[alsa-devel] INFO: rcu detected stall in memcpy

[Takashi Iwai]

On Thu, 04 Jan 2018 15:01:06 +0100,
Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 1:57 PM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
> > On Thu, 04 Jan 2018 13:08:45 +0100,
> > Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 1:03 PM, syzbot
> >> <syzbot+387f48da65cb522abfe8 at syzkaller.appspotmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Hello,
> >> >
> >> > syzkaller hit the following crash on
> >> > 30a7acd573899fd8b8ac39236eff6468b195ac7d
> >> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/master
> >> > compiler: gcc (GCC) 7.1.1 20170620
> >> > .config is attached
> >> > Raw console output is attached.
> >> > Unfortunately, I don't have any reproducer for this bug yet.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > IMPORTANT: if you fix the bug, please add the following tag to the commit:
> >> > Reported-by: syzbot+387f48da65cb522abfe8 at syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> >> > It will help syzbot understand when the bug is fixed. See footer for
> >> > details.
> >> > If you forward the report, please keep this part and the footer.
> >>
> >> This looks ALSA-related. +ALSA maintainers.
> >
> > Not sure exactly what triggers it.  It's the simple memcpy(), and I
> > don't know where RCU is involved in that code path.
> >
> > BTW, other two suspicious RCU usage reports are actually stopped at
> > the second WARN_ON() after the RCU message, and the second WARN_ON()
> > is independent from RCU; it's the known spurious WARN_ON() and was
> > already removed in the sound git tree.
> 
> 
> Hi Takashi,
> 
> Another similar one just popped up:
> 
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/syzkaller-bugs/X3d6-PIrJM0
> 
> This looks like mulaw_decode enters an infinite loop, or at least
> doing very large amount of computations without a resched, e.g.
> (uint64_t)-1 number of iterations of something along these lines.

OK, that makes sense.

My rough guess is that it's the misconfigured aloop device by
concurrent setup.  The aloop device allows to restrict the parameters
of the other side of the connection, and something bad may happen
there if both sides are updated concurrently.

We've seen segfault by memset() at loopback_preapre() in
sound/drivers/aloop.c by syzbot+3902b5220e8ca27889ca, too, which
indicates also the wrongly setup parameters that overflows the
allocated buffer.


thanks,

Takashi