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From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	sunhaoyl@outlook.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs/binfmt_elf.c: allocate initialized memory in fill_thread_core_info()
Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 04:44:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200512034400.GA1537486@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200512010901.GQ23230@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>

On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 02:09:01AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 10:14:25AM +0200, Alexander Potapenko wrote:
> > > Not lately and I would also like to hear the details; which regset it is?
> > > Should be reasonably easy to find - just memset() the damn thing to something
> > > recognizable, do whatever triggers that KMSAN report and look at that
> > > resulting coredump.
> > 
> > The bug is easily triggerable by the following program:
> > 
> > ================================================
> > int main() {
> >   volatile char *c = 0;
> >   (void)*c;
> >   return 0;
> > }
> > ================================================
> > 
> > in my QEMU after I do `ulimit -c 10000`.
> 
> .config, please - I hadn't been able to reproduce that on mine.
> Coredump obviously does happen, but not a trace of the poison
> is there - with your memset(data, 0xae, size) added, that is.

Actually, more interesting question would be your /proc/cpuinfo...

  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-12  3:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-19 10:08 [PATCH] fs/binfmt_elf.c: allocate initialized memory in fill_thread_core_info() glider
2020-04-19 10:10 ` Alexander Potapenko
2020-04-20 22:33 ` Andrew Morton
2020-04-20 22:41   ` Kees Cook
2020-04-21  3:42     ` Al Viro
2020-04-21  8:14       ` Alexander Potapenko
2020-05-12  1:09         ` Al Viro
2020-05-12  3:44           ` Al Viro [this message]
2020-05-12  8:20             ` Alexander Potapenko
2020-05-13  3:33               ` Al Viro
2020-05-24 23:45                 ` Al Viro
2020-05-26 22:38                   ` Al Viro
2020-05-27 12:08                     ` Alexander Potapenko
2020-05-27 19:04                     ` Borislav Petkov
2020-05-27 19:53                       ` Al Viro
2020-05-27 20:09                         ` Borislav Petkov
2020-04-21 12:54       ` Alexander Potapenko
2020-04-21 15:09         ` Jann Horn
2020-04-21 16:04           ` Yu-cheng Yu
2020-04-21 16:16             ` Jann Horn
2020-04-21 16:26               ` Yu-cheng Yu
2020-04-21 20:20               ` Kees Cook
2020-04-21  8:06     ` Alexander Potapenko
2020-05-27 21:55     ` Kees Cook
2020-04-21  8:00   ` Alexander Potapenko

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