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SubjectRe: linux 5.14.3: free_user_ns causes NULL pointer dereference
On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 10:17 AM Eric W. Biederman
<ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
>
> Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> writes:
>
> > On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 4:42 PM Jordan Glover
> > <Golden_Miller83@protonmail.ch> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wednesday, September 15th, 2021 at 9:02 PM, <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Jordan Glover Golden_Miller83@protonmail.ch writes:
> >> >
> >> > > Hi, recently I hit system freeze after I was closing few containerized apps on my system. As for now it occurred only once on linux 5.14.3. I think it maybe be related to "Count rlimits in each user namespace" patchset merged during 5.14 window
> >> > >
> >> > > https://lore.kernel.org/all/257aa5fb1a7d81cf0f4c34f39ada2320c4284771.1619094428.git.legion@kernel.org/T/#u
> >> >
> >> > So that warning comes from:
> >> >
> >> > void dec_ucount(struct ucounts *ucounts, enum ucount_type type)
> >> >
> >> > {
> >> >
> >> > struct ucounts *iter;
> >> >
> >> > for (iter = ucounts; iter; iter = iter->ns->ucounts) {
> >> >
> >> > long dec = atomic_long_dec_if_positive(&iter->ucount[type]);
> >> >
> >> > WARN_ON_ONCE(dec < 0);
> >> > }
> >> > put_ucounts(ucounts);
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > }
> >> >
> >> > Which certainly looks like a reference count bug. It could also be a
> >> >
> >> > memory stomp somewhere close.
> >> >
> >> > Do you have any idea what else was going on? This location is the
> >> >
> >> > symptom but not the actual cause.
> >> >
> >> > Eric
> >>
> >> I had about 2 containerized (flatpak/bubblewrap) apps (browser + music player) running . I quickly closed them with intent to shutdown the system but instead get the freeze and had to use magic sysrq to reboot. System logs end with what I posted and before there is nothing suspicious.
> >>
> >> Maybe it's some random fluke. I'll reply if I hit it again.
> >
> > I have been able to steadily reproduce this for a while. But I haven't
> > had time to look into it. I'd appreciate any help.
>
> It would be very helpful if you could look farther back in your logs and
> see if you can also see:
> WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 351 at kernel/ucount.c:253 dec_ucount+0x43/0x5
>
> Or anything else preceding the use-after-free.
>
> I am inclined to think they are the same issue but without seeing the
> WARN_ON_ONCE I can't safely conclude that.

It was either the WARN_ON_ONCE or the KASAN before my kernel crashed.
(KASAN is on for both cases.)

[ 3049.540734] ------------[ cut here ]------------^M
[ 3049.545557] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 8369 at kernel/ucount.c:253
dec_ucount+0xb0/0xd8^M
[ 3049.553293] Modules linked in: vhost_vsock vhost vhost_iotlb
vmw_vsock_virtio_transport_common vsock rfcomm algif_hash
algif_skcipher af_alg uinput uvcvideo videobuf2_vmalloc venus_enc
venus_dec videobuf2_dma_contig videobuf2_memops cros_ec_typec typec
hci_uart btqca bluetooth ecdh_generic ecc venus_core v4l2_mem2mem
videobuf2_v4l2 videobuf2_common qcom_q6v5_mss ipa qcom_pil_info
qcom_q6v5 qcom_common xt_MASQUERADE rmtfs_mem fuse ath10k_snoc
qmi_helpers ath10k_core ath mac80211 lzo_rle lzo_compress cfg80211
zram smsc smsc95xx usbnet mii joydev^M
[ 3049.603135] CPU: 0 PID: 8369 Comm: kworker/0:2 Not tainted
5.14.0-lockdep+ #4^M
[ 3049.610506] Hardware name: Google Lazor (rev3+) with KB Backlight (DT)^M
[ 3049.617230] Workqueue: events free_user_ns^M
[ 3049.621494] pstate: a0400009 (NzCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO BTYPE=--)^M
[ 3049.627694] pc : dec_ucount+0xb0/0xd8^M
[ 3049.631489] lr : dec_ucount+0x50/0xd8^M
[ 3049.635280] sp : ffffffc019ff7b50^M
[ 3049.638707] x29: ffffffc019ff7b50 x28: ffffffd5b5d8b710 x27:
ffffff80884cae90^M
[ 3049.646083] x26: dfffffc000000000 x25: ffffffd5b5de98a0 x24:
0000000000000001^M
[ 3049.653460] x23: ffffff80d2597100 x22: 0000000000000000 x21:
dfffffc000000000^M
[ 3049.660838] x20: ffffff80d2597120 x19: ffffff80d2597100 x18:
1ffffff01b4b3f48^M
[ 3049.668210] x17: 1ffffff01b4b3f47 x16: 0000000000000000 x15:
0000000000000000^M
[ 3049.675585] x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 000000002b0cc34b x12:
0000000024966d0f^M
[ 3049.682960] x11: 0000000000000000 x10: dfffffc000000001 x9 :
0000000000000000^M
[ 3049.690334] x8 : ffffff80d259791f x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 :
ffffffd5b3de71c4^M
[ 3049.697709] x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 :
ffffffd5b3391ca4^M
[ 3049.705086] x2 : 0000000000000001 x1 : 0000000000000008 x0 :
0000000000000001^M
[ 3049.712459] Call trace:^M
[ 3049.715003] dec_ucount+0xb0/0xd8^M
[ 3049.718443] free_user_ns+0x1b0/0x288^M
[ 3049.722242] process_one_work+0x7b4/0x10ec^M
[ 3049.726485] worker_thread+0x800/0xcf4^M
[ 3049.730377] kthread+0x2a8/0x358^M
[ 3049.733736] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18^M
[ 3049.737445] irq event stamp: 0^M
[ 3049.740612] hardirqs last enabled at (0): [<0000000000000000>] 0x0^M
[ 3049.747092] hardirqs last disabled at (0): [<ffffffd5b331413c>]
copy_process+0xcb0/0x2a54^M
[ 3049.755521] softirqs last enabled at (0): [<ffffffd5b3314164>]
copy_process+0xcd8/0x2a54^M
[ 3049.763954] softirqs last disabled at (0): [<0000000000000000>] 0x0^M
[ 3049.770432] ---[ end trace fa55518c981c0c5d ]---^M

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