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From: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali•nl>
To: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle•com>
Cc: isdn@linux-pingi•de, davem@davemloft•net, tilman@imap•cc,
	gigaset307x-common@lists•sourceforge.net,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org>,
	"netdev@vger•kernel.org" <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
	syzkaller <syzkaller@googlegroups•com>
Subject: Re: gigaset: freeing an active object
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2015 01:28:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1448670517.6523.67.camel@tiscali.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56589DD9.2060508@oracle.com>

(A few quick notes follow. The hope here is basically that my display of
ignorance might trigger others to speak up while I'm still pondering on
this bug.)

On vr, 2015-11-27 at 13:15 -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On 11/27/2015 12:57 PM, Paul Bolle wrote:
> > On vr, 2015-11-27 at 10:19 -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > > Fuzzing with syzkaller on the latest -next kernel produced this
> > > error:
> > 
> > (syzkaller is new to me. I'll have to do some web searches.)
> 
> It's a new fancy syscall/ioctl fuzzer, 
> https://github.com/google/syzkaller/blob/master/README.md

Thanks.

That fuzzer apparently requires either CONFIG_KASAN, CONFIG_KTSAN, or
CONFIG_UBSAN, none of which I'm familiar with.

> > > [  413.536749] WARNING: CPU: 6 PID: 25400 at
> > > lib/debugobjects.c:263
> > > debug_print_object+0x1c4/0x1e0()
> > > [  413.538111] ODEBUG: free active (active state 0) object type:
> > > timer_list hint: delayed_work_timer_fn+0x0/0x90

There are two places that add "free" here, but there's no obvious way to
distinguish between them. Annoying.

Anyhow, this is interesting. ser-gigaset doesn't use timer_list while
bas-gigaset does.

> > > [  413.539598] Modules linked
> > > in:3470693efef57268844f02f5de3ab392d8cf5e209671ddd87163cb964c51065
> > > 9

Not sure what this means. The bug concerns ser-gigaset so it's safe to
assume the fuzzer at one point called
    ioctl(fd, TIOCSETD, N_GIGASET_M101)

which would trigger the use of ser-gigaset.

> > > [  413.540448] CPU: 6 PID: 25400 Comm: syzkaller_execu Not tainted
> > > 4.4.0-rc2-next-20151126-sasha-00005-g00d303e-dirty #2653
> > > [  413.547614] Call Trace:
> > > [  413.548077]  [<ffffffffa8e6b5bb>] dump_stack+0x72/0xb7
> > > [  413.548765]  [<ffffffffa73531d3>]
> > > warn_slowpath_common+0x113/0x140
> > > [  413.551151]  [<ffffffffa73532cb>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0xcb/0x100
> > > [  413.554295]  [<ffffffffa8ed0194>]
> > > debug_print_object+0x1c4/0x1e0
> > > [  413.556592]  [<ffffffffa8ed1035>]
> > > __debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x215/0x7a0
> > > [  413.560526]  [<ffffffffa8ed2b6c>]
> > > debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x2c/0x40
> > > [  413.561328]  [<ffffffffa77aac4c>] kfree+0x1fc/0x2f0

This should be
    kfree(cs->hw.ser)

Note that cs->hw is a union of struct base_cardstate, struct
ser_cardstate, and struct usb_cardstate. And it's obvious that struct
ser_cardstate is much smaller that struct bas_cardstate. So we're
probably free-ing some memory that, so to speak, includes
bas_cardstate.timer_int_in, a struct timer_list. That's likely way
beyond the end of struct ser_cardstate and so it should still contain
garbage.

> > > [  413.561970]  [<ffffffffae74b021>] gigaset_freecshw+0xe1/0x120
> > > [  413.562723]  [<ffffffffae70669d>] gigaset_freecs+0x2ad/0x600
> > > [  413.564240]  [<ffffffffae74ba60>] gigaset_tty_close+0x210/0x280
> > > [  413.565774]  [<ffffffffa95ba6f2>]
> > > tty_ldisc_close.isra.1+0xc2/0xd0
> > > [  413.566550]  [<ffffffffa95ba81b>] tty_ldisc_kill+0x4b/0x170
> > > [  413.567253]  [<ffffffffa95bbba3>] tty_ldisc_release+0x183/0x240
> > > [  413.568000]  [<ffffffffa95a507c>] tty_release+0xd1c/0xe80
> > > [  413.570176]  [<ffffffffa78182fa>] __fput+0x32a/0x680
> > > [  413.570888]  [<ffffffffa78186da>] ____fput+0x1a/0x20
> > > [  413.571565]  [<ffffffffa73adf5c>] task_work_run+0x19c/0x1e0
> > > [  413.572290]  [<ffffffffa735cae7>] do_exit+0xdf7/0x28f0
> > > [  413.576188]  [<ffffffffa735e805>] do_group_exit+0x1b5/0x300
> > > [  413.576905]  [<ffffffffa7382222>] get_signal+0x1182/0x1360
> > > [  413.577627]  [<ffffffffa717b553>] do_signal+0x93/0x1690
> > > [  413.584630]  [<ffffffffa70063b0>]
> > > exit_to_usermode_loop+0xc0/0x1e0
> > > [  413.585412]  [<ffffffffa7007feb>]
> > > prepare_exit_to_usermode+0x10b/0x140
> > > [  413.586187]  [<ffffffffb0a12c3e>] retint_user+0x8/0x23
> > 

I have no idea (yet) what triggers retint_user.

Anyhow, my first hunch is to do a s/kmalloc/kzalloc/ on
    drv->cs = kmalloc(minors * sizeof *drv->cs, GFP_KERNEL)

in drivers/isdn/gigaset/common.c and see if this still triggers. But to
test that I need to know how to reproduce this.

To be continued...


Paul Bolle

  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-28  0:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-27 15:19 gigaset: freeing an active object Sasha Levin
2015-11-27 17:57 ` Paul Bolle
2015-11-27 18:15   ` Sasha Levin
2015-11-28  0:28     ` Paul Bolle [this message]
2015-11-28  1:20       ` Peter Hurley
2015-11-28  1:27         ` Sasha Levin
2015-11-29 14:36           ` Dmitry Vyukov
2015-11-29 15:30 ` Tilman Schmidt
2015-11-29 18:22   ` Peter Hurley
2015-11-29 18:38     ` Tilman Schmidt
2015-11-29 18:47     ` Tilman Schmidt
2015-11-29 20:26       ` Paul Bolle
2015-11-29 23:23         ` Paul Bolle
2015-11-30 18:01           ` Paul Bolle
2015-11-30 18:30             ` Tilman Schmidt
2015-11-30 21:07               ` Paul Bolle
2015-12-01  9:30                 ` Tilman Schmidt
2015-12-01 10:05                   ` Paul Bolle
2015-12-02 23:48             ` Peter Hurley
2015-12-06 13:31               ` Paul Bolle
2015-12-06 15:29                 ` Tilman Schmidt
2015-12-06 20:12                   ` Paul Bolle
2015-12-07  9:27                     ` Tilman Schmidt
2015-12-07 12:25                       ` Paul Bolle
2015-12-07 18:40                         ` Tilman Schmidt

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