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usb: core: urb: change a dev_WARN() to dev_err() for syzbot

Message ID 20200131050651.hlq27kehtir3agf2@kili.mountain (mailing list archive)
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Series usb: core: urb: change a dev_WARN() to dev_err() for syzbot | expand

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Dan Carpenter Jan. 31, 2020, 5:06 a.m. UTC
We changed this from dev_err() to dev_WARN() in commit 0cb54a3e47cb
("USB: debugging code shouldn't alter control flow").

The difference between dev_WARN() and dev_err() is that dev_WARN()
prints a stack trace and if you have panic on OOPS enabled then it leads
to a panic.  The dev_err() function just prints the error message.

Back in the day we didn't have usb emulators fuzz testing the kernel
so dev_WARN() didn't cause a problem for anyone, but these days the
dev_WARN() interferes with syzbot so let's change this to a dev_err().

Reported-by: syzbot+1bc2c2afd44f820a669f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
---

 drivers/usb/core/urb.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Johan Hovold Jan. 31, 2020, 1:30 p.m. UTC | #1
On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 08:06:52AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> We changed this from dev_err() to dev_WARN() in commit 0cb54a3e47cb
> ("USB: debugging code shouldn't alter control flow").
>
> The difference between dev_WARN() and dev_err() is that dev_WARN()
> prints a stack trace and if you have panic on OOPS enabled then it leads
> to a panic.  The dev_err() function just prints the error message.
> 
> Back in the day we didn't have usb emulators fuzz testing the kernel
> so dev_WARN() didn't cause a problem for anyone, but these days the
> dev_WARN() interferes with syzbot so let's change this to a dev_err().

The commit you refer to did more than just change dev_err() to
dev_WARN(); it also stopped returning an error in case a driver
submitted an URB for an endpoint of the wrong type. At that point in
time all this was dependent on CONFIG_USB_DEBUG however.

> Reported-by: syzbot+1bc2c2afd44f820a669f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> ---
> 
>  drivers/usb/core/urb.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/urb.c b/drivers/usb/core/urb.c
> index da923ec17612..0980c1d2253d 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/core/urb.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/core/urb.c
> @@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ int usb_submit_urb(struct urb *urb, gfp_t mem_flags)
>  
>  	/* Check that the pipe's type matches the endpoint's type */
>  	if (usb_urb_ep_type_check(urb))
> -		dev_WARN(&dev->dev, "BOGUS urb xfer, pipe %x != type %x\n",
> +		dev_err(&dev->dev, "BOGUS urb xfer, pipe %x != type %x\n",
>  			usb_pipetype(urb->pipe), pipetypes[xfertype]);
>  
>  	/* Check against a simple/standard policy */

It seems this change would just be papering over these driver bugs. The
dev_WARN() is there in the first place to allow us to catch them.

Even if it takes some work, it should be doable to track down and add
the missing sanity checks to the drivers that lack them. Some have
already been fixed, and I have some more pending patches to fix or add
helpers to simplify fixing the remaining ones.

Johan
Dan Carpenter Jan. 31, 2020, 1:39 p.m. UTC | #2
On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 02:30:04PM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > Reported-by: syzbot+1bc2c2afd44f820a669f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> > ---
> > 
> >  drivers/usb/core/urb.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/urb.c b/drivers/usb/core/urb.c
> > index da923ec17612..0980c1d2253d 100644
> > --- a/drivers/usb/core/urb.c
> > +++ b/drivers/usb/core/urb.c
> > @@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ int usb_submit_urb(struct urb *urb, gfp_t mem_flags)
> >  
> >  	/* Check that the pipe's type matches the endpoint's type */
> >  	if (usb_urb_ep_type_check(urb))
> > -		dev_WARN(&dev->dev, "BOGUS urb xfer, pipe %x != type %x\n",
> > +		dev_err(&dev->dev, "BOGUS urb xfer, pipe %x != type %x\n",
> >  			usb_pipetype(urb->pipe), pipetypes[xfertype]);
> >  
> >  	/* Check against a simple/standard policy */
> 
> It seems this change would just be papering over these driver bugs. The
> dev_WARN() is there in the first place to allow us to catch them.
> 
> Even if it takes some work, it should be doable to track down and add
> the missing sanity checks to the drivers that lack them. Some have
> already been fixed, and I have some more pending patches to fix or add
> helpers to simplify fixing the remaining ones.

