Re: general protection fault in kernfs_add_one

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Tue, 2019-11-19 at 11:00 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So looking at the decode, as usual the noise generated by KASAN isn't
> being very helpful, but it does look like at least one of the reports
> (I picked 5.2 because I don't care about 4.19 etc) is because
> 'kernfs_root(kn) is NULL in kernfs_add_one().
> 
> Looking at the reports, every single one seems to have a call chain
> that comes from vhci_write() -> vhci_get_user() ->
> vhci_create_device() -> __vhci_create_device() -> hci_register_dev()
> -> device_add() -> kobject_add().
> 
> (In this case, "every single one" is by looking at the last 10
> reports
> sorted by date, it wasn't exhaustive).
> 
> The way it got into 'write()' can be a bit varied (splice, write,
> whatever).
> 
> That makes me think it's bluetooth that is the problem, but it might
> be an effect of how syzbot groups the reports too, of course.
> 
> Might the device have been added at the same time that the last
> previous device was removed, so that the parent was deleted as the
> new
> device was aded? I dunno. The repro seem to be a repeated "open
> /dev/vhci, write two random bytes to it"
> 
> Or might it be some "it happens after you've added enough devices
> that
> something overflows" issue?
> 
> Adding bluetooth people to the cc.

Could this be what was fixed by:

ac43432cb1f5c2950408534987e57c2071e24d8f
("driver core: Fix use-after-free and double free on glue directory")

Which went into 5.3 afaik ?

Cheers,
Ben.

>                   Linus
> 
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 10:27 PM syzbot
> <syzbot+db1637662f412ac0d556@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > syzbot has bisected this bug to:
> > 
> > commit 726e41097920a73e4c7c33385dcc0debb1281e18
> > Author: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date:   Tue Jul 10 00:29:10 2018 +0000
> > 
> >      drivers: core: Remove glue dirs from sysfs earlier
> > 
> > bisection log:  
> > https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/bisect.txt?x=168e1012e00000
> > start commit:   5e335542 Merge branch 'for-linus' of
> > git://git.kernel.org/..
> > git tree:       upstream
> > final crash:    
> > https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/report.txt?x=158e1012e00000
> > console output: 
> > https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=118e1012e00000
> > kernel config:  
> > https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=9917ff4b798e1a1e
> > dashboard link: 
> > https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=db1637662f412ac0d556
> > syz repro:      
> > https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?x=10a66c11400000
> > C reproducer:   
> > https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.c?x=1346c771400000
> > 
> > Reported-by: syzbot+db1637662f412ac0d556@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Fixes: 726e41097920 ("drivers: core: Remove glue dirs from sysfs
> > earlier")
> > 
> > For information about bisection process see: 
> > https://goo.gl/tpsmEJ#bisection