Re: [syzbot] KASAN: null-ptr-deref Read in filp_close (2)

From: Christian Brauner
Date: Fri Mar 26 2021 - 09:51:03 EST


On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 10:34:28AM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2021, 10:21 Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 10:12 AM Christian Brauner
> > <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 09:02:08AM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 8:55 AM syzbot
> > > > <syzbot+283ce5a46486d6acdbaf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > >
> > > > > syzbot found the following issue on:
> > > > >
> > > > > HEAD commit: 5ee96fa9 Merge tag 'irq-urgent-2021-03-21' of git://
> > git.ke..
> > > > > git tree: upstream
> > > > > console output:
> > https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=17fb84bed00000
> > > > > kernel config:
> > https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=6abda3336c698a07
> > > > > dashboard link:
> > https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=283ce5a46486d6acdbaf
> > > > >
> > > > > Unfortunately, I don't have any reproducer for this issue yet.
> > > > >
> > > > > IMPORTANT: if you fix the issue, please add the following tag to the
> > commit:
> > > > > Reported-by: syzbot+283ce5a46486d6acdbaf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > >
> > > > I was able to reproduce this with the following C program:
> > > >
> > https://gist.githubusercontent.com/dvyukov/00fb7aae489f22c60b4e64b45ef14d60/raw/cb368ca523d01986c2917f4414add0893b8f4243/gistfile1.txt
> > > >
> > > > +Christian
> > > > The repro also contains close_range as the previous similar crash:
> > > >
> > https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=1bef50bdd9622a1969608d1090b2b4a588d0c6ac
> > > > I don't know if it's related or not in this case, but looks suspicious.
> > >
> > > Hm, I fail to reproduce this with your repro. Do you need to have it run
> > > for a long time?
> > > One thing that strucky my eye is that binfmt_misc gets setup which made
> > > me go huh and I see commit
> > >
> > > commit e7850f4d844e0acfac7e570af611d89deade3146
> > > Author: Lior Ribak <liorribak@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Date: Fri Mar 12 21:07:41 2021 -0800
> > >
> > > binfmt_misc: fix possible deadlock in bm_register_write
> > >
> > > which uses filp_close() after having called open_exec() on the
> > > interpreter which makes me wonder why this doesn't have to use fput()
> > > like in all other codepaths for binfmnt_*.
> > >
> > > Can you revert this commit and see if you can reproduce this issue.
> > > Maybe this is a complete red herring but worth a try.
> >
> >
> > This program reproduces the crash for me almost immediately. Are you
> > sure you used the right commit/config?
> >
>
> I was trying to reproduce on v5.12-rc3 with all KASAN, KCSAN, KFENCE etc.
> turned on.
> I have an appointment I need to go to but will try to reproduce with commit
> and config you provided when I get home.
> I really hope it's not reproducible with v5.12-rc3 and only later commits
> since that would allow easier bisection.

Ok, I think I know what's going on. This fixes it for me. Can you test
too, please? I tried the #syz test way but syzbot doesn't have the
reproducer you gave me:

Thank you!
Christian