Re: PROBLEM: syzkaller found / pool corruption-overwrite / page in user-area or NULL

[Esme]

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On Thursday, January 10, 2019 11:52 PM, Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx> wrote:

> On 1/10/19 10:15 PM, Esme wrote:
>
> > > > [ 75.793150] RIP: 0010:rb_insert_color+0x189/0x1480
> > >
> > > What's in that line? Try,
> > > $ ./scripts/faddr2line vmlinux rb_insert_color+0x189/0x1480
> >
> > rb_insert_color+0x189/0x1480:
> > __rb_insert at /home/files/git/linux/lib/rbtree.c:131
> > (inlined by) rb_insert_color at /home/files/git/linux/lib/rbtree.c:452
>
> gparent = rb_red_parent(parent);
>
> tmp = gparent->rb_right; <-- GFP triggered here.
>
> It suggests gparent is NULL. Looks like it misses a check there because parent
> is the top node.
>
> > > What's steps to reproduce this?
> >
> > The steps is the kernel config provided (proc.config) and I double checked the attached C code from the qemu image (attached here). If the kernel does not immediately crash, a ^C will cause the fault to be noticed. The report from earlier is the report from the same code, my assumption was that the possible pool/redzone corruption is making it a bit tricky to pin down.
> > If you would like alternative kernel settings please let me know, I can do that, also, my current test-bench has about 256 core's on x64, 64 of them are bare metal and 32 are arm64. Any possible preferred configuration tweaks I'm all ears, I'll be including some of these steps you suggested to me in any/additional upcoming threads (Thank you for that so far and future suggestions).
> > Also, there is some occasionally varying stacks depending on the corruption, so this stack just now (another execution of test3.c);
>
> I am unable to reproduce any of those here. What's is the output of
> /proc/cmdline in your guest when this happens?

console=ttyS0 root=/dev/sda debug earlyprintk=serial slub_debug=QUZ