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SubjectRe: perf_fuzzer compiled for x32 causes reboot
On Mon, 24 Feb 2014, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> On February 24, 2014 8:34:30 AM PST, Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> wrote:
> >On Mon, 24 Feb 2014, Vince Weaver wrote:
> >
> >> Just touching the mmap page with a write of a single byte (it doesn't
> >
> >> matter where) is enough to trigger the bug.
> >
> >OK, investigating this more.
> >
> >perf_fuzzer-2971 [000] 154.944114: page_fault_user:
> >address=0xf7729000 ip=0x41efab error_code=0x6
> >perf_fuzzer-2971 [000] 154.944118: function:
> >ip=0xffffffff810d40e7 parent_ip=0xffffffff810d0840
> >perf_fuzzer-2971 [000] 154.944119: function:
> >ip=0xffffffff812a91a5 parent_ip=0xffffffff81013ff5
> >perf_fuzzer-2971 [000] 154.944120: function:
> >ip=0xffffffff8153837c parent_ip=0xffffffff81535432
> >perf_fuzzer-2971 [000] 154.944121: page_fault_kernel:
> >address=0x22e0 ip=0xffffffff812a7d5c error_code=0x0

> Ok, so the obvious question is what is at that kernel address?
>

It's in copy_user_generic_string()
rep movsq %ds:(%rsi),%es:(%rdi)

And looking at the ftrace:
perf_fuzzer-2979 [000] 161.475920: page_fault_user: address=__per_cpu_end ip=__per_cpu_end error_code=0x6
perf_fuzzer-2979 [000] 161.475922: function: perf_callchain
perf_fuzzer-2979 [000] 161.475922: function: copy_from_user_nmi
perf_fuzzer-2979 [000] 161.475923: function: trace_do_page_fault
perf_fuzzer-2979 [000] 161.475924: page_fault_kernel: address=irq_stack_union ip=copy_user_generic_string error_code=0x0

What is likely happening is the user page fault is triggering
code to do a "perf_callchain" dump, which is calling copy_from_user_nmi()
which calls copy_user_generic_string() which is somehow getting the user
RBP in the RDI register somehow?

Vince



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