Re: kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:72!

[Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 2017-05-16 at 09:30 +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> On 05/16/2017 12:49 AM, Breno Leitao wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Kernel 4.12-rc1 is showing a bug when I try it on a POWER8 virtual
> > machine. Justing SSHing into the machine causes this issue.
> > 
> > 	[23.138124] usercopy: kernel memory overwrite attempt detected to d000000003d80030 (mm_struct) (560 bytes)
> > 	[23.138195] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > 	[23.138229] kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:72!
> > 	[23.138252] Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#3]
> > 	[23.138280] SMP NR_CPUS=2048 
> > 	[23.138280] NUMA 
> > 	[23.138302] pSeries
> > 	[23.138330] Modules linked in:
> > 	[23.138354] CPU: 4 PID: 2215 Comm: sshd Tainted: G      D         4.12.0-rc1+ #9
> > 	[23.138395] task: c0000001e272dc00 task.stack: c0000001e27b0000
> > 	[23.138430] NIP: c000000000342358 LR: c000000000342354 CTR: c0000000006eb060
> > 	[23.138472] REGS: c0000001e27b3a00 TRAP: 0700   Tainted: G      D          (4.12.0-rc1+)
> > 	[23.138513] MSR: 8000000000029033 <SF,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE>
> > 	[23.138517]   CR: 28004222  XER: 20000000
> > 	[23.138565] CFAR: c000000000b34500 SOFTE: 1 
> > 	[23.138565] GPR00: c000000000342354 c0000001e27b3c80 c00000000142a000 000000000000005e 
> > 	[23.138565] GPR04: c0000001ffe0ade8 c0000001ffe21bf8 2920283536302062 79746573290d0a74 
> > 	[23.138565] GPR08: 0000000000000007 c000000000f61864 00000001feeb0000 3064206f74206465 
> > 	[23.138565] GPR12: 0000000000004400 c00000000fb42600 0000000000000015 00000000545bdc40 
> > 	[23.138565] GPR16: 00000000545c49c8 000001000b4b8890 00007ffff78c26f0 00000000545cf000 
> > 	[23.138565] GPR20: 00000000546109c8 000000000000c7e8 0000000054610010 00007ffff78c22e8 
> > 	[23.138565] GPR24: 00000000545c8c40 c0000000ff6bcef0 c0000000001e5220 0000000000000230 
> > 	[23.138565] GPR28: d000000003d80260 0000000000000000 0000000000000230 d000000003d80030 
> > 	[23.138920] NIP [c000000000342358] __check_object_size+0x88/0x2d0
> > 	[23.138956] LR [c000000000342354] __check_object_size+0x84/0x2d0
> > 	[23.138990] Call Trace:
> > 	[23.139006] [c0000001e27b3c80] [c000000000342354] __check_object_size+0x84/0x2d0 (unreliable)
> > 	[23.139056] [c0000001e27b3d00] [c0000000009f5ba8] bpf_prog_create_from_user+0xa8/0x1a0
> > 	[23.139099] [c0000001e27b3d60] [c0000000001e5d30] do_seccomp+0x120/0x720
> > 	[23.139136] [c0000001e27b3dd0] [c0000000000fd53c] SyS_prctl+0x2ac/0x6b0
> > 	[23.139172] [c0000001e27b3e30] [c00000000000af84] system_call+0x38/0xe0
> > 	[23.139218] Instruction dump:
> > 	[23.139240] 60000000 60420000 3c82ff94 3ca2ff9d 38841788 38a5e868 3c62ff95 7fc8f378 
> > 	[23.139283] 7fe6fb78 386310c0 487f2169 60000000 <0fe00000> 60420000 2ba30010 409d018c 
> > 	[23.139328] ---[ end trace 1a1dc952a4b7c4af ]---
> > 	
> > I found that kernel 4.11 does not have this issue. I also found that, if
> > I revert 517e1fbeb65f5eade8d14f46ac365db6c75aea9b, I do not see the
> > problem.
> 
> commit 517e1fbeb65f5eade8d14f46ac365db6c75aea9b
> Author: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
> Date:   Tue Apr 4 14:09:00 2017 -0700
> 
>     mm/usercopy: Drop extra is_vmalloc_or_module() check
>     
>     Previously virt_addr_valid() was insufficient to validate if virt_to_page()
>     could be called on an address on arm64. This has since been fixed up so
>     there is no need for the extra check. Drop it.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
>     Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> 
> diff --git a/mm/usercopy.c b/mm/usercopy.c
> index 1eba99b..a9852b2 100644
> --- a/mm/usercopy.c
> +++ b/mm/usercopy.c
> @@ -200,17 +200,6 @@ static inline const char *check_heap_object(const void *ptr, unsigned long n,
>  {
>  	struct page *page;
>  
> -	/*
> -	 * Some architectures (arm64) return true for virt_addr_valid() on
> -	 * vmalloced addresses. Work around this by checking for vmalloc
> -	 * first.
> -	 *
> -	 * We also need to check for module addresses explicitly since we
> -	 * may copy static data from modules to userspace
> -	 */
> -	if (is_vmalloc_or_module_addr(ptr))
> -		return NULL;
> -
>  	if (!virt_addr_valid(ptr))
>  		return NULL;
>  
> 
> 
> On POWER8 (CONFIG_PPC64),
> 
> #define virt_addr_valid(kaddr)	pfn_valid(virt_to_pfn(kaddr))
> #define virt_to_pfn(kaddr)	(__pa(kaddr) >> PAGE_SHIFT)
> #define __pa(x) ((unsigned long)(x) & 0x0fffffffffffffffUL)
> 
> Hence some vmalloc (0xd range) addresses can still pass the virt_addr_valid()
> test, hence the removed exclusive check for vmalloc and module addresses in
> the commit is still required for powerpc. If that is the case, we should
> revert the commit.
>

I guess it we should evaluate the meaning of virt_addr_valid() and what
it should return for 0xd.. and 0xf.. ranges for example?

Balbir Singh.