kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:72!

[Laura Abbott]

On 05/16/2017 07:32 AM, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 4:09 AM, Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au> wrote:
>> [Cc'ing the relevant folks]
>>
>> Breno Leitao <leitao at debian.org> writes:
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> On the other side, if I cherry-pick commit
>>> 517e1fbeb65f5eade8d14f46ac365db6c75aea9b into 4.11, I start seeing the
>>> same issue also on 4.11.
>>
>> Yeah it looks like powerpc also suffers from the same bug that arm64
>> used to, ie. virt_addr_valid() will return true for some vmalloc
>> addresses.
>>
>> virt_addr_valid() is used pretty widely, I'm not sure if we can just fix
>> it without other fallout. I'll dig a bit more tomorrow if no one beats
>> me to it.
>>
>> Kees, depending on how that turns out we may ask you to revert
>> 517e1fbeb65f ("mm/usercopy: Drop extra is_vmalloc_or_module() check").
> 
> That's fine by me. Let me know what you think would be best.
> 
> Laura, I don't see much harm in putting this back in place. It seems
> like it's just a matter of efficiency to have it removed?
> 
> -Kees
> 

Yes, there shouldn't be any harm if we need to bring it back.
Perhaps I should submit a follow on patch to rename virt_addr_valid to
virt_addr_valid_except_where_it_isnt.

Thanks,
Laura