kernel: signal: NULL ptr deref when killing process

[Sasha Levin]

Hi all,

While fuzzing with trinity inside a KVM tools guest running the latest -next
kernel, I've stumbled on the following spew:

[  512.602559] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000001c
[  512.602566] IP: check_kill_permission (kernel/signal.c:746 kernel/signal.c:781)
[  512.602576] PGD 4c10d0067 PUD 4c1738067 PMD 0
[  512.602584] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
[  512.602612] Dumping ftrace buffer:
[  512.602697]    (ftrace buffer empty)
[  512.602704] Modules linked in:
[  512.602708] CPU: 18 PID: 8516 Comm: trinity-watchdo Tainted: G    B          3.16.0-next-20140815-sasha-00034-g615561b #1071
[  512.602711] task: ffff8804c1e88000 ti: ffff8804c1290000 task.ti: ffff8804c1290000
[  512.602718] RIP: check_kill_permission (kernel/signal.c:746 kernel/signal.c:781)
[  512.602720] RSP: 0018:ffff8804c1293e00  EFLAGS: 00010246
[  512.602722] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8804c1293ec0 RCX: 0000000000000000
[  512.602723] RDX: ffff880546803000 RSI: ffff8804c1293ec0 RDI: 0000000000000000
[  512.602726] RBP: ffff8804c1293e28 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[  512.602728] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: ffff880546803000
[  512.602729] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff8804c3fe4200
[  512.602732] FS:  00007fb2ed5e8700(0000) GS:ffff88071c400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[  512.602735] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
[  512.602737] CR2: 000000000000001c CR3: 00000004c16ff000 CR4: 00000000000006a0
[  512.602750] DR0: 00000000006f0000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[  512.602753] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000600
[  512.602754] Stack:
[  512.602761]  00000000000026ce 0000000000000000 ffff8804c1293ec0 ffff880546803000
[  512.602769]  0000000000000002 ffff8804c1293e60 ffffffff8c17ccb5 ffffffff8c17cc55
[  512.602777]  00000000000026ce ffff880565319180 0000000000000000 ffff8804c1293ec0
[  512.602779] Call Trace:
[  512.602786] group_send_sig_info (kernel/signal.c:1300)
[  512.602791] ? group_send_sig_info (kernel/signal.c:1296)
[  512.602795] kill_pid_info (kernel/signal.c:1338)
[  512.602800] ? kill_pid_info (kernel/signal.c:1330)
[  512.602805] SYSC_kill (kernel/signal.c:1423 kernel/signal.c:2896)
[  512.602809] ? SYSC_kill (include/linux/rcupdate.h:814 kernel/signal.c:1422 kernel/signal.c:2896)
[  512.602814] ? _raw_spin_unlock (./arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:98 include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:152 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:183)
[  512.602820] ? trace_hardirqs_on (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2609)
[  512.602824] ? syscall_trace_enter (include/linux/context_tracking.h:27 arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c:1461)
[  512.602828] SyS_kill (kernel/signal.c:2886)
[  512.602833] tracesys (arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:541)
[ 512.602921] Code: 06 00 4d 8b b4 24 38 0a 00 00 65 48 8b 04 25 c0 da 00 00 4c 8b b8 40 0a 00 00 e8 ab e3 06 00 85 c0 0f 85 8b 00 00 00 41 8b 47 24 <41> 8b 56 1c 39 d0 74 60 41 8b 4e 14 39 c8 74 58 41 8b 47 14 39
All code
========
   0:	06                   	(bad)
   1:	00 4d 8b             	add    %cl,-0x75(%rbp)
   4:	b4 24                	mov    $0x24,%ah
   6:	38 0a                	cmp    %cl,(%rdx)
   8:	00 00                	add    %al,(%rax)
   a:	65 48 8b 04 25 c0 da 	mov    %gs:0xdac0,%rax
  11:	00 00
  13:	4c 8b b8 40 0a 00 00 	mov    0xa40(%rax),%r15
  1a:	e8 ab e3 06 00       	callq  0x6e3ca
  1f:	85 c0                	test   %eax,%eax
  21:	0f 85 8b 00 00 00    	jne    0xb2
  27:	41 8b 47 24          	mov    0x24(%r15),%eax
  2b:*	41 8b 56 1c          	mov    0x1c(%r14),%edx		<-- trapping instruction
  2f:	39 d0                	cmp    %edx,%eax
  31:	74 60                	je     0x93
  33:	41 8b 4e 14          	mov    0x14(%r14),%ecx
  37:	39 c8                	cmp    %ecx,%eax
  39:	74 58                	je     0x93
  3b:	41 8b 47 14          	mov    0x14(%r15),%eax
  3f:	39 00                	cmp    %eax,(%rax)

Code starting with the faulting instruction
===========================================
   0:	41 8b 56 1c          	mov    0x1c(%r14),%edx
   4:	39 d0                	cmp    %edx,%eax
   6:	74 60                	je     0x68
   8:	41 8b 4e 14          	mov    0x14(%r14),%ecx
   c:	39 c8                	cmp    %ecx,%eax
   e:	74 58                	je     0x68
  10:	41 8b 47 14          	mov    0x14(%r15),%eax
  14:	39 00                	cmp    %eax,(%rax)
[  512.602927] RIP check_kill_permission (kernel/signal.c:746 kernel/signal.c:781)
[  512.602929]  RSP <ffff8804c1293e00>
[  512.602931] CR2: 000000000000001c


Thanks,
Sasha
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