On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 8:02 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 3:47 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> After fixing up some build issues in the middle of the 4.16 cycle, I >> get an unhelpful bisect result of commit 0a4b6e2f80aa ("Merge branch >> 'for-4.16/block'"). Instead of letting the test run longer, I'm going >> to switch to doing several shorter test boots per kernel and see if >> that helps. One more bisect coming... > > Okay, so I can confirm the bisect points at the _merge_ itself, not a > specific patch. I'm not sure how to proceed here. It looks like some > kind of interaction between separate trees? Jens, do you have > suggestions on how to track this down? Turning off HARDENED_USERCOPY and turning on KASAN, I see the same report: [ 38.274106] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in _copy_to_user+0x42/0x60 [ 38.274841] Read of size 22 at addr ffff8800122b8c4b by task smartctl/1064 [ 38.275630] [ 38.275818] CPU: 2 PID: 1064 Comm: smartctl Not tainted 4.17.0-rc1-ARCH+ #266 [ 38.276631] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS Ubuntu-1.8.2-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014 [ 38.277690] Call Trace: [ 38.277988] dump_stack+0x71/0xab [ 38.278397] ? _copy_to_user+0x42/0x60 [ 38.278833] print_address_description+0x6a/0x270 [ 38.279368] ? _copy_to_user+0x42/0x60 [ 38.279800] kasan_report+0x243/0x360 [ 38.280221] _copy_to_user+0x42/0x60 [ 38.280635] sg_io+0x459/0x660 ... Though we get slightly more details (some we already knew): [ 38.301330] Allocated by task 329: [ 38.301734] kmem_cache_alloc_node+0xca/0x220 [ 38.302239] scsi_mq_init_request+0x64/0x130 [scsi_mod] [ 38.302821] blk_mq_alloc_rqs+0x2cf/0x370 [ 38.303265] blk_mq_sched_alloc_tags.isra.4+0x7d/0xb0 [ 38.303820] blk_mq_init_sched+0xf0/0x220 [ 38.304268] elevator_switch+0x17a/0x2c0 [ 38.304705] elv_iosched_store+0x173/0x220 [ 38.305171] queue_attr_store+0x72/0xb0 [ 38.305602] kernfs_fop_write+0x188/0x220 [ 38.306049] __vfs_write+0xb6/0x330 [ 38.306436] vfs_write+0xe9/0x240 [ 38.306804] ksys_write+0x98/0x110 [ 38.307181] do_syscall_64+0x6d/0x1d0 [ 38.307590] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9 [ 38.308142] [ 38.308316] Freed by task 0: [ 38.308652] (stack is not available) [ 38.309060] [ 38.309243] The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8800122b8c00 [ 38.309243] which belongs to the cache scsi_sense_cache of size 96 [ 38.310625] The buggy address is located 75 bytes inside of [ 38.310625] 96-byte region [ffff8800122b8c00, ffff8800122b8c60) -Kees -- Kees Cook Pixel Security