[Bug 2115447] Re: Ubuntu 24.04.2: NULL pointer dereference with Ceph and selinux
Massimiliano Pellizzer
2115447 at bugs.launchpad.net
Fri Jul 18 08:06:40 UTC 2025
I can confirm that the patch you mentioned solves the problem. I will
forward it to the mailing for inclusion in the next release.
$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu-noble-amd64-tester 6.8.0-70-generic #70 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Jul 18 07:25:38 UTC 2025 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ sudo snap install microceph
2025-07-18T07:56:10Z INFO Waiting for automatic snapd restart...
microceph (squid/stable) 19.2.0+snapab139d4a1f from Canonical✓ installed
$ sudo microceph cluster bootstrap
$ sudo microceph.ceph osd crush rule rm replicated_rule
$ sudo microceph.ceph osd crush rule create-replicated single default osd
$ sudo microceph disk add /dev/sdb --wipe
+----------+---------+
| PATH | STATUS |
+----------+---------+
| /dev/sdb | Success |
+----------+---------+
$ sudo microceph.ceph config set global osd_pool_default_size 1
$ sudo microceph.ceph osd pool create cephfs_metadata 8
pool 'cephfs_metadata' created
$ sudo microceph.ceph osd pool create cephfs_data 8
pool 'cephfs_data' created
$ sudo microceph.ceph fs new cephfs cephfs_metadata cephfs_data
Pool 'cephfs_data' (id '3') has pg autoscale mode 'on' but is not marked as bulk.
Consider setting the flag by running
# ceph osd pool set cephfs_data bulk true
new fs with metadata pool 2 and data pool 3
$ sudo apt install selinux-basics selinux-policy-default -y && sudo selinux-activate
...
SE Linux is activated. You may need to reboot now.
$ sudo reboot
$ sudo mkdir -p /mnt/cephfs
$ sudo microceph.ceph auth get-or-create client.admin mon 'allow *' mds 'allow *' osd 'allow *' mgr 'allow *'
[client.admin]
key = XXXYYYZZZ
$ sudo mount -t ceph $(hostname -I | awk '{print $1}'):6789:/ /mnt/cephfs -o name=admin,secret=XXXYYYZZZ
$ sudo touch /mnt/cephfs/test.txt
$ ll /mnt/cephfs/
total 4
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 1 Jul 18 08:05 ./
drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 4096 Jul 18 08:04 ../
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Jul 18 08:05 test.txt
** No longer affects: ceph (Ubuntu)
** No longer affects: apparmor (Ubuntu)
** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu Noble)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged => Invalid
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Noble)
Status: New => In Progress
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Noble)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Massimiliano Pellizzer (mpellizzer)
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Title:
Ubuntu 24.04.2: NULL pointer dereference with Ceph and selinux
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in linux source package in Noble:
In Progress
Bug description:
Upgraded ceph cluster running ceph to 24.04.2 from Ubuntu 22. Turning
on selinux (permissive), hit a kernel null reference when mounting
cephfs and trying to touch a file:
1. Update cluster to 24.04
2. Verify ceph is working as intended (able to mount cephFS, write out
a file, unmount, etc.)
3. Installed selinux packages
4. Added following to grub on all 3 cluster members:
"audit=1 audit_backlog_limit=8192 panic=10 security=selinux selinux=1 apparmor=0"
5. Selinux policy is permissive:
root at ceph0:~# sestatus
SELinux status: enabled
SELinuxfs mount: /sys/fs/selinux
SELinux root directory: /etc/selinux
Loaded policy name: default
Current mode: permissive
Mode from config file: permissive
Policy MLS status: enabled
Policy deny_unknown status: allowed
Memory protection checking: actual (secure)
Max kernel policy version: 33
root at ceph0:~#
6. Mounted ceph fs:
mount -t ceph admin at .cephfs=/ /var/lib/libvirt/images -o ms_mode=secure
7. attempted to write a file, did not complete and null reference reported:
[ 86.678570] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000001d
[ 86.679238] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[ 86.679859] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[ 86.680445] PGD 0 P4D 0
