BUG: memcmp(): Accessing invalid memory location
Chandan Rajendra
chandan at linux.ibm.com
Mon Feb 4 14:14:34 AEDT 2019
On Friday, February 1, 2019 4:43:52 PM IST Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au> writes:
>
> > Adding Simon who wrote the code.
> >
> > Chandan Rajendra <chandan at linux.ibm.com> writes:
> >> When executing fstests' generic/026 test, I hit the following call trace,
> >>
> >> [ 417.061038] BUG: Unable to handle kernel data access at 0xc00000062ac40000
> >> [ 417.062172] Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000092240
> >> [ 417.062242] Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
> >> [ 417.062299] LE SMP NR_CPUS=2048 DEBUG_PAGEALLOC NUMA pSeries
> >> [ 417.062366] Modules linked in:
> >> [ 417.062401] CPU: 0 PID: 27828 Comm: chacl Not tainted 5.0.0-rc2-next-20190115-00001-g6de6dba64dda #1
> >> [ 417.062495] NIP: c000000000092240 LR: c00000000066a55c CTR: 0000000000000000
> >> [ 417.062567] REGS: c00000062c0c3430 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (5.0.0-rc2-next-20190115-00001-g6de6dba64dda)
> >> [ 417.062660] MSR: 8000000002009033 <SF,VEC,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE> CR: 44000842 XER: 20000000
> >> [ 417.062750] CFAR: 00007fff7f3108ac DAR: c00000062ac40000 DSISR: 40000000 IRQMASK: 0
> >> GPR00: 0000000000000000 c00000062c0c36c0 c0000000017f4c00 c00000000121a660
> >> GPR04: c00000062ac3fff9 0000000000000004 0000000000000020 00000000275b19c4
> >> GPR08: 000000000000000c 46494c4500000000 5347495f41434c5f c0000000026073a0
> >> GPR12: 0000000000000000 c0000000027a0000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
> >> GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
> >> GPR20: c00000062ea70020 c00000062c0c38d0 0000000000000002 0000000000000002
> >> GPR24: c00000062ac3ffe8 00000000275b19c4 0000000000000001 c00000062ac30000
> >> GPR28: c00000062c0c38d0 c00000062ac30050 c00000062ac30058 0000000000000000
> >> [ 417.063563] NIP [c000000000092240] memcmp+0x120/0x690
> >> [ 417.063635] LR [c00000000066a55c] xfs_attr3_leaf_lookup_int+0x53c/0x5b0
> >> [ 417.063709] Call Trace:
> >> [ 417.063744] [c00000062c0c36c0] [c00000000066a098] xfs_attr3_leaf_lookup_int+0x78/0x5b0 (unreliable)
> >> [ 417.063851] [c00000062c0c3760] [c000000000693f8c] xfs_da3_node_lookup_int+0x32c/0x5a0
> >> [ 417.063944] [c00000062c0c3820] [c0000000006634a0] xfs_attr_node_addname+0x170/0x6b0
> >> [ 417.064034] [c00000062c0c38b0] [c000000000664ffc] xfs_attr_set+0x2ac/0x340
> >> [ 417.064118] [c00000062c0c39a0] [c000000000758d40] __xfs_set_acl+0xf0/0x230
> >> [ 417.064190] [c00000062c0c3a00] [c000000000758f50] xfs_set_acl+0xd0/0x160
> >> [ 417.064268] [c00000062c0c3aa0] [c0000000004b69b0] set_posix_acl+0xc0/0x130
> >> [ 417.064339] [c00000062c0c3ae0] [c0000000004b6a88] posix_acl_xattr_set+0x68/0x110
> >> [ 417.064412] [c00000062c0c3b20] [c0000000004532d4] __vfs_setxattr+0xa4/0x110
> >> [ 417.064485] [c00000062c0c3b80] [c000000000454c2c] __vfs_setxattr_noperm+0xac/0x240
> >> [ 417.064566] [c00000062c0c3bd0] [c000000000454ee8] vfs_setxattr+0x128/0x130
> >> [ 417.064638] [c00000062c0c3c30] [c000000000455138] setxattr+0x248/0x600
> >> [ 417.064710] [c00000062c0c3d90] [c000000000455738] path_setxattr+0x108/0x120
> >> [ 417.064785] [c00000062c0c3e00] [c000000000455778] sys_setxattr+0x28/0x40
> >> [ 417.064858] [c00000062c0c3e20] [c00000000000bae4] system_call+0x5c/0x70
> >> [ 417.064930] Instruction dump:
> >> [ 417.064964] 7d201c28 7d402428 7c295040 38630008 38840008 408201f0 4200ffe8 2c050000
> >> [ 417.065051] 4182ff6c 20c50008 54c61838 7d201c28 <7d402428> 7d293436 7d4a3436 7c295040
> >> [ 417.065150] ---[ end trace 0d060411b5e3741b ]---
> >>
> >>
> >> Both the memory locations passed to memcmp() had "SGI_ACL_FILE" and len
> >> argument of memcmp() was set to 12. s1 argument of memcmp() had the value
> >> 0x00000000f4af0485, while s2 argument had the value 0x00000000ce9e316f.
