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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Tommi Rantala <tommi.t.rantala@nokia.com>
Cc: Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Subject: Re: sudo x86info -a => kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:78!
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 09:45:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGXu5jKo4gw=RHCmcY3v+GTiUUgteLbmvHDghd-Lrm7RprL8=Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d928849c-e7c3-6b81-e551-a39fa976f341@nokia.com>

On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 11:44 PM, Tommi Rantala
<tommi.t.rantala@nokia.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Running:
>
>   $ sudo x86info -a
>
> On this HP ZBook 15 G3 laptop kills the x86info process with segfault and
> produces the following kernel BUG.
>
>   $ git describe
>   v4.11-rc4-40-gfe82203
>
> It is also reproducible with the fedora kernel: 4.9.14-200.fc25.x86_64
>
> Full dmesg output here: https://pastebin.com/raw/Kur2mpZq
>
> [   51.418954] usercopy: kernel memory exposure attempt detected from
> ffff880000090000 (dma-kmalloc-256) (4096 bytes)

This seems like a real exposure: the copy is attempting to read 4096
bytes from a 256 byte object.

> [...]
> [   51.419063] Call Trace:
> [   51.419066]  read_mem+0x70/0x120
> [   51.419069]  __vfs_read+0x28/0x130
> [   51.419072]  ? security_file_permission+0x9b/0xb0
> [   51.419075]  ? rw_verify_area+0x4e/0xb0
> [   51.419077]  vfs_read+0x96/0x130
> [   51.419079]  SyS_read+0x46/0xb0
> [   51.419082]  ? SyS_lseek+0x87/0xb0
> [   51.419085]  entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1a/0xa9

I can't reproduce this myself, so I assume it's some specific /proc or
/sys file that I don't have. Are you able to get a strace of x86info
as it runs to see which file it is attempting to read here?

Thanks!

-Kees

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Kees Cook
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  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-30 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-30  6:44 Tommi Rantala
2017-03-30 16:45 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2017-03-30 17:20   ` Mark Rutland
2017-03-30 17:27   ` Laura Abbott
2017-03-30 17:37     ` Kees Cook
2017-03-30 17:44       ` Laura Abbott
2017-03-31  5:44         ` Tommi Rantala
2017-03-30 19:41   ` Dave Jones
2017-03-30 19:52     ` Kees Cook
2017-03-30 20:01       ` Dave Jones
2017-03-31  5:40         ` Tommi Rantala
2017-03-31  6:59           ` Tommi Rantala
2017-03-31 17:17       ` Dave Jones
2017-03-31 17:32         ` Kees Cook
2017-03-31 18:03           ` Dave Jones
2017-03-31 18:57             ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-03-31 18:26           ` Linus Torvalds
2017-03-31 19:32             ` Tommi Rantala
2017-04-04 22:37               ` Kees Cook
2017-04-04 22:55                 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-04-04 22:59                   ` Kees Cook
2017-04-05  0:22                   ` Linus Torvalds
2017-04-05 19:39                     ` Kees Cook
2017-03-31 23:58             ` Kees Cook

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