Re: [syzbot] [kernel?] KCSAN: data-race in do_timer_create / do_timer_create (8)

From: Dmitry Vyukov
Date: Fri Apr 21 2023 - 10:50:00 EST


On Fri, 21 Apr 2023 at 16:34, syzbot
<syzbot+5c54bd3eb218bb595aa9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> syzbot found the following issue on:
>
> HEAD commit: 6a8f57ae2eb0 Linux 6.3-rc7
> git tree: upstream
> console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=154fe6c0280000
> kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=fa4baf7c6b35b5d5
> dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=5c54bd3eb218bb595aa9
> compiler: Debian clang version 15.0.7, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.35.2
>
> Unfortunately, I don't have any reproducer for this issue yet.
>
> Downloadable assets:
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> vmlinux: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/2ac4347e9165/vmlinux-6a8f57ae.xz
> kernel image: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/e5844a1e58ba/bzImage-6a8f57ae.xz
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Here this:

int first_free_id = sig->posix_timer_id;

runs concurrently with:

if (++sig->posix_timer_id < 0)
sig->posix_timer_id = 0;
if ((sig->posix_timer_id == first_free_id) && (ret == -ENOENT))
/* Loop over all possible ids completed */
ret = -EAGAIN;

I am not sure how important/realistic this wrap-around handling is,
but as the result of the race first_free_id can be negative (if it
reads the value at just the right moment). Then wrap-around will never
be detected and the loop will loop forever uninterruptably.



> ==================================================================
> BUG: KCSAN: data-race in do_timer_create / do_timer_create
>
> write to 0xffff888100ea9bc4 of 4 bytes by task 7660 on cpu 1:
> do_timer_create+0x2fd/0xa30 kernel/time/posix-timers.c:516
> __se_sys_timer_create kernel/time/posix-timers.c:577 [inline]
> __x64_sys_timer_create+0xbb/0xe0 kernel/time/posix-timers.c:577
> do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
> do_syscall_64+0x41/0xc0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
> entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
>
> read to 0xffff888100ea9bc4 of 4 bytes by task 7659 on cpu 0:
> posix_timer_add kernel/time/posix-timers.c:143 [inline]
> do_timer_create+0x19f/0xa30 kernel/time/posix-timers.c:516
> __se_sys_timer_create kernel/time/posix-timers.c:577 [inline]
> __x64_sys_timer_create+0xbb/0xe0 kernel/time/posix-timers.c:577
> do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
> do_syscall_64+0x41/0xc0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
> entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
>
> value changed: 0x00000018 -> 0x00000026
>
> Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
> CPU: 0 PID: 7659 Comm: syz-executor.1 Not tainted 6.3.0-rc7-syzkaller #0
> Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 03/30/2023
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