Re: autofs crash with latest linux-next

[Sven Schnelle]

Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 09:15:47AM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> I hit this since few days as well. Although the bisect points to the
>> merge, the issue looks like a result of mentioned commit 4d03e3cc5982
>> ("fs: don't allow kernel reads and writes without iter ops").
>> 
>> The __kernel_read() last argument 'pos' can be NULL and it is
>> dereferenced here (added by the commit):
>> 
>>  525 ssize_t __kernel_write(struct file *file, const void *buf, size_t count, loff_t *pos)
>> ...
>>  547         kiocb.ki_pos = *pos;
>>  548         iov_iter_kvec(&iter, WRITE, &iov, 1, iov.iov_len);
>> 
>> 
>> The __kernel_read() is called with NULL in fs/autofs/waitq.c:
>> 
>>  45 static int autofs_write(struct autofs_sb_info *sbi,
>>  46                         struct file *file, const void *addr, int bytes)
>> 
>> ...
>>  54         mutex_lock(&sbi->pipe_mutex);
>>  55         while (bytes) {
>>  56                 wr = __kernel_write(file, data, bytes, NULL);
>
> I think the thread here is the same thing, but you've found it in
> autofs...
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wgj=mKeN-EfV5tKwJNeHPLG0dybq+R5ZyGuc4WeUnqcmA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Indeed. Thanks, missed that.

Sven