Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 2014-12-22 17:37 GMT+03:00 Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>: >> Hi all, >> >> While fuzzing with trinity inside a KVM tools guest running the latest -next >> kernel, I've stumbled on the following spew: >> >> [ 2015.960381] general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN > > Actually this is NULL-ptr dereference. Since you are using kasan with > inline instrumentation > NULL-ptr deref transforms into GPF. > > >> [ 2015.970534] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88000003a960 RCX: 0000000000000073 >> [ 2015.970534] RDX: 1ffff10101c8f3c4 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff88080e479e20 >> [ 2015.970534] RBP: ffff88080e477a28 R08: 0000000000000066 R09: 0000000000000073 >> [ 2015.970534] R10: ffffda0017d55630 R11: dfffe90000000000 R12: ffff88005fc644b8 >> [ 2015.970534] R13: dfffe90000000000 R14: ffffffff92464884 R15: 0000000000000000 > > [...] > >> All code >> ======== >> 0: e8 03 42 80 3c callq 0x3c804208 >> 5: 28 00 sub %al,(%rax) >> 7: 0f 85 ff 01 00 00 jne 0x20c >> d: 4c 8b 7b 18 mov 0x18(%rbx),%r15 >> 11: 4d 85 ff test %r15,%r15 >> 14: 0f 84 de 01 00 00 je 0x1f8 >> 1a: 41 f6 c7 07 test $0x7,%r15b >> 1e: 0f 85 d4 01 00 00 jne 0x1f8 >> 24: 4c 89 f8 mov %r15,%rax >> 27: 48 c1 e8 03 shr $0x3,%rax >> 2b:* 42 80 3c 28 00 cmpb $0x0,(%rax,%r13,1) <-- trapping instruction > > Three commands above are result of KASAN's instrumentation. > They check shadow for address in %r15: > if (*((%r15 >> 3) + kasan_shadow_offset) > > >> 30: 0f 85 b5 01 00 00 jne 0x1eb >> 36: 4d 8b 37 mov (%r15),%r14 > > And here is memory access, that KASAN checking. Then frankly I suspect this is a KASAN bug. These two instructions: >> 11: 4d 85 ff test %r15,%r15 >> 14: 0f 84 de 01 00 00 je 0x1f8 Should prevent a NULL %r15 value from ever reaching the trapping instruction. What other horrible things does KASAN do to the machine code? Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html