On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 03:08:00AM -0700, syzbot wrote:
syzbot has bisected this bug to:
commit 7f466032dc9e5a61217f22ea34b2df932786bbfc
Author: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri May 24 08:12:18 2019 +0000
vhost: access vq metadata through kernel virtual address
bisection log: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/bisect.txt?x=149a8a20600000
start commit: 6d21a41b Add linux-next specific files for 20190718
git tree: linux-next
final crash: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/report.txt?x=169a8a20600000
console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=129a8a20600000
kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=3430a151e1452331
dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=e58112d71f77113ddb7b
syz repro: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?x=10139e68600000
Reported-by: syzbot+e58112d71f77113ddb7b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 7f466032dc9e ("vhost: access vq metadata through kernel virtual
address")
For information about bisection process see: https://goo.gl/tpsmEJ#bisection
OK I poked at this for a bit, I see several things that
we need to fix, though I'm not yet sure it's the reason for
the failures:
1. mmu_notifier_register shouldn't be called from vhost_vring_set_num_addr
That's just a bad hack,
in particular I don't think device
mutex is taken and so poking at two VQs will corrupt
memory.
So what to do? How about a per vq notifier?
Of course we also have synchronize_rcu
in the notifier which is slow and is now going to be called twice.
I think call_rcu would be more appropriate here.
We then need rcu_barrier on module unload.
OTOH if we make pages linear with map then we are good
with kfree_rcu which is even nicer.
2. Doesn't map leak after vhost_map_unprefetch?
And why does it poke at contents of the map?
No one should use it right?
3. notifier unregister happens last in vhost_dev_cleanup,
but register happens first. This looks wrong to me.
4. OK so we use the invalidate count to try and detect that
some invalidate is in progress.
I am not 100% sure why do we care.
Assuming we do, uaddr can change between start and end
and then the counter can get negative, or generally
out of sync.
So what to do about all this?
I am inclined to say let's just drop the uaddr optimization
for now. E.g. kvm invalidates unconditionally.
3 should be fixed independently.