Ah, fine.  I misunderstood what the warning message was about.

regards,
dan carpenter
Greg Kroah-Hartman Feb. 10, 2020, 7:04 p.m. UTC | #3
On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 08:06:52AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> We changed this from dev_err() to dev_WARN() in commit 0cb54a3e47cb
> ("USB: debugging code shouldn't alter control flow").
> 
> The difference between dev_WARN() and dev_err() is that dev_WARN()
> prints a stack trace and if you have panic on OOPS enabled then it leads
> to a panic.  The dev_err() function just prints the error message.
> 
> Back in the day we didn't have usb emulators fuzz testing the kernel
> so dev_WARN() didn't cause a problem for anyone, but these days the
> dev_WARN() interferes with syzbot so let's change this to a dev_err().
> 
> Reported-by: syzbot+1bc2c2afd44f820a669f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> ---
> 
>  drivers/usb/core/urb.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/urb.c b/drivers/usb/core/urb.c
> index da923ec17612..0980c1d2253d 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/core/urb.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/core/urb.c
> @@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ int usb_submit_urb(struct urb *urb, gfp_t mem_flags)
>  
>  	/* Check that the pipe's type matches the endpoint's type */
>  	if (usb_urb_ep_type_check(urb))
> -		dev_WARN(&dev->dev, "BOGUS urb xfer, pipe %x != type %x\n",
> +		dev_err(&dev->dev, "BOGUS urb xfer, pipe %x != type %x\n",
>  			usb_pipetype(urb->pipe), pipetypes[xfertype]);

Like others said, we should have the stack trace here.  So can you
change this to dev_warn() and a stacktrace?

thanks,

greg k-h
Alan Stern Feb. 10, 2020, 9:11 p.m. UTC | #4
On Mon, 10 Feb 2020, Greg KH wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 08:06:52AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > We changed this from dev_err() to dev_WARN() in commit 0cb54a3e47cb
> > ("USB: debugging code shouldn't alter control flow").
> > 
> > The difference between dev_WARN() and dev_err() is that dev_WARN()
> > prints a stack trace and if you have panic on OOPS enabled then it leads
> > to a panic.  The dev_err() function just prints the error message.
> > 
> > Back in the day we didn't have usb emulators fuzz testing the kernel
> > so dev_WARN() didn't cause a problem for anyone, but these days the
> > dev_WARN() interferes with syzbot so let's change this to a dev_err().
> > 
> > Reported-by: syzbot+1bc2c2afd44f820a669f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> > ---
> > 
> >  drivers/usb/core/urb.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/urb.c b/drivers/usb/core/urb.c
> > index da923ec17612..0980c1d2253d 100644
> > --- a/drivers/usb/core/urb.c
> > +++ b/drivers/usb/core/urb.c
> > @@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ int usb_submit_urb(struct urb *urb, gfp_t mem_flags)
> >  
> >  	/* Check that the pipe's type matches the endpoint's type */
> >  	if (usb_urb_ep_type_check(urb))
> > -		dev_WARN(&dev->dev, "BOGUS urb xfer, pipe %x != type %x\n",
> > +		dev_err(&dev->dev, "BOGUS urb xfer, pipe %x != type %x\n",
> >  			usb_pipetype(urb->pipe), pipetypes[xfertype]);
> 
> Like others said, we should have the stack trace here.  So can you
> change this to dev_warn() and a stacktrace?

In fact we want both a stack trace and a syzbot notification, because 
this particular error indicates a bug in a kernel driver.  Therefore 
dev_WARN is appropriate.

