Re: sudo x86info -a => kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:78!

From: Kees Cook
Date: Thu Mar 30 2017 - 12:45:33 EST


On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 11:44 PM, Tommi Rantala
<tommi.t.rantala@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Running:
>
> $ sudo x86info -a
>
> On this HP ZBook 15 G3 laptop kills the x86info process with segfault and
> produces the following kernel BUG.
>
> $ git describe
> v4.11-rc4-40-gfe82203
>
> It is also reproducible with the fedora kernel: 4.9.14-200.fc25.x86_64
>
> Full dmesg output here: https://pastebin.com/raw/Kur2mpZq
>
> [ 51.418954] usercopy: kernel memory exposure attempt detected from
> ffff880000090000 (dma-kmalloc-256) (4096 bytes)

This seems like a real exposure: the copy is attempting to read 4096
bytes from a 256 byte object.

> [...]
> [ 51.419063] Call Trace:
> [ 51.419066] read_mem+0x70/0x120
> [ 51.419069] __vfs_read+0x28/0x130
> [ 51.419072] ? security_file_permission+0x9b/0xb0
> [ 51.419075] ? rw_verify_area+0x4e/0xb0
> [ 51.419077] vfs_read+0x96/0x130
> [ 51.419079] SyS_read+0x46/0xb0
> [ 51.419082] ? SyS_lseek+0x87/0xb0
> [ 51.419085] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1a/0xa9

I can't reproduce this myself, so I assume it's some specific /proc or
/sys file that I don't have. Are you able to get a strace of x86info
as it runs to see which file it is attempting to read here?

Thanks!

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Pixel Security