Thread (10 messages) flat view 10 messages, 6 authors, 2018-02-14

Re: lost connection to test machine (4)

From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Date: 2018-02-12 17:00:21
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On 02/12/2018 05:03 PM, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 5:00 PM, syzbot
[off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
Hello,

syzbot hit the following crash on bpf-next commit
617aebe6a97efa539cc4b8a52adccd89596e6be0 (Sun Feb 4 00:25:42 2018 +0000)
Merge tag 'usercopy-v4.16-rc1' of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux

So far this crash happened 898 times on bpf-next, net-next, upstream.
C reproducer is attached.
syzkaller reproducer is attached.
Raw console output is attached.
compiler: gcc (GCC) 7.1.1 20170620
.config is attached.
The reproducer first causes several tasks spending minutes at this stack:

[  110.762189] NMI backtrace for cpu 2
[  110.762206] CPU: 2 PID: 3760 Comm: syz-executor Not tainted 4.15.0+ #96
[  110.762210] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996),
BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
[  110.762224] RIP: 0010:mutex_spin_on_owner+0x303/0x420
[  110.762232] INFO: NMI handler (nmi_cpu_backtrace_handler) took too
long to run: 1.103 msecs
[  110.762237] RSP: 0018:ffff88005be470e8 EFLAGS: 00000246
[  110.762268] RAX: ffff88006ca00000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffffff81554165
[  110.762275] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 1ffffffff0d97884 RDI: 0000000000000000
[  110.762281] RBP: ffff88005be47210 R08: dffffc0000000001 R09: fffffbfff0db2b75
[  110.762286] R10: fffffbfff0db2b74 R11: ffffffff86d95ba7 R12: ffffffff86d95ba0
[  110.762292] R13: ffffed000b7c8e25 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: ffff880064691040
[  110.762300] FS:  00007f84ed029700(0000) GS:ffff88006cb00000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
[  110.762305] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[  110.762311] CR2: 00007fd565f7b1b0 CR3: 000000005bddf002 CR4: 00000000001606e0
[  110.762316] Call Trace:
[  110.762383]  __mutex_lock.isra.1+0x97d/0x1440
[  110.762659]  __mutex_lock_slowpath+0xe/0x10
[  110.762668]  mutex_lock+0x3e/0x50
[  110.762677]  pcpu_alloc+0x846/0xfe0
[  110.762778]  __alloc_percpu_gfp+0x27/0x30
[  110.762801]  array_map_alloc+0x484/0x690
[  110.762832]  SyS_bpf+0xa27/0x4770
[  110.763190]  do_syscall_64+0x297/0x760
[  110.763260]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x21/0x86

and later machine dies with:

[  191.484308] Kernel panic - not syncing: Out of memory and no
killable processes...
[  191.484308]
[  191.485740] CPU: 3 PID: 746 Comm: kworker/3:1 Not tainted 4.15.0+ #96
[  191.486761] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996),
BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
[  191.488071] Workqueue: events pcpu_balance_workfn
[  191.488821] Call Trace:
[  191.489299]  dump_stack+0x175/0x225
[  191.490590]  panic+0x22a/0x4be
[  191.493061]  out_of_memory.cold.31+0x20/0x21
[  191.496380]  __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x1d98/0x28a0
[  191.503616]  __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x89c/0xc60
[  191.507876]  pcpu_populate_chunk+0x1fd/0x9b0
[  191.510114]  pcpu_balance_workfn+0x1019/0x1450
[  191.517804]  process_one_work+0x9d5/0x1460
[  191.522714]  worker_thread+0x1cc/0x1410
[  191.529319]  kthread+0x304/0x3c0

The original message with attachments is here:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/syzkaller-bugs/Km3xEZu9zzU/rO-7XuwZAgAJ
[ +Dennis, +Tejun ]

Looks like we're stuck in percpu allocator with key/value size of 4 bytes
each and large number of entries (max_entries) in the reproducer in above
link.

Could we have some __GFP_NORETRY semantics and let allocations fail instead
of triggering OOM killer?
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