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From: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2024 09:12:31 -0700
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Subject: Re: [syzbot] [mm?] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in
 copy_from_kernel_nofault (2)
To: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>, Puranjay Mohan <puranjay12@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Apr 5, 2024 at 4:36=E2=80=AFAM Russell King (Oracle)
<linux@armlinux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 05, 2024 at 12:02:36PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 03:57:04PM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 3, 2024 at 6:56=E2=80=AFPM Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foun=
dationorg> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, 01 Apr 2024 22:19:25 -0700 syzbot <syzbot+186522670e6722692=
d86@syzkaller.appspotmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.  Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
> > >
> > > I suspect the issue is not on bpf side.
> > > Looks like the bug is somewhere in arm32 bits.
> > > copy_from_kernel_nofault() is called from lots of places.
> > > bpf is just one user that is easy for syzbot to fuzz.
> > > Interestingly arm defines copy_from_kernel_nofault_allowed()
> > > that should have filtered out user addresses.
> > > In this case ffffffe9 is probably a kernel address?
> >
> > It's at the end of the kernel range, and it's ERR_PTR(-EINVAL).
> >
> > 0xffffffe9 is -0x16, which is -22, which is -EINVAL.
> >
> > > But the kernel is doing a write?
> > > Which makes no sense, since copy_from_kernel_nofault is probe reading=
.
> >
> > It makes perfect sense; the read from 'src' happened, then the kernel t=
ries to
> > write the result to 'dst', and that aligns with the disassembly in the =
report
> > below, which I beleive is:
> >
> >      8: e4942000        ldr     r2, [r4], #0  <-- Read of 'src', fault =
fixup is elsewhere
> >      c: e3530000        cmp     r3, #0
> >   * 10: e5852000        str     r2, [r5]      <-- Write to 'dst'
> >
> > As above, it looks like 'dst' is ERR_PTR(-EINVAL).
> >
> > Are you certain that BPF is passing a sane value for 'dst'? Where does =
that
> > come from in the first place?
>
> It looks to me like it gets passed in from the BPF program, and the
> "type" for the argument is set to ARG_PTR_TO_UNINIT_MEM. What that
> means for validation purposes, I've no idea, I'm not a BPF hacker.
>
> Obviously, if BPF is allowing copy_from_kernel_nofault() to be passed
> an arbitary destination address, that would be a huge security hole.

If that's the case that's indeed a giant security hole,
but I doubt it. We would be crashing other archs as well.
I cannot really tell whether arm32 JIT is on.
If it is, it's likely a bug there.
Puranjay,
could you please take a look.