> >>
> >> The following is the code path within memcmp() that gets executed for the
> >> above mentioned values,
> >>
> >> - Since len (i.e. 12) is greater than 7, we branch to .Lno_short.
> >> - We then prefetch the contents of r3 & r4 and branch to
> >> .Ldiffoffset_8bytes_make_align_start.
> >> - Under .Ldiffoffset_novmx_cmp, Since r3 is unaligned we end up comparing
> >> "SGI" part of the string. r3's value is then aligned. r4's value is
> >> incremented by 3. For comparing the remaining 9 bytes, we jump to
> >> .Lcmp_lt32bytes.
> >> - Here, 8 bytes of the remaining 9 bytes are compared and execution moves to
> >> .Lcmp_rest_lt8bytes.
> >> - Here we execute "LD rB,0,r4". In the case of this bug, r4 has an unaligned
> >> value and hence ends up accessing the "next" double word. The "next" double
> >> word happens to occur after the last page mapped into the kernel's address
> >> space and hence this leads to the previously listed oops.
> >
> > Thanks for the analysis.
> >
> > This is just a bug, we can't read past the end of the source or dest.
>
> How about this, works for me.
>
> cheers
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/lib/memcmp_64.S b/arch/powerpc/lib/memcmp_64.S
> index 844d8e774492..2a302158cb53 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/lib/memcmp_64.S
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/lib/memcmp_64.S
> @@ -215,20 +215,29 @@ _GLOBAL_TOC(memcmp)
> beq .Lzero
>
> .Lcmp_rest_lt8bytes:
> - /* Here we have only less than 8 bytes to compare with. at least s1
> - * Address is aligned with 8 bytes.
> - * The next double words are load and shift right with appropriate
> - * bits.
> + /*
> + * Here we have less than 8 bytes left to compare with. We mustn't read
> + * past the end of either source or dest.
> */
> - subfic r6,r5,8
> - slwi r6,r6,3
> - LD rA,0,r3
> - LD rB,0,r4
> - srd rA,rA,r6
> - srd rB,rB,r6
> - cmpld cr0,rA,rB
> +
> + /* If we have less than 4 bytes, just do byte at a time */
> + cmpwi cr1, r5, 4
> + blt cr1, .Lshort
> +
> + /* Compare 4 bytes */
> + LW rA,0,r3
> + LW rB,0,r4
> + cmpd cr0,rA,rB
> bne cr0,.LcmpAB_lightweight
> - b .Lzero
> +
> + /* If we had exactly 4 bytes left, we're done now */
> + beq cr1, .Lzero
> +
> + /* Otherwise do what ever's left a byte at a time */
> + subi r5, r5, 4
> + addi r3, r3, 4
> + addi r4, r4, 4
> + b .Lshort
>
> .Lnon_zero:
> mr r3,rC
>
>
With the above patch, Linux kernel does not end up in oops. Hence,
Tested-by: Chandan Rajendra <chandan at linux.ibm.com>
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chandan
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