Re: INFO: rcu detected stall in hub_event

[Alan Stern]

On Mon, 25 Nov 2019, Alan Stern wrote:

> Jiri:
> 
> On Sat, 23 Nov 2019, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure, but the stack trace reminds me of this issue, so this
> > report might be related:
> > 
> > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/syzkaller-bugs/X0zVbh8aFEM/NsPcshjxBgAJ
> 
> No, the issue is quite different, although it is also a bug in the HID
> parser.  The big problem is that the parser assumes all usages will
> belong to a collection.
> 
> There's also a second, smaller bug: hid_apply_multipler() assumes every
> Resolution Multiplier control is associated with a Logical Collection
> (i.e., there's no way the routine can ever set multiplier_collection to
> NULL) even though there's a big quotation from the HID Usage Table
> manual at the start of the function saying that they don't have to be.  
> This bug can be fixed easily, though.
> 
> The first bug is more troublesome.  hid_add_usage() explicitly sets the 
> parser->local.collection_index[] entry to 0 if the current collection 
> stack is empty.  But there's no way to distinguish this 0 from a 
> genuine index value that happens to point to the first collection!
> 
> So what should happen when a usage appears outside of all collections?  
> Is it a bug in the report descriptor (the current code suggests that it 
> is not)?
> 
> Or should we use a different sentinel value for the collection_index[]
> entry, one that cannot be confused with a genuine value, such as
> UINT_MAX?

On Tue, 26 Nov 2019, Jiri Kosina wrote:

> Alan, did you get a test result from syzbot on this patch? My mailbox 
> doesn't seem to have it.

On Tue, 26 Nov 2019, syzbot wrote:

> Hello,
>
> syzbot has tested the proposed patch and the reproducer did not trigger
> crash:
>
> Reported-and-tested-by:
> syzbot+ec5f884c4a135aa0dbb9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Jiri:

Now we've got the answer.  The current question is: What should I do
with the patch?  It seems rather ad-hoc, not a proper solution to the
problem.

To refresh your memory, here is the patch that syzbot tested:

 drivers/hid/hid-core.c |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

Index: usb-devel/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
===================================================================
--- usb-devel.orig/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
+++ usb-devel/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
@@ -1057,6 +1057,8 @@ static void hid_apply_multiplier(struct
 	while (multiplier_collection->parent_idx != -1 &&
 	       multiplier_collection->type != HID_COLLECTION_LOGICAL)
 		multiplier_collection = &hid->collection[multiplier_collection->parent_idx];
+	if (multiplier_collection->type != HID_COLLECTION_LOGICAL)
+		multiplier_collection = NULL;
 
 	effective_multiplier = hid_calculate_multiplier(hid, multiplier);
 
@@ -1191,6 +1193,9 @@ int hid_open_report(struct hid_device *d
 	}
 	device->collection_size = HID_DEFAULT_NUM_COLLECTIONS;
 
+	/* Needed for usages before the first collection */
+	device->collection[0].parent_idx = -1;
+
 	ret = -EINVAL;
 	while ((start = fetch_item(start, end, &item)) != NULL) {
 
Alan Stern