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#1 2013-05-07 16:30:35

combuster
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[SMACK] kernel panic after systemd-203 update

I am running a custom 3.9 kernel and after update to systemd 203-1 from testing I get this:

WARNING: at drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc.c:82 drm_warn_on_modeset_not_all_locked+0x8d/0xc0()

I guess its related to:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/dri-devel/msg37954.html

Just a heads up, had to boot from usb flash and chroot and downgrade to systemd 202-2. Anybody else with this problem, Intel HD2000 here?

I know that kernel is not from the testing repo but I guess it should apply also (this one is pure mainline kernel, just stripped down for my configuration).

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#2 2013-05-07 20:55:53

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Re: [SMACK] kernel panic after systemd-203 update

I have [testing] enabled on my laptop and am experiencing no such problems; different video though (nvidia).


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#3 2013-05-07 21:03:14

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Re: [SMACK] kernel panic after systemd-203 update

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kerne … b8657a58d8

I guess this should fix it, but I still don't have a clue why systemd 203 triggers this in my case, anyway that panic notifier is bogus as explained in the link in the first post, and AFAICT this patch addresses that very same issue. Pull request is for 3.10 but I really hope they will backport this to 3.9.1 (if not I'll do it myself if it doesn't brake the API too much big_smile). For now I have to stay with systemd 202.

Thanks graysky, another archer reported that systemd upgrade went smoothly for him also, so for now I really hope this is an isolated case.

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#4 2013-05-07 21:55:50

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Re: [SMACK] kernel panic after systemd-203 update

After compiling the kernel from Daniel Vetter's intel-drm tree regarding this commit  in particular

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~danvet/drm … 3778993a1d

I can see the real culprit for the kernel panic:

systemdpanic.jpg

So a NULL pointer dereference bug triggered by systemd. Now I can search for relevant bug reports or submit one if there are none...

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#5 2013-05-09 00:10:52

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Re: [SMACK] kernel panic after systemd-203 update

combuster wrote:

So a NULL pointer dereference bug triggered by systemd. Now I can search for relevant bug reports or submit one if there are none...

Really? Because it looks like something in SMACK is at fault here based on the trace. I can't possibly see how a userspace process could be considered directly responsible for a kernel panic.

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#6 2013-05-09 04:53:00

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Re: [SMACK] kernel panic after systemd-203 update

Lennart said that also, so I've filed this on kernel bugzilla.

Why I was confused at the moment was because of the fact that I have never had a kernel panic after updating. It was in 99% of cases induced after a kernel upgrade. I havent had a clue where this report should be filed up against (ext4 was there because of the xattrs but I wasn't sure).

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#7 2013-05-09 09:19:04

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Re: [SMACK] kernel panic after systemd-203 update

Got the same. Checked with selinux - it has a comment about the dget() call from which the NULL pointer came, that it can return NULL on boot - but smack doesn't seem to check dget()'s result before sending it off to a getxattr() call.

going to test the following change soon, I'm in a hurry to get my stuff working after a few update-breaks; and compiling a kernel takes ages here so I thought I'd drop off this paste here as the backtrace above was useful (my screen wasn't big enough to show the important parts of it tongue)

--- security/smack/smack_lsm.c.old      2013-05-09 11:09:28.433490642 +0200
+++ security/smack/smack_lsm.c  2013-05-09 11:09:30.218428573 +0200
@@ -2589,6 +2589,8 @@ static void smack_d_instantiate(struct d
                 * Get the dentry for xattr.
                 */
                dp = dget(opt_dentry);
+               if (dp == NULL)
+                       goto unlockandout;
                fetched = smk_fetch(XATTR_NAME_SMACK, inode, dp);
                if (fetched != NULL)
                        final = fetched;

(in SELinux it's `goto out_unlock' where the same as in smack's unlockandout part happens, and the function comes from selinux_d_instantiate, so I hope this is okay)

/me hurries off while the kernel is compiling for the next 2 hours...

