Re: arm64/acpi: NULL dereference reports from UBSAN at boot

From: Lorenzo Pieralisi
Date: Thu May 21 2020 - 13:37:48 EST


On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 11:09:53AM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I just tried booting the arm64 for-kernelci branch under QEMU (version
> 4.2.50 (v4.2.0-779-g4354edb6dcc7)) with UBSAN enabled, and I see a
> couple of NULL pointer dereferences reported at boot. I think they're
> both GIC related (log below). I don't see a panic with UBSAN disabled,
> so something's fishy here.

May I ask you the QEMU command line please - just to make sure I can
replicate it.

> Please can you take a look when you get a chance? I haven't had time to see
> if this is a regression or not, but I don't think it's particularly serious
> as I have all sorts of horrible stuff enabled in my .config, since I'm
> trying to chase down another bug:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mark/linux.git/plain/arch/arm64/configs/fuzzing.config?h=fuzzing/arm64-kernelci-20200519&id=c149cf6a51aa4f72d53fc681c6661094e93ef660
>
> (on top of defconfig)
>
> CONFIG_FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC may be to blame.

Not sure about that, they are both quite cryptic, I wonder if UBSAN
is not tricked by the ACPI_OFFSET macro - need to debug it further
to understand what's going on here.

Thanks,
Lorenzo

> Cheers,
>
> Will
>
> --->8
>
> [ 0.000000][ T0] ================================================================================
> [ 0.000000][ T0] UBSAN: null-ptr-deref in drivers/acpi/acpica/tbfadt.c:459:37
> [ 0.000000][ T0] member access within null pointer of type 'struct acpi_table_fadt'
> [ 0.000000][ T0] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.7.0-rc6-00124-g96bc42ff0a82 #1
> [ 0.000000][ T0] Call trace:
> [ 0.000000][ T0] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x384
> [ 0.000000][ T0] show_stack+0x28/0x38
> [ 0.000000][ T0] dump_stack+0xec/0x174
> [ 0.000000][ T0] handle_null_ptr_deref+0x134/0x174
> [ 0.000000][ T0] __ubsan_handle_type_mismatch_v1+0x84/0xa4
> [ 0.000000][ T0] acpi_tb_create_local_fadt+0x1d4/0x1418
> [ 0.000000][ T0] acpi_tb_parse_fadt+0x108/0x4b8
> [ 0.000000][ T0] acpi_tb_parse_root_table+0x380/0x578
> [ 0.000000][ T0] acpi_initialize_tables+0x140/0x194
> [ 0.000000][ T0] acpi_table_init+0x90/0xcc
> [ 0.000000][ T0] acpi_boot_table_init+0xfc/0x1c8
> [ 0.000000][ T0] setup_arch+0x2b4/0x3ec
> [ 0.000000][ T0] start_kernel+0x98/0x6f4
> [ 0.000000][ T0] ================================================================================
>
> [ 0.000000][ T0] ================================================================================
> [ 0.000000][ T0] UBSAN: null-ptr-deref in arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c:596:6
> [ 0.000000][ T0] member access within null pointer of type 'struct acpi_madt_generic_interrupt'
> [ 0.000000][ T0] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.7.0-rc6-00124-g96bc42ff0a82 #1
> [ 0.000000][ T0] Call trace:
> [ 0.000000][ T0] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x384
> [ 0.000000][ T0] show_stack+0x28/0x38
> [ 0.000000][ T0] dump_stack+0xec/0x174
> [ 0.000000][ T0] handle_null_ptr_deref+0x134/0x174
> [ 0.000000][ T0] __ubsan_handle_type_mismatch_v1+0x84/0xa4
> [ 0.000000][ T0] acpi_parse_gic_cpu_interface+0x60/0xe8
> [ 0.000000][ T0] acpi_parse_entries_array+0x288/0x498
> [ 0.000000][ T0] acpi_table_parse_entries_array+0x178/0x1b4
> [ 0.000000][ T0] acpi_table_parse_madt+0xa4/0x110
> [ 0.000000][ T0] acpi_parse_and_init_cpus+0x38/0x100
> [ 0.000000][ T0] smp_init_cpus+0x74/0x258
> [ 0.000000][ T0] setup_arch+0x350/0x3ec
> [ 0.000000][ T0] start_kernel+0x98/0x6f4
> [ 0.000000][ T0] ================================================================================