Re: [syzbot] kernel BUG in vhost_get_vq_desc

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Sun Feb 20 2022 - 08:10:31 EST


On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 01:31:02PM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Feb 2022 at 13:16, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > On Sat, 19 Feb 2022 05:01:10 -0800
> > > > > > Hello,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > syzbot has tested the proposed patch but the reproducer is still triggering an issue:
> > > > > > kernel BUG in vhost_get_vq_desc
> > > > >
> > > > > The WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 4052 at drivers/vhost/vhost.c:715 got quiesced.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > > > > > kernel BUG at drivers/vhost/vhost.c:2338!
> > > > >
> > > > > Given the mutex_lock(&vq->mutex) in vhost_vsock_handle_tx_kick(), this
> > > > > report proves that the bug is bogus.
> > > > >
> > > > > > invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
> > > > > > CPU: 0 PID: 4071 Comm: vhost-4070 Not tainted 5.17.0-rc4-syzkaller-00054-gf71077a4d84b-dirty #0
> > > > > > Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
> > > > > > RIP: 0010:vhost_get_vq_desc+0x1dc5/0x2350 drivers/vhost/vhost.c:2338
> > > > > > Code: 00 00 00 48 c7 c6 20 2c 9d 8a 48 c7 c7 98 a6 8e 8d 48 89 ca 48 c1 e1 04 48 01 d9 e8 25 59 28 fd e9 74 ff ff ff e8 cb c7 a1 fa <0f> 0b e8 c4 c7 a1 fa 48 8b 54 24 18 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df
> > > > > > RSP: 0018:ffffc900028bfb78 EFLAGS: 00010293
> > > > > > RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000000000
> > > > > > RDX: ffff88801cbd1d00 RSI: ffffffff86d71655 RDI: 0000000000000003
> > > > > > RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001
> > > > > > R10: ffffffff86d7072d R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
> > > > > > R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff88806ffc4bb0 R15: dffffc0000000000
> > > > > > FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b9c00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> > > > > > CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> > > > > > CR2: 0000000000000002 CR3: 000000001d077000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
> > > > > > DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> > > > > > DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> > > > > > Call Trace:
> > > > > > <TASK>
> > > > > > vhost_vsock_handle_tx_kick+0x277/0xa20 drivers/vhost/vsock.c:522
> > > > > > vhost_worker+0x2e9/0x3e0 drivers/vhost/vhost.c:374
> > > > > > kthread+0x2e9/0x3a0 kernel/kthread.c:377
> > > > > > ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295
> > > > > > </TASK>
> > > > > > Modules linked in:
> > > > > > ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
> > > > > > RIP: 0010:vhost_get_vq_desc+0x1dc5/0x2350 drivers/vhost/vhost.c:2338
> > > > > > Code: 00 00 00 48 c7 c6 20 2c 9d 8a 48 c7 c7 98 a6 8e 8d 48 89 ca 48 c1 e1 04 48 01 d9 e8 25 59 28 fd e9 74 ff ff ff e8 cb c7 a1 fa <0f> 0b e8 c4 c7 a1 fa 48 8b 54 24 18 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df
> > > > > > RSP: 0018:ffffc900028bfb78 EFLAGS: 00010293
> > > > > > RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000000000
> > > > > > RDX: ffff88801cbd1d00 RSI: ffffffff86d71655 RDI: 0000000000000003
> > > > > > RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001
> > > > > > R10: ffffffff86d7072d R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
> > > > > > R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff88806ffc4bb0 R15: dffffc0000000000
> > > > > > FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b9d00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> > > > > > CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> > > > > > CR2: 00007fc7293991d0 CR3: 000000001d077000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
> > > > > > DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> > > > > > DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Tested on:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > commit: f71077a4 Merge tag 'mmc-v5.17-rc1-2' of git://git.kern..
> > > > > > git tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/
> > > > > > console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=11e82d7a700000
> > > > > > kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=a78b064590b9f912
> > > > > > dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=3140b17cb44a7b174008
> > > > > > compiler: gcc (Debian 10.2.1-6) 10.2.1 20210110, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.35.2
> > > > > > patch: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/patch.diff?x=11857326700000
> > > > >
> > > > > Attempted fix is bail out if anything eerie is detected in terms of the
> > > > > notify flag.
> > > >
> > > Hello Mike,
> > >
> > > Thanks for taking a look at it.
> > >
> > > > I mean this will fix the warning for sure, but do we understand how
> > > > it might have triggered?
> > >
> > > Based on what's fed to BUG_ON in the hunk below, it was the update of
> > > used_flag behind our back that pulled the trigger.
> > >
> > > The bigger pain is, given the mutex_lock(&vq->mutex) in
> > > vhost_vsock_handle_tx_kick(), I find nothing to do about it now after
> > > scratching scalp twenty minutes other than detecting the update.
> >
> > Right. I think it's highly likely a use after free.
> > How about poisoning the vq struct with some value before freeing
> > so we can catch that?
>
> syzbot config enables KASAN, which catches most use-after-frees. So
> unless there is something very special about this code, I wouldn't
> assume this is a use-after-free.
> Some racy use-after-frees may be caught as both use-after-frees and
> other types of bugs with lower probability. I see 8 bugs on the syzbot
> dashboard that mention "vhost" but none of the are use-after-frees.
>

Hmm okay.
Well we also have the (non reproducible)
WARN_ON(!llist_empty(&dev->work_list));

trigger.


So I think what happens is that there's some worker still running
when we call vhost_vq_reset.

Here's what is supposed to stop it:

vhost_vsock_stop(vsock);
vhost_vsock_flush(vsock);
vhost_dev_stop(&vsock->dev);

after this point, there should be no new work.

However I wonder why do we flush before we stop everything.
Maybe this is what it's about.


#syz test: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/ f71077a4d84b

diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vsock.c b/drivers/vhost/vsock.c
index d6ca1c7ad513..b31c3a78dbff 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vsock.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vsock.c
@@ -754,8 +754,8 @@ static int vhost_vsock_dev_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
vsock_for_each_connected_socket(vhost_vsock_reset_orphans);

vhost_vsock_stop(vsock);
- vhost_vsock_flush(vsock);
vhost_dev_stop(&vsock->dev);
+ vhost_vsock_flush(vsock);

spin_lock_bh(&vsock->send_pkt_list_lock);
while (!list_empty(&vsock->send_pkt_list)) {