Alan Stern

> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
Greg Kroah-Hartman Feb. 10, 2020, 9:50 p.m. UTC | #5
On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 04:11:10PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Feb 2020, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 08:06:52AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > We changed this from dev_err() to dev_WARN() in commit 0cb54a3e47cb
> > > ("USB: debugging code shouldn't alter control flow").
> > > 
> > > The difference between dev_WARN() and dev_err() is that dev_WARN()
> > > prints a stack trace and if you have panic on OOPS enabled then it leads
> > > to a panic.  The dev_err() function just prints the error message.
> > > 
> > > Back in the day we didn't have usb emulators fuzz testing the kernel
> > > so dev_WARN() didn't cause a problem for anyone, but these days the
> > > dev_WARN() interferes with syzbot so let's change this to a dev_err().
> > > 
> > > Reported-by: syzbot+1bc2c2afd44f820a669f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> > > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> > > ---
> > > 
> > >  drivers/usb/core/urb.c | 2 +-
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/urb.c b/drivers/usb/core/urb.c
> > > index da923ec17612..0980c1d2253d 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/usb/core/urb.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/usb/core/urb.c
> > > @@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ int usb_submit_urb(struct urb *urb, gfp_t mem_flags)
> > >  
> > >  	/* Check that the pipe's type matches the endpoint's type */
> > >  	if (usb_urb_ep_type_check(urb))
> > > -		dev_WARN(&dev->dev, "BOGUS urb xfer, pipe %x != type %x\n",
> > > +		dev_err(&dev->dev, "BOGUS urb xfer, pipe %x != type %x\n",
> > >  			usb_pipetype(urb->pipe), pipetypes[xfertype]);
> > 
> > Like others said, we should have the stack trace here.  So can you
> > change this to dev_warn() and a stacktrace?
> 
> In fact we want both a stack trace and a syzbot notification, because 
> this particular error indicates a bug in a kernel driver.  Therefore 
> dev_WARN is appropriate.

Ok, nevermind, you are right we should fix up the driver if that
happens.

greg k-h
Dan Carpenter Feb. 11, 2020, 6:03 a.m. UTC | #6
On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 11:04:19AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 08:06:52AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > We changed this from dev_err() to dev_WARN() in commit 0cb54a3e47cb
> > ("USB: debugging code shouldn't alter control flow").
> > 
> > The difference between dev_WARN() and dev_err() is that dev_WARN()
> > prints a stack trace and if you have panic on OOPS enabled then it leads
> > to a panic.  The dev_err() function just prints the error message.
> > 
> > Back in the day we didn't have usb emulators fuzz testing the kernel
> > so dev_WARN() didn't cause a problem for anyone, but these days the
> > dev_WARN() interferes with syzbot so let's change this to a dev_err().
> > 
> > Reported-by: syzbot+1bc2c2afd44f820a669f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> > ---
> > 
> >  drivers/usb/core/urb.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/urb.c b/drivers/usb/core/urb.c
> > index da923ec17612..0980c1d2253d 100644
> > --- a/drivers/usb/core/urb.c
> > +++ b/drivers/usb/core/urb.c
> > @@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ int usb_submit_urb(struct urb *urb, gfp_t mem_flags)
> >  
> >  	/* Check that the pipe's type matches the endpoint's type */
> >  	if (usb_urb_ep_type_check(urb))
> > -		dev_WARN(&dev->dev, "BOGUS urb xfer, pipe %x != type %x\n",
> > +		dev_err(&dev->dev, "BOGUS urb xfer, pipe %x != type %x\n",
> >  			usb_pipetype(urb->pipe), pipetypes[xfertype]);
> 
> Like others said, we should have the stack trace here.  So can you
> change this to dev_warn() and a stacktrace?
> 

Let's just fix the driver instead.  That was the message I got from the
thread.

regards,
dan carpenter
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diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/urb.c b/drivers/usb/core/urb.c
index da923ec17612..0980c1d2253d 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/urb.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/urb.c
@@ -475,7 +475,7 @@  int usb_submit_urb(struct urb *urb, gfp_t mem_flags)
 
 	/* Check that the pipe's type matches the endpoint's type */
 	if (usb_urb_ep_type_check(urb))
-		dev_WARN(&dev->dev, "BOGUS urb xfer, pipe %x != type %x\n",
+		dev_err(&dev->dev, "BOGUS urb xfer, pipe %x != type %x\n",
 			usb_pipetype(urb->pipe), pipetypes[xfertype]);
 
 	/* Check against a simple/standard policy */