Re: WARNING in input_alloc_absinfo

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 05:47:03AM -0700, syzbot wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> syzbot found the following crash on:
> 
> HEAD commit:    d2d741e5d189 kmsan: add initialization for shmem pages
> git tree:       https://github.com/google/kmsan.git/master
> console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=1775bae7800000
> kernel config:  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=48f9de3384bcd0f
> dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=c382812c78d98ecd9fb8
> compiler:       clang version 7.0.0 (trunk 329391)
> syzkaller repro:https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?x=13b31ae7800000
> C reproducer:   https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.c?x=1733255b800000
> 
> IMPORTANT: if you fix the bug, please add the following tag to the commit:
> Reported-by: syzbot+c382812c78d98ecd9fb8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> RBP: 00000000006cb018 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 00007ffe93080031
> R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000004
> R13: ffffffffffffffff R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> input_alloc_absinfo(): kcalloc() failed?
> WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 4498 at drivers/input/input.c:487
> input_alloc_absinfo+0x183/0x190 drivers/input/input.c:487
> Kernel panic - not syncing: panic_on_warn set ...

Hmm, so there is not really a problem as far as I am concerned. We do
generate a warning if we can't allocate memory for absinfo,  as this is
really unexpected, but the case is handled properly by the callers so
there is no reason for us to go belly up here.

> 
> CPU: 1 PID: 4498 Comm: syz-executor465 Not tainted 4.16.0+ #87
> Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS
> Google 01/01/2011
> Call Trace:
>  __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:17 [inline]
>  dump_stack+0x185/0x1d0 lib/dump_stack.c:53
>  panic+0x39d/0x940 kernel/panic.c:183
>  __warn+0x40f/0x580 kernel/panic.c:547
>  report_bug+0x72a/0x880 lib/bug.c:186
>  fixup_bug arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:179 [inline]
>  do_error_trap+0x1aa/0x600 arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:297
>  do_invalid_op+0x46/0x50 arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:316
>  invalid_op+0x1b/0x40 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:986
> RIP: 0010:input_alloc_absinfo+0x183/0x190 drivers/input/input.c:487
> RSP: 0018:ffff88019651faa8 EFLAGS: 00010282
> RAX: 0000000000000028 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
> RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: aaaaaaaaaaaab000 RDI: ffffea0000000000
> RBP: ffff88019651fae0 R08: 0000000001080020 R09: 0000000000000002
> R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
> R13: ffff8801a19ec140 R14: ffff88019796e198 R15: 0000000000000000
>  uinput_abs_setup drivers/input/misc/uinput.c:507 [inline]
>  uinput_ioctl_handler+0x38a2/0x39f0 drivers/input/misc/uinput.c:1035
>  uinput_ioctl+0x9a/0xb0 drivers/input/misc/uinput.c:1047
>  vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:46 [inline]
>  do_vfs_ioctl+0xaf0/0x2440 fs/ioctl.c:686
>  SYSC_ioctl+0x1d2/0x260 fs/ioctl.c:701
>  SyS_ioctl+0x54/0x80 fs/ioctl.c:692
>  do_syscall_64+0x309/0x430 arch/x86/entry/common.c:287
>  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x3d/0xa2
> RIP: 0033:0x440429
> RSP: 002b:00007ffe9308d2b8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
> RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000440429
> RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000040005504 RDI: 0000000000000003
> RBP: 00000000006cb018 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 00007ffe93080031
> R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000004
> R13: ffffffffffffffff R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
> Dumping ftrace buffer:
>    (ftrace buffer empty)
> Kernel Offset: disabled
> Rebooting in 86400 seconds..
> 
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Thanks.

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Dmitry