181231 (experimental)
> >
> > Unfortunately, I don't have any reproducer for this crash yet.
> >
> > IMPORTANT: if you fix the bug, please add the following tag to the commit:
> > Reported-by: syzbot+46fe08363dbba223dec5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hum, most probably something like this.. Will send a proper
patch. If it is this I am very surprised that it didn't get a
reproducer, as the fault should be pretty easy to hit, no race required..

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/user_mad.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/user_mad.c
index d1407fa378e832..e43ec710092a94 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/user_mad.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/user_mad.c
@@ -1129,17 +1129,30 @@ static const struct file_operations umad_sm_fops = {
.llseek = no_llseek,
};

+static struct ib_umad_port *get_port(struct ib_device *ibdev,
+ struct ib_umad_device *umad_dev,
+ unsigned int port)
+{
+ if (!umad_dev)
+ return ERR_PTR(-EOPNOTSUPP);
+ if (!rdma_is_port_valid(ibdev, port))
+ return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+ if (!rdma_cap_ib_mad(ibdev, port))
+ return ERR_PTR(-EOPNOTSUPP);
+
+ return &umad_dev->ports[port - rdma_start_port(ibdev)];
+}
+
static int ib_umad_get_nl_info(struct ib_device *ibdev, void *client_data,
struct ib_client_nl_info *res)
{
- struct ib_umad_device *umad_dev = client_data;
+ struct ib_umad_port *port = get_port(ibdev, client_data, res->port);

- if (!rdma_is_port_valid(ibdev, res->port))
- return -EINVAL;
+ if (IS_ERR(port))
+ return PTR_ERR(port);

res->abi = IB_USER_MAD_ABI_VERSION;
- res->cdev = &umad_dev->ports[res->port - rdma_start_port(ibdev)].dev;
-
+ res->cdev = &port->dev;
return 0;
}

@@ -1154,15 +1167,13 @@ MODULE_ALIAS_RDMA_CLIENT("umad");
static int ib_issm_get_nl_info(struct ib_device *ibdev, void *client_data,
struct ib_client_nl_info *res)
{
- struct ib_umad_device *umad_dev =
- ib_get_client_data(ibdev, &umad_client);
+ struct ib_umad_port *port = get_port(ibdev, client_data, res->port);

- if (!rdma_is_port_valid(ibdev, res->port))
- return -EINVAL;
+ if (IS_ERR(port))
+ return PTR_ERR(port);

res->abi = IB_USER_MAD_ABI_VERSION;
- res->cdev = &umad_dev->ports[res->port - rdma_start_port(ibdev)].sm_dev;
-
+ res->cdev = &port->sm_dev;
return 0;
}