Re: EBPF-triggered WARNING at mm/percpu.c:1361 in v4-14-rc2

[Mark Rutland]

On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 04:37:46PM +0200, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> On 09/28/2017 01:27 PM, Mark Rutland wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >While fuzzing v4.14-rc2 with Syzkaller, I found it was possible to trigger the
> >warning at mm/percpu.c:1361, on both arm64 and x86_64. This appears to require
> >increasing RLIMIT_MEMLOCK, so to the best of my knowledge this cannot be
> >triggered by an unprivileged user.
> >
> >I've included example splats for both x86_64 and arm64, along with a C
> >reproducer, inline below.
> >
> >It looks like dev_map_alloc() requests a percpu alloction of 32776 bytes, which
> >is larger than the maximum supported allocation size of 32768 bytes.
> >
> >I wonder if it would make more sense to pr_warn() for sizes that are too
> >large, so that callers don't have to roll their own checks against
> >PCPU_MIN_UNIT_SIZE?
> 
> Perhaps the pr_warn() should be ratelimited; or could there be an
> option where we only return NULL, not triggering a warn at all (which
> would likely be what callers might do anyway when checking against
> PCPU_MIN_UNIT_SIZE and then bailing out)?

Those both make sense to me; checking __GFP_NOWARN should be easy
enough.

Just to check, do you think that dev_map_alloc() should explicitly test
the size against PCPU_MIN_UNIT_SIZE, prior to calling pcpu_alloc()?

I can spin both patches if so.

Thanks,
Mark.