Re: KASAN: use-after-free Read in alloc_pid

From: Eric Biggers
Date: Mon Apr 02 2018 - 23:10:03 EST


On Mon, Apr 02, 2018 at 06:00:57PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> syzbot <syzbot+7a1cff37dbbef9e7ba4c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > syzbot hit the following crash on upstream commit
> > 9dd2326890d89a5179967c947dab2bab34d7ddee (Fri Mar 30 17:29:47 2018 +0000)
> > Merge tag 'ceph-for-4.16-rc8' of git://github.com/ceph/ceph-client
> > syzbot dashboard link:
> > https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=7a1cff37dbbef9e7ba4c
> >
> > So far this crash happened 4 times on upstream.
> >
> > Unfortunately, I don't have any reproducer for this crash yet.
>
> Do you have any of the other traces? This looks like a something is
> calling put_pid_ns more than it is calling get_pid_ns causing a
> reference count mismatch.
>
> If this is not: 9ee332d99e4d5a97548943b81c54668450ce641b
>
> I could use a few more hints to help narrow down what is going wrong.
>
> It would be nice to know what the other 3 crashes looked like and
> exactly which upstream they were on.
>

The other crashes are shown on the syzbot dashboard (link was given in the
original email).

Eric