Re: [Syzkaller & bisect] There is WARNING in tpm_chip_unregister in upstream patch "tpm: st33zp24: Mark ACPI and OF related data as maybe unused"

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 26/04/2023 11:10, Pengfei Xu wrote:
> Hi Jarkko and Krzysztof Kozlowski,
> 
> Greeting!
> 
> Platform: x86 platforms
> 
> There is WARNING in tpm_chip_unregister in upstream patch "tpm: st33zp24: Mark
> ACPI and OF related data as maybe unused":
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230424144130.1084795-1-jarkko@xxxxxxxxxx/
> -> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230319141354.22907-1-krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx/
> 
> We tested Intel internal kernel and found that, the above patch caused below
> WARNING and then kernel BUG dmesg info. After reverted above commit on top
> of Intel internal kernel, this issue was gone.
> I checked that internal commit:"c3985d8b9c22 tpm: st33zp24: Mark ACPI and OF
> related data as maybe unused" was same as above link patch.
> This issue could be reproduced in 155s in VM.
> 
> All detailed info: https://github.com/xupengfe/syzkaller_logs/tree/main/230426_132902_tpm_chip_unregister_warning
> Syzkaller reproduced code: https://github.com/xupengfe/syzkaller_logs/blob/main/230426_132902_tpm_chip_unregister_warning/repro.c
> Syzkaller syscall reproduced steps: https://github.com/xupengfe/syzkaller_logs/blob/main/230426_132902_tpm_chip_unregister_warning/repro.prog
> Syzkaller analysis report: https://github.com/xupengfe/syzkaller_logs/blob/main/230426_132902_tpm_chip_unregister_warning/repro.report
> Kconfig: https://github.com/xupengfe/syzkaller_logs/blob/main/230426_132902_tpm_chip_unregister_warning/kconfig_origin
> Bisect info: https://github.com/xupengfe/syzkaller_logs/blob/main/230426_132902_tpm_chip_unregister_warning/bisect_info.log
> 
> "
> [   24.638052] memfd_create() without MFD_EXEC nor MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL, pid=329 'systemd'
> [   28.731375] cgroup: Unknown subsys name 'net'
> [   28.741433] cgroup: Unknown subsys name 'rlimit'
> [   35.900833] tpm tpm0: Operation Canceled
> [   35.901377] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [   35.901648] refcount_t: addition on 0; use-after-free.
> [   35.901986] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 4095 at lib/refcount.c:25 refcount_warn_saturate+0xe6/0x1c0

Thanks for the report. I am quite surprised that this commit was pointed
as possible cause. The patch does not touch anything related to reported
issue... At least I do not see it. Could be some tooling problem in your
reproduction steps?


Best regards,
Krzysztof