Re: [syzbot] general protection fault in gadget_setup

From: Dmitry Vyukov
Date: Tue Apr 13 2021 - 12:49:37 EST


On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 6:13 PM Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 10:12:05AM +0200, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 10:08 AM syzbot
> > <syzbot+eb4674092e6cc8d9e0bd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > syzbot found the following issue on:
> > >
> > > HEAD commit: 0f4498ce Merge tag 'for-5.12/dm-fixes-2' of git://git.kern..
> > > git tree: upstream
> > > console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=124adbf6d00000
> > > kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=daeff30c2474a60f
> > > dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=eb4674092e6cc8d9e0bd
> > > userspace arch: i386
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, I don't have any reproducer for this issue yet.
> > >
> > > IMPORTANT: if you fix the issue, please add the following tag to the commit:
> > > Reported-by: syzbot+eb4674092e6cc8d9e0bd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > I suspect that the raw gadget_unbind() can be called while the timer
> > is still active. gadget_unbind() sets gadget data to NULL.
> > But I am not sure which unbind call this is:
> > usb_gadget_remove_driver() or right in udc_bind_to_driver() due to a
> > start error.
>
> This certainly looks like a race between gadget_unbind and gadget_setup
> in raw_gadget.
>
> In theory, this race shouldn't matter. The gadget core is supposed to
> guarantee that there won't be any more callbacks to the gadget driver
> once the driver's unbind routine is called. That guarantee is enforced
> in usb_gadget_remove_driver as follows:
>
> usb_gadget_disconnect(udc->gadget);
> if (udc->gadget->irq)
> synchronize_irq(udc->gadget->irq);
> udc->driver->unbind(udc->gadget);
> usb_gadget_udc_stop(udc);
>
> usb_gadget_disconnect turns off the pullup resistor, telling the host
> that the gadget is no longer connected and preventing the transmission
> of any more USB packets. Any packets that have already been received
> are sure to processed by the UDC driver's interrupt handler by the time
> synchronize_irq returns.
>
> But this doesn't work with dummy_hcd, because dummy_hcd doesn't use
> interrupts; it uses a timer instead. It does have code to emulate the
> effect of synchronize_irq, but that code doesn't get invoked at the
> right time -- it currently runs in usb_gadget_udc_stop, after the unbind
> callback instead of before. Indeed, there's no way for
> usb_gadget_remove_driver to invoke this code before the unbind
> callback,.
>
> I thought the synchronize_irq emulation problem had been completely
> solved, but evidently it hasn't. It looks like the best solution is to
> add a call of the synchronize_irq emulation code in dummy_pullup.
>
> Maybe we can test this reasoning by putting a delay just before the call
> to dum->driver->setup. That runs in the timer handler, so it's not a
> good place to delay, but it may be okay just for testing purposes.
>
> Hopefully this patch will make the race a lot more likely to occur. Is
> there any way to tell syzkaller to test it, despite the fact that
> syzkaller doesn't think it has a reproducer for this issue?

If there is no reproducer the only way syzbot can test it is if it's
in linux-next under CONFIG_DEBUG_AID_FOR_SYZBOT:
http://bit.do/syzbot#no-custom-patches





> Alan Stern
>
>
> Index: usb-devel/drivers/usb/gadget/udc/dummy_hcd.c
> ===================================================================
> --- usb-devel.orig/drivers/usb/gadget/udc/dummy_hcd.c
> +++ usb-devel/drivers/usb/gadget/udc/dummy_hcd.c
> @@ -1900,6 +1900,7 @@ restart:
> if (value > 0) {
> ++dum->callback_usage;
> spin_unlock(&dum->lock);
> + mdelay(5);
> value = dum->driver->setup(&dum->gadget,
> &setup);
> spin_lock(&dum->lock);