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SubjectRe: kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 7:58 PM Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> Lovely. So something in that sequence of syscalls manages to trigger
> segfault in unrelated process. What happens if you put it to sleep
> right after open_by_handle_at() (e.g. by read(2) from fd 0, etc.)?

Added read(2) call in the reproducer, and there's no longer a segfault
in systemd, but the process is still killed
syscall(__NR_open_by_handle_at, r[0], 0x20000000ul, 0x2f00ul);
+ unsigned char buffer[1];
+ read(0, buffer, 1);
return 0;

root@sandbox:~# gcc -pthread repro.c -o repro
root@sandbox:~# ./repro
[ 450.676798] got to 221
[ 450.676881] got to 183
[ 450.677655] got to 201
[ 450.678042] got to 208
[ 450.678349] got to 210
[ 450.681404] got to 270
[ 450.707100] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
exitcode=0x0000000b
[ 450.708393] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 5.11.2+ #22
[ 450.709105] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996),
BIOS 1.14.0-1 04/01/2014
[ 450.710117] Call Trace:
[ 450.710440] dump_stack+0xb2/0xe4
[ 450.710902] panic+0x196/0x502
[ 450.711277] do_exit.cold+0x70/0x108
[ 450.711710] do_group_exit+0x78/0x120
[ 450.712161] get_signal+0x22e/0xd60
[ 450.712588] arch_do_signal_or_restart+0xef/0x890
[ 450.713165] exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x102/0x190
[ 450.713744] irqentry_exit_to_user_mode+0x9/0x20
[ 450.714340] irqentry_exit+0x19/0x30
[ 450.714817] exc_page_fault+0xc3/0x240
[ 450.715275] ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x8/0x30
[ 450.715805] asm_exc_page_fault+0x1e/0x30
[ 450.716295] RIP: 0033:0x7febb8036f10
[ 450.716738] Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at RIP 0x7febb8036ee6.
[ 450.717512] RSP: 002b:00007ffd91fec2f8 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 450.718139] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 000055c6cc268f40 RCX: 00007febb80672e3
[ 450.719030] RDX: 00007ffd91fec480 RSI: 00007ffd91fec5b0 RDI: 0000000000000007
[ 450.719877] RBP: 0000000000000007 R08: 431bde82d7b634db R09: 000000000000000b
[ 450.720681] R10: 00000000ffffffff R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffd927eb4d0
[ 450.721527] R13: 0000000000000001 R14: ffffffffffffffff R15: 0000000000000002
[ 450.722470] Kernel Offset: disabled
[ 450.722941] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill
init! exitcode=0x0000000b ]---

Added a hb at panic() and here's the backtrace from gdb:
(gdb) hb kernel/panic.c:177
Hardware assisted breakpoint 1 at 0xffffffff82201bd7: file
kernel/panic.c, line 178.
(gdb) c
Continuing.
Thread 1 hit Breakpoint 1, panic (fmt=fmt@entry=0xffffffff82bcd850
"Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x%08x\n") at kernel/panic.c:178
178 {
(gdb) bt
#0 panic (fmt=fmt@entry=0xffffffff82bcd850 "Attempted to kill init!
exitcode=0x%08x\n") at kernel/panic.c:178
#1 0xffffffff822025a3 in do_exit (code=code@entry=11) at kernel/exit.c:794
#2 0xffffffff810e6e98 in do_group_exit (exit_code=11) at kernel/exit.c:922
#3 0xffffffff810febae in get_signal
(ksig=ksig@entry=0xffffc90000013e38) at kernel/signal.c:2773
#4 0xffffffff8104fa8f in arch_do_signal_or_restart
(regs=0xffffc90000013f58, has_signal=<optimized out>) at
arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:831
#5 0xffffffff811a0602 in handle_signal_work (ti_work=<optimized out>,
regs=0xffffc90000013f58) at kernel/entry/common.c:147
#6 exit_to_user_mode_loop (ti_work=<optimized out>, regs=<optimized
out>) at kernel/entry/common.c:171
#7 exit_to_user_mode_prepare (regs=0xffffc90000013f58) at
kernel/entry/common.c:201
#8 0xffffffff8227a299 in irqentry_exit_to_user_mode (regs=<optimized
out>) at kernel/entry/common.c:307
#9 0xffffffff8227a2c9 in irqentry_exit
(regs=regs@entry=0xffffc90000013f58, state=..., state@entry=...) at
kernel/entry/common.c:395
#10 0xffffffff82279c83 in exc_page_fault (regs=0xffffc90000013f58,
error_code=20) at arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1509
#11 0xffffffff82400ade in asm_exc_page_fault () at
./arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:580
#12 0x0000000000000002 in fixed_percpu_data ()
#13 0xffffffffffffffff in ?? ()
#14 0x0000000000000001 in fixed_percpu_data ()
#15 0x00007ffdef6e1480 in ?? ()
#16 0x0000000000000007 in fixed_percpu_data ()
#17 0x000055a7e97caf40 in ?? ()
#18 0x0000000000000246 in ?? ()
#19 0x00000000ffffffff in ?? ()
#20 0x000000000000000b in fixed_percpu_data ()
#21 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()

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