** Description changed:
- TBD
+ [Impact]
+ * We had a recent report of a kernel crash due to a NULL pointer dereference
in a Bionic 4.15 derivative kernel, as per the following log collected:
+
+ [...]
+ [537105.767348] SLUB: Unable to allocate memory on node -1,
gfp=0x14000c0(GFP_KERNEL)
+ [...]
+ [537105.767368] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
0000000000000008
+ [537105.777711] IP: kernfs_kill_sb+0x31/0x70
+ [537105.783582] PGD 0 P4D 0
+ [537105.787844] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP PTI
+ [...]
+ RIP: 0010:kernfs_kill_sb+0x31/0x70
+ RSP: 0018:ffffb90aec1afd00 EFLAGS: 00010286
+ RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff9fdbd567d900 RCX: ffffa0143885ae01
+ RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffa0143885ae00 RDI: ffffffffa2937c40
+ RBP: ffffb90aec1afd10 R08: ffffa0150b581510 R09: 000000018100004d
+ R10: ffffb90aec1afcd8 R11: 0000000000000100 R12: ffffa01436e43000
+ R13: ffffa01436e43000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff9fdbd567d900
+ FS: 00007fe41a615b80(0000) GS:ffffa01afea40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
+ CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
+ CR2: 0000000000000008 CR3: 0000007dfe3cc003 CR4: 00000000003606e0
+ DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
+ DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
+ Call Trace:
+ sysfs_kill_sb+0x1f/0x40
+ deactivate_locked_super+0x48/0x80
+ kernfs_mount_ns+0x1eb/0x230
+ sysfs_mount+0x66/0xc0
+ mount_fs+0x37/0x160
+ ? alloc_vfsmnt+0x1b3/0x230
+ vfs_kern_mount.part.24+0x5d/0x110
+ do_mount+0x5ed/0xce0
+ [...]
+
+ * The following detailed call stack plus the disassembly help to
+ understand the cause of the issue:
+
+ mount_fs()
+ --sysfs_mount()
+ ----kernfs_mount_ns() <inlined kernfs_fill_super() fails, very likely due to
being unable to allocate memory>
+ ------deactivate_locked_super() <given the callback .kill_sb = sysfs_kill_sb,
next function is called>
+ --------sysfs_kill_sb()
+ ----------kernfs_kill_sb() <OOPS due to the unitialized list>
+
+ The below disassembly of kernfs_kill_sb() clarifies exactly the issue:
+
+ ffffffff812f46e0 <kernfs_kill_sb>:
+ [ ... prologue ...]
+ 48 8b 9f 08 04 00 00 mov 0x408(%rdi),%rbx # %rbx = kernfs_super_info
*info = sb->s_fs_info
+ 49 89 fc mov %rdi,%r12 # %r12 = super_block *sb
+ 48 c7 c7 40 7c 53 82 mov $0xffffffff82537c40,%rdi # %rdi =
&kernfs_mutex (global)
+ ffffffff812f46f9: R_X86_64_32S kernfs_mutex
+ e8 ee da 67 00 callq ffffffff819721f0 <mutex_lock> #
mutex_lock(&kernfs_mutex);
+ [...]
+ 48 8b 53 18 mov 0x18(%rbx),%rdx # %rdx = info->node
+ 48 8b 43 20 mov 0x20(%rbx),%rax # based on splat, RAX == 0x0
[info->head.prev]
+ 48 89 42 08 mov %rax,0x8(%rdx) # <- OOPS [tried to assign
next->prev = prev, see __list_del()]
+ 48 89 10 mov %rdx,(%rax)
+ 48 b8 00 01 00 00 00 movabs $0xdead000000000100,%rax # node->next =
LIST_POISON1
+ [...]
+
+ * The fix for this issue comes from upstream commit 82382acec0c9
+ ("kernfs: deal with kernfs_fill_super() failures"); this commit is a
+ very trivial fix that adds an INIT_LIST_HEAD(&info->node) in
+ kernfs_mount_ns(), making the list prev/next pointers valid since the
+ beginning. Unfortunately this commit wasn't CCed to stable email when
+ sent, so it wasn't automatically picked up by Ubuntu kernel; now it was
+ properly submitted to stable list [0].
+
+ * Along with this fix, we found another commit (7b745a4e4051) which is a
+ small/simple fix to correlated code, that also should have been sent to
+ 4.14.y stable branch, but for some reason wasn't. Since both commits
+ were accepted in linux-stable, we are hereby proposing the backport for
+ Ubuntu kernel 4.15.
+
+ [0]
+ https://lore.kernel.org/stable/[email protected]/
+
+
+ [Test Case]
+ * We don't have a real test case, although low-memory condition or an
artificial kprobe reproducer could easily trigger the issue.
+
+ * We booted a qemu virtual machine with a kernel containing both patches
+ with no issues.
+
+
+ [Where problems could occur]
+ * The likelihood of issues are low, specially due to the fact both patches
are very simple and they are on upstream kernel for more than 3 years (and were
quickly accepted in 4.14.y stable branch last week).
+
+ * With that sad, the second patch could potentially introduce issues
+ with super_block references - I honestly cannot conceive any issues
+ potentially caused by patch 1.
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