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#8 2013-05-09 09:50:43

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Re: [SMACK] kernel panic after systemd-203 update

Your machine should be faster, I can't try this out for another four hours, but I'll test it as soon as I get home. Please post back with the results big_smile

/edit: Learned a lot from your posts guys, thnx big time

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#9 2013-05-09 11:56:43

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Re: [SMACK] kernel panic after systemd-203 update

Still panicking, just not necessarily in the getxattr call. When I find the time I'll look more into it.


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#10 2013-05-09 17:04:57

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Re: [SMACK] kernel panic after systemd-203 update

What about todays update to systemd 204? Warning: you have to edit the kernel line: init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd

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#11 2013-05-09 17:16:17

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Re: [SMACK] kernel panic after systemd-203 update

Thorsten Reinbold wrote:

What about todays update to systemd 204? Warning: you have to edit the kernel line: init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd

Again, this has nothing to do with systemd. It's a kernel bug.

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#12 2013-05-09 17:22:11

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Re: [SMACK] kernel panic after systemd-203 update

Ok, sorry. I haven't noticed your post about that.

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#13 2013-05-09 18:22:29

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Re: [SMACK] kernel panic after systemd-203 update

Well I did what I could for now - I've disabled SMAC in kernel, recompiled and there's no panic. But I'll probably find the time tonight to look a bit closely at the panics (now I have a working kernel with systemd-204) and try to find the culprit. Also I'm there to confirm if any of the Blµb's patches work for me.

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#14 2013-05-10 07:15:59

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Re: [SMACK] kernel panic after systemd-203 update

might be a good idea to update the topic title (remove the systemd part)
Also, you didn't actually need to recompile a kernel without smack smile just don't activate it (ie remove `security=smack' from the kernel commandline, unless you made the kernel default to it - I always let it default to DAC and specify the security system in grub.cfg for such reasons smile)
Tried to patch it in a different way too, didn't work - but I also have the problem that my screen's not big enough to show a full trace neutral so the upper half (the actually important functions) are cut off, so I'd need to setup a VM to actually debug this.


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#15 2013-05-10 08:39:23

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Re: [SMACK] kernel panic after systemd-203 update

No need to, I've contacted Casey Schaufler and asked him to take a look at the bug report

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57791

Solution is there, I just need to test it as soon as I get off work (not for another 7-8hrs).

/edit: Good point about configuring default security protocol as a kernel parameter, didn't crossed my mind before, thnx!

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#16 2013-05-10 18:52:01

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Re: [SMACK] kernel panic after systemd-203 update

Blµb, is this patch working for you, I still get the panic...

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#17 2013-05-10 22:15:52

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Re: [SMACK] kernel panic after systemd-203 update

Here is the one that works for me:

diff --git a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
index d52c780..2ceafae 100644
--- a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
+++ b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
@@ -59,7 +59,8 @@ static char *smk_fetch(const char *name, struct inode *ip, struct dentry *dp)
        char *buffer;
        char *result = NULL;
 
-       if (ip->i_op->getxattr == NULL)
+       if (ip->i_op->getxattr == NULL || dp->d_inode == NULL ||
+           dp->d_fsdata == NULL)
                return NULL;
 
        buffer = kzalloc(SMK_LONGLABEL, GFP_KERNEL);

Blµb, how about you?

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#18 2013-05-13 10:21:49

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Re: [SMACK] kernel panic after systemd-203 update

didn't get a chance to test yet, sorry, and this week's gonna be busy... but it looks okay, however do you use both patches or just that one? As then I'd still worry about the dp pointer being NULL at some point, though I don't know the surroundings well enough to be certain.


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#19 2013-05-13 17:05:47

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Re: [SMACK] kernel panic after systemd-203 update

That is for the cgroup dev's to solve, this is just a quick fixup for the smack.

The last patch is ok, it's essentially the same one just added check for fsdata. Casey wrote it pretty quick...

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