Hello,
A Syzkaller PoC causes a GPF with the following stacktrace in linux-4.14.y and linux-4.19.y.
BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in get_page+0xf/0x65
Read of size 8 at addr 0000000000000008 by task poc2/3395
CPU: 0 PID: 3395 Comm: poc2 Not tainted 4.19.214-00936-g38ec06730e44 #59
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0xe7/0x131
kasan_report+0x22a/0x272
get_page+0xf/0x65
submit_page_section+0xf4/0x202
do_blockdev_direct_IO+0xb90/0xfb9
? dio_set_defer_completion+0x57/0x57
? lock_is_held_type+0x78/0x86
? jbd2_journal_stop+0x6fa/0x742
? ext4_get_block_trans+0x188/0x188
? lock_downgrade+0x29a/0x29a
? __blockdev_direct_IO+0x52/0x93
? do_journal_get_write_access+0x7b/0x7b
ext4_direct_IO+0x4eb/0x7ad
? ext4_get_block_trans+0x188/0x188
generic_file_direct_write+0x132/0x1d8
__generic_file_write_iter+0xa6/0x1c0
? generic_write_checks+0x173/0x19d
ext4_file_write_iter+0x450/0x549
? ext4_unwritten_wait+0x153/0x153
? iter_file_splice_write+0x11a/0x4d7
? lock_acquire+0x1a7/0x1e7
? iter_file_splice_write+0x11a/0x4d7
? lock_acquire+0x1b7/0x1e7
? match_held_lock+0x2e/0x102
? __lock_is_held+0x2a/0x87
do_iter_readv_writev+0x145/0x1b1
? file_start_write.isra.0+0x34/0x34
? avc_policy_seqno+0x1d/0x25
? selinux_file_permission+0xce/0x115
do_iter_write+0xa6/0xe6
iter_file_splice_write+0x337/0x4d7
? __do_compat_sys_vmsplice+0x16c/0x16c
? match_held_lock+0x2e/0x102
? lock_is_held_type+0x78/0x86
__do_sys_splice+0x6cc/0x8f6
? ipipe_prep.part.0+0x99/0x99
? mark_held_locks+0x2d/0x84
? do_syscall_64+0x14/0x90
do_syscall_64+0x74/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe
RIP: 0033:0x43f579
Could the following patch be applied to linux-4.19.y and linux-4.14.y?
linux-5.4.y has this commit.
3d75ca0adef4 ("block: introduce multi-page bvec helpers")
Tests run:
* Syzkaller reproducer
* Chrome OS tryjobs
Thanks,
- Zubin
