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From:
Martin Pieuchot <mpi@grenadille.net>
Subject:
Re: wired pages vs sysctl(2)
To:
tech@openbsd.org, kettenis@openbsd.org
Date:
Wed, 12 Mar 2025 15:24:25 +0100

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  • Martin Pieuchot:

    wired pages vs sysctl(2)

  • On 04/03/25(Tue) 14:45, Martin Pieuchot wrote:
    > On 27/02/25(Thu) 14:44, Martin Pieuchot wrote:
    > > Since the 90s sysctl(2) has been wiring pages that contain the syscall
    > > arguments. 
    > > 
    > > In uvm/uvm_fault.c r1.129 kettenis@ fixed one of the races exposed by
    > > syzkaller where a sibling thread munmap(2)ed the range currently wired
    > > by sysctl(2).
    > > 
    > > Sadly the fix is incomplete and the reproducer attached triggers the
    > > following panic:
    > > 
    > > panic: uvm_fault_unwire_locked: address not in map
    > > Stopped at      db_enter+0x14:  popq    %rbp
    > >     TID    PID    UID     PRFLAGS     PFLAGS  CPU  COMMAND
    > > *129832   2744      0         0x3          0    0  sysctl_wired
    > >   84116  96377      0        0x10        0x8    2  sshd-session
    > >    6897  50184      0     0x14000      0x200    1  softnet0
    > > db_enter() at db_enter+0x14
    > > panic(ffffffff8261d529) at panic+0xdd
    > > uvm_fault_unwire_locked(fffffd878156ab58,20000000,20001000) at uvm_fault_unwire
    > > _locked+0x246
    > > uvm_fault_unwire(fffffd878156ab58,20000000,20001000) at uvm_fault_unwire+0x44
    > > sysctl_vsunlock(20000040,0) at sysctl_vsunlock+0x46
    > > net_sysctl(ffff800055d411b4,3,20000040,ffff800055d411e8,20000080,c,cf641d03c835
    > > bbeb) at net_sysctl+0x309
    > > sys_sysctl(ffff800055c99c78,ffff800055d41300,ffff800055d41270) at sys_sysctl+0x
    > > 1f8
    > > syscall(ffff800055d41300) at syscall+0x5ec
    > > Xsyscall() at Xsyscall+0x128
    > >  
    > > Syzkaller has two reports for this:
    > >   https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=d9b926edfd5f64a66c58
    > >   https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=a12540517e3a76a6a490
    > > 
    > > It is not clear to my why vslock(9) is needed today.  That said the diff
    > > below completes kettenis@'s approach by making vslock similar to mlock(2).
    > > With it, vsunlock() now silently fails without crashing the kernel and I
    > > can no longer reproduce the panic.  
    > 
    > Note that there's another issue with the logic that wires pages during
    > sysctl(2).  If a page has been previously mlock(2)ed and we pass it as
    > arguments to sysctl(2), it will be munlock(2)ed when returning to
    > userland.
    
    What I said is not true.  The page will still be wired because map
    entries are properly refcounted in uvm_map_pageable_wire().
    
    With this diff the race left is the possibility to unwire a page wired
    by the kernel via sysctl(2).
    
    > As long as we need vslock(9), which is something that I don't know, might
    > want to distinguish between userland vs kernel wiring like FreeBSD do.
    
    I'm not so sure this is strictly needed.  If thread A calls sysctl(2)
    and thread B does munlock(2) on the same page, then the output of
    sysctl(2) might not be coherent.  I believe this race is acceptable.
    
    Here's the diff again, so ok?
    
    Index: uvm/uvm_fault.c
    ===================================================================
    RCS file: /cvs/src/sys/uvm/uvm_fault.c,v
    diff -u -p -r1.165 uvm_fault.c
    --- uvm/uvm_fault.c	10 Mar 2025 14:13:58 -0000	1.165
    +++ uvm/uvm_fault.c	12 Mar 2025 14:18:22 -0000
    @@ -1737,16 +1737,12 @@ uvm_fault_unwire_locked(vm_map_t map, va
     		 * find the map entry for the current address.
     		 */
     		KASSERT(va >= entry->start);
    -		while (entry && va >= entry->end) {
    +		while (va >= entry->end) {
     			next = RBT_NEXT(uvm_map_addr, entry);
    +			KASSERT(next != NULL && next->start <= entry->end);
     			entry = next;
     		}
     
    -		if (entry == NULL)
    -			return;
    -		if (va < entry->start)
    -			continue;
    -
     		/*
     		 * lock it.
     		 */
    @@ -1776,7 +1772,7 @@ uvm_fault_unwire_locked(vm_map_t map, va
     	}
     
     	if (oentry != NULL) {
    -		uvm_map_unlock_entry(oentry);
    +		uvm_map_unlock_entry(entry);
     	}
     }
     
    Index: uvm/uvm_glue.c
    ===================================================================
    RCS file: /cvs/src/sys/uvm/uvm_glue.c,v
    diff -u -p -r1.87 uvm_glue.c
    --- uvm/uvm_glue.c	28 Oct 2024 08:25:32 -0000	1.87
    +++ uvm/uvm_glue.c	12 Mar 2025 14:18:22 -0000
    @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ uvm_vslock(struct proc *p, caddr_t addr,
     	if (end <= start)
     		return (EINVAL);
     
    -	return uvm_fault_wire(map, start, end, access_type);
    +	return uvm_map_pageable(map, start, end, FALSE, 0);
     }
     
     /*
    @@ -125,13 +125,14 @@ uvm_vslock(struct proc *p, caddr_t addr,
     void
     uvm_vsunlock(struct proc *p, caddr_t addr, size_t len)
     {
    +	struct vm_map *map = &p->p_vmspace->vm_map;
     	vaddr_t start, end;
     
     	start = trunc_page((vaddr_t)addr);
     	end = round_page((vaddr_t)addr + len);
     	KASSERT(end > start);
     
    -	uvm_fault_unwire(&p->p_vmspace->vm_map, start, end);
    +	uvm_map_pageable(map, start, end, TRUE, 0);
     }
     
     /*
    
    
    
  • Martin Pieuchot:

    wired pages vs sysctl(2)