From: Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@tessares.net>
To: Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@gmail.com>,
syzbot <syzbot+7b938780d5deeaaf938f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>,
davem@davemloft.net, johan.hedberg@gmail.com, kuba@kernel.org,
linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, luiz.dentz@gmail.com,
marcel@holtmann.org, mathew.j.martineau@linux.intel.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com,
syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [syzbot] KFENCE: use-after-free in kvm_fastop_exception
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 10:21:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <32aeb66e-d4f0-26b5-a140-4477bb87067f@tessares.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6736a510-20a1-9fb5-caf4-86334cabbbb6@gmail.com>
Hi Pavel,
On 18/08/2021 10:12, Pavel Skripkin wrote:
> On 8/18/21 11:02 AM, Matthieu Baerts wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On 18/08/2021 00:21, syzbot wrote:
>>> syzbot has bisected this issue to:
>>>
>>> commit c4512c63b1193c73b3f09c598a6d0a7f88da1dd8
>>> Author: Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@tessares.net>
>>> Date: Fri Jun 25 21:25:22 2021 +0000
>>>
>>> mptcp: fix 'masking a bool' warning
>>>
>>> bisection log:
>>> https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/bisect.txt?x=122b0655300000
>>> start commit: b9011c7e671d Add linux-next specific files for 20210816
>>> git tree: linux-next
>>> final oops:
>>> https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/report.txt?x=112b0655300000
>>> console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=162b0655300000
>>> kernel config:
>>> https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=a245d1aa4f055cc1
>>> dashboard link:
>>> https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=7b938780d5deeaaf938f
>>> syz repro:
>>> https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?x=157a41ee300000
>>> C reproducer: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.c?x=14f78ff9300000
>>
>> I'm pretty sure the commit c4512c63b119 ("mptcp: fix 'masking a bool'
>> warning") doesn't introduce the reported bug. This minor fix is specific
>> to MPTCP which doesn't seem to be used here.
>>
>> I'm not sure how I can tell syzbot this is a false positive.
>>
>
>
> looks like it's fs/namei bug. Similar reports:
>
> https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=517fa734b92b7db404c409b924cf5c997640e324
>
>
> https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=484483daf3652b40dae18531923aa9175d392a4d
Thank you for having checked!
Should we mark them as "#syz dup" if you think they have the same root
cause?
> It's not false positive. I've suggested the fix here:
> https://groups.google.com/g/syzkaller-bugs/c/HE3c2fP5nic/m/1Yk17GBeAwAJ
> I am waiting for author comments about the fix :)
>
> But, yes, syzbot bisection is often wrong, so don't rely on it much :)
Yes sorry, I wanted to say the bisection picked a wrong commit :)
All good then if syzbot often blames the wrong modification :)
Cheers,
Matt
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-18 8:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-16 8:27 [syzbot] KFENCE: use-after-free in kvm_fastop_exception syzbot
2021-08-16 22:01 ` syzbot
2021-08-17 22:21 ` syzbot
2021-08-18 8:02 ` Matthieu Baerts
2021-08-18 8:12 ` Pavel Skripkin
2021-08-18 8:21 ` Matthieu Baerts [this message]
2021-08-18 8:55 ` Pavel Skripkin
2021-08-18 8:57 ` Matthieu Baerts
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