Re: [syzbot] WARNING in ex_handler_fprestore

From: Yu, Yu-cheng
Date: Wed May 26 2021 - 17:21:44 EST


On 5/26/2021 12:00 AM, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 2:33 AM Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 5/24/21 1:51 AM, syzbot wrote:
Hello,

syzbot found the following issue on:

HEAD commit: 45af60e7 Merge tag 'for-5.13-rc2-tag' of git://git.kernel...
git tree: upstream
console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=1591e9f7d00000
kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=18fade5827eb74f7
dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=2067e764dbcd10721e2e
compiler: Debian clang version 11.0.1-2
syz repro: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?x=11be6bd1d00000

Hi syz people and x86 people-

I entirely believe that this bug is real and that syzbot bisected it
correctly, but I'm puzzled by the reproducer. It says:

ptrace$setregs(0xd, r0, 0x0, &(0x7f0000000080))

I would really, really expect this to result from PTRACE_SETREGSET or
PTRACE_SETFPREGS, but this is PTRACE_SETREGS.

Am I missing something really obvious here?

Hi Andy,

Sometimes syzkaller uses data format from one syscall variant, but
actually invokes another.
But here it does _not_ seem to be the case: 0xd is actually
PTRACE_SETREGS. And the other ptrace calls in the reproducer are
PTRACE_SEIZE and PTRACE_SINGLESTEP.
So I would assume somehow it happened with PTRACE_SETREGS.
Is there any indication from hardware as to what's wrong with fpregs?


PTRACE_SETREGS can change segment registers. The PTRACE_SETREGS is using some uninitialized memory area. One possibility would be that XRSTORS has a memory operand outside of segment limits.