Re: linux-next boot error: general protection fault in __x64_sys_settimeofday

From: Dmitry Vyukov
Date: Thu Nov 14 2019 - 07:42:24 EST


On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 1:35 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 14 Nov 2019, syzbot wrote:
>
> From the full console output:
>
> kasan: CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE enabled
> kasan: GPF could be caused by NULL-ptr deref or user memory access
> general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
> RIP: 0010:__x64_sys_settimeofday+0x170/0x320
>
> Code: 85 50 ff ff ff 85 c0 0f 85 50 01 00 00 e8 b8 cd 10 00 48 8b 85 48 ff ff ff 48 c1 e8 03 48 89 c2 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df <80> 3c 02 00 0f 85 8a 01 00 00 49 8b 74 24 08 bf 40 42 0f 00 48 89
>
> 80 3c 02 00 cmpb $0x0,(%rdx,%rax,1)
>
> RSP: 0018:ffff888093d0fe58 EFLAGS: 00010206
> RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 1ffff110127a1fcd RCX: ffffffff8162e915
> RDX: 00000fff820fb94b RSI: ffffffff8162e928 RDI: 0000000000000005
>
> i.e.
>
> *(0x00000fff820fb94b + 0xdffffc0000000000 * 1) == 0
>
> *(0xe0000bff820fb94b) == 0
>
> So base == 0x00000fff820fb94b and index == 0xdffffc0000000000 and scale =
> 1. As scale is 1, base and index might be swapped, but that still does not
> make any sense.
>
> 0xdffffc0000000000 is explicitely loaded into RAX according to the
> disassembly, but I can't find the corresponding source as this is in the
> middle of the function prologue and looks KASAN related.
>
> RBP: ffff888093d0ff10 R08: ffff8880a8904380 R09: ffff8880a8904c18
> R10: fffffbfff1390d30 R11: ffffffff89c86987 R12: 00007ffc107dca50
> R13: ffff888093d0fee8 R14: 00007ffc107dca10 R15: 0000000000087a85
> FS: 00007f614c01b700(0000) GS:ffff8880ae800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> CR2: 00007f4440cdf000 CR3: 00000000a5236000 CR4: 00000000001406f0
> DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> Call Trace:
> ? do_sys_settimeofday64+0x250/0x250
> ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x1a/0x1c
> ? do_syscall_64+0x26/0x760
> ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe
> ? do_syscall_64+0x26/0x760
> ? lockdep_hardirqs_on+0x421/0x5e0
> ? trace_hardirqs_on+0x67/0x240
> do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x760
> entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe
>
> The below is the user code which triggered that:
>
> RIP: 0033:0x7f614bb16047
>
> Code: ff ff 73 05 48 83 c4 08 c3 48 8b 0d eb 7d 2e 00 31 d2 48 29 c2 64 89 11 48 83 c8 ff eb e6 90 90 90 90 90 b8 a4 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d c1 7d 2e 00 31 d2 48 29 c2 64
>
> 23: b8 a4 00 00 00 mov $0xa4,%eax
> 28: 0f 05 syscall
> 2a:* 48 3d 01 f0 ff ff cmp $0xfffffffffffff001,%rax
> 30: 73 01 jae 0x33
> 32: c3 retq
>
> RSP: 002b:00007ffc107dc978 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a4
> RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f614bb16047
> RDX: 000000005dcd1ee0 RSI: 00007ffc107dca10 RDI: 00007ffc107dca50
> RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 00007ffc107e6080 R09: 0000000000000eca
> R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 0000000000000000
> R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
>
> So RAX is obviously the syscall number and the arguments are in RDI (tv()
> and RSI (tz), which both look like legit user space addresses.
>
> As this is deep in the function prologue compiler/KASAN people might want
> to have a look at that.

Looks like a plain user memory access:

SYSCALL_DEFINE2(settimeofday, struct __kernel_old_timeval __user *, tv,
struct timezone __user *, tz)
{
....
if (tv->tv_usec > USEC_PER_SEC) // <==== HERE
return -EINVAL;

Urgently need +Jann's patch to better explain these things!