Hi,
On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 11:00:56AM -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Dec 2019, Daniel Axtens wrote:
>
> > alloc_percpu() may return NULL, which means chan->buf may be set to
> > NULL. In that case, when we do *per_cpu_ptr(chan->buf, ...), we
> > dereference an invalid pointer:
> >
> > BUG: Unable to handle kernel data access at 0x7dae0000
> > Faulting instruction address: 0xc0000000003f3fec
> > ...
> > NIP [c0000000003f3fec] relay_open+0x29c/0x600
> > LR [c0000000003f3fc0] relay_open+0x270/0x600
> > Call Trace:
> > [c000000054353a70] [c0000000003f3fb4] relay_open+0x264/0x600 (unreliable)
> > [c000000054353b00] [c000000000451764] __blk_trace_setup+0x254/0x600
> > [c000000054353bb0] [c000000000451b78] blk_trace_setup+0x68/0xa0
> > [c000000054353c10] [c0000000010da77c] sg_ioctl+0x7bc/0x2e80
> > [c000000054353cd0] [c000000000758cbc] do_vfs_ioctl+0x13c/0x1300
> > [c000000054353d90] [c000000000759f14] ksys_ioctl+0x94/0x130
> > [c000000054353de0] [c000000000759ff8] sys_ioctl+0x48/0xb0
> > [c000000054353e20] [c00000000000bcd0] system_call+0x5c/0x68
> >
> > Check if alloc_percpu returns NULL.
> >
> > This was found by syzkaller both on x86 and powerpc, and the reproducer
> > it found on powerpc is capable of hitting the issue as an unprivileged
> > user.
> >
> > Fixes: 017c59c042d0 ("relay: Use per CPU constructs for the relay channel
> > buffer pointers")
> > Reported-by: [email protected]
> > Reported-by: [email protected]
> > Reported-by: [email protected]
> > Reported-by: [email protected]
> > Cc: Akash Goel <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Andrew Donnellan <[email protected]> # syzkaller-ppc64
> > Reviewed-by: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
> > Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <[email protected]>
> > Cc: [email protected] # v4.10+
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <[email protected]>
>
> Acked-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
It looks this one was never applied (which relates to CVE-2019-19462,
as pointed by Guenter in [email protected]).
Whas this lost or are there any issues pending?
Regards,
Salvatore
