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Diffstat (limited to 'sys/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | sys/linux/sys.txt | 16 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sys/linux/sys.txt b/sys/linux/sys.txt index 57af33efe..7b03e851e 100644 --- a/sys/linux/sys.txt +++ b/sys/linux/sys.txt @@ -93,7 +93,21 @@ type padto64[T] { type signalno int32[0:65] type signalnoptr intptr[0:65] -syz_execute_func(text ptr[in, text[target]]) +# syz_execute_func caused multiple problems: +# 1. First it lead to corpus explosion. The program used existing values in registers +# to pollute output area. We tried to zero registers (though, not reliably). +# 2. It lead to explosion again. The exact mechanics are unknown, here is one sample: +# syz_execute_func(&(0x7f0000000440)="f2af91930f0124eda133fa20430fbafce842f66188d0d4 +# 430fc7f314c1ab5bf9e2f9660f3a0fae5e090000ba023c1fb63ac4817d73d74ec482310d46f44 +# 9f216c863fa438036a91bdbae95aaaa420f383c02c401405c6bfd49d768d768f833fefbab6464 +# 660f38323c8f26dbc1a1fe5ff6f6df0804f4c4efa59c0f01c4288ba6452e000054c4431d5cc100") +# 3. The code can also execute syscalls (and it is know to), but it's not subject to +# target.SanitizeCall. As the result it can do things that programs are not supposed to do. +# 4. Besides linux, corpus explosion also happens on freebsd and is clearly attributable +# to syz_execute_func based on corpus contents. Mechanics are also not known. +# It also did not cause finding of any new bugs (at least not that I know of). +# So it's disabled on all OSes until we figure out how to resolve all these problems. +syz_execute_func(text ptr[in, text[target]]) (disabled) # Exclude /sys/power/state as reported in https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/5/27/653 openat$sysfs(fd const[AT_FDCWD], dir ptr[in, glob["/sys/**/*:-/sys/power/state"]], flags flags[open_flags], mode flags[open_mode]) fd |