Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request from pty_write [was: Linux 4.4.2]

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Feb 26 2016 - 11:49:59 EST


On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 10:50:27AM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 02/26/2016, 10:23 AM, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> > On 02/26/2016, 09:56 AM, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> >>> I really don't see how it would happen here - that code doesn't look
> >>> particularly odd.
> >
> > Funnily enough, this is what I got today, when booting 4.4.2 in qemu VM
> > on my host.
> >
> > RIP crashing (ffffffff810f28d5) is action->dev_id dereference in
> > handle_irq_event_percpu. Look:
> > 0xffffffff810f28d5 <+101>: mov 0x8(%rbx),%rsi
> > 0xffffffff810f28d9 <+105>: mov %r12d,%edi
> > 0xffffffff810f28dc <+108>: callq *(%rbx)
> > which is
> > trace_irq_handler_entry(irq, action);
> > res = action->handler(irq, action->dev_id);
> > trace_irq_handler_exit(irq, action, res);
> >
> ...
> > So is this the same bug or not?
>
> Seems not, actually. I think I need:
> commit 570540d50710ed192e98e2f7f74578c9486b6b05
> Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed Jan 13 14:07:25 2016 +0100
>
> genirq: Validate action before dereferencing it in
> handle_irq_event_percpu()

That's in my queue to pick up later today, sorry about that.

greg k-h