[ 86.681021] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
[ 86.681558] CPU: 0 PID: 2818 Comm: touch Not tainted 6.8.0-62-generic #65-Ubuntu
[ 86.682095] Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 11/12/2020
[ 86.682716] RIP: 0010:memcpy_orig+0x54/0x130
[ 86.683267] Code: 89 07 4c 89 4f 08 4c 89 57 10 4c 89 5f 18 48 8d 7f 20 73 d4 83 c2 20 eb 44 48 01 d6 48 01 d7 48 83 ea 20 0f 1f 00 48 83 ea 20 <4c> 8b 46 f8 4c 8b 4e f0 4c 8b 56 e8 4c 8b 5e e0 48 8d 76 e0 4c 89
[ 86.684464] RSP: 0018:ffffa79300b2f7e0 EFLAGS: 00010283
[ 86.685060] RAX: ffff9aeb6123a008 RBX: 0000000000000ff8 RCX: 0000000000000000
[ 86.685659] RDX: ffffffffffffffe5 RSI: 0000000000000025 RDI: ffff9aeb6123a02d
[ 86.686265] RBP: ffffa79300b2f810 R08: 0000000000000025 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 86.686843] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000025
[ 86.687366] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff9aeb408d5960 R15: ffffa79300b2f8e4
[ 86.687888] FS: 0000724d07b47740(0000) GS:ffff9aec77c00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 86.688416] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 86.688947] CR2: 000000000000001d CR3: 000000012038a004 CR4: 00000000001706f0
[ 86.689541] Call Trace:
[ 86.690124] <TASK>
[ 86.690704] ? show_regs+0x6d/0x80
[ 86.691256] ? __die+0x24/0x80
[ 86.691807] ? page_fault_oops+0x99/0x1b0
[ 86.692426] ? kernelmode_fixup_or_oops.isra.0+0x69/0x90
[ 86.692991] ? __bad_area_nosemaphore+0x19e/0x2c0
[ 86.693563] ? find_vma+0x34/0x60
[ 86.694214] ? bad_area_nosemaphore+0x16/0x30
[ 86.694835] ? do_user_addr_fault+0x29d/0x670
[ 86.695439] ? exc_page_fault+0x83/0x1b0
[ 86.696024] ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x27/0x30
[ 86.696614] ? memcpy_orig+0x54/0x130
[ 86.697202] ? ceph_pagelist_append+0x124/0x150 [libceph]
[ 86.697995] ceph_security_init_secctx+0xce/0x1f0 [ceph]
[ 86.698733] ceph_new_inode+0x80/0xe0 [ceph]
[ 86.699484] ceph_atomic_open+0x3b2/0x9d0 [ceph]
[ 86.700239] ? may_create+0x141/0x150
[ 86.700903] lookup_open.isra.0+0x3a9/0x570
[ 86.701534] open_last_lookups+0x14f/0x400
[ 86.702196] path_openat+0x99/0x2d0
[ 86.702815] do_filp_open+0xaf/0x170
[ 86.703475] do_sys_openat2+0xb3/0xe0
[ 86.704098] __x64_sys_openat+0x55/0xa0
[ 86.704804] x64_sys_call+0x1eb1/0x25a0
[ 86.705437] do_syscall_64+0x7f/0x180
[ 86.706120] ? filemap_map_pages+0x2fe/0x4c0
[ 86.706792] ? __lruvec_stat_mod_folio+0x70/0xc0
[ 86.707444] ? do_read_fault+0x112/0x200
[ 86.708157] ? do_fault+0xf0/0x260
[ 86.708850] ? handle_pte_fault+0x114/0x1d0
[ 86.709519] ? __handle_mm_fault+0x654/0x800
[ 86.710216] ? __count_memcg_events+0x6b/0x120
[ 86.710884] ? count_memcg_events.constprop.0+0x2a/0x50
[ 86.711505] ? handle_mm_fault+0xad/0x380
[ 86.712136] ? do_user_addr_fault+0x334/0x670
[ 86.712778] ? irqentry_exit_to_user_mode+0x7b/0x260
[ 86.713433] ? irqentry_exit+0x43/0x50
[ 86.714111] ? clear_bhb_loop+0x15/0x70
[ 86.714777] ? clear_bhb_loop+0x15/0x70
[ 86.715330] ? clear_bhb_loop+0x15/0x70
[ 86.715844] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x78/0x80
[ 86.716378] RIP: 0033:0x724d0791b175
[ 86.716895] Code: 83 e2 40 75 50 89 f0 f7 d0 a9 00 00 41 00 74 45 80 3d de fe 0e 00 00 74 60 89 da 4c 89 e6 bf 9c ff ff ff b8 01 01 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 0f 87 7f 00 00 00 48 8b 55 b8 64 48 2b 14 25 28
[ 86.718058] RSP: 002b:00007ffd9c151d40 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000101
[ 86.718648] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000941 RCX: 0000724d0791b175
[ 86.719225] RDX: 0000000000000941 RSI: 00007ffd9c153635 RDI: 00000000ffffff9c
[ 86.719833] RBP: 00007ffd9c151db0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 86.720414] R10: 00000000000001b6 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 00007ffd9c153635
[ 86.720982] R13: 0000724d07a03248 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000001
[ 86.721596] </TASK>
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
Package: linux-image-6.8.0-62-generic 6.8.0-62.65
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.8.0-62.65-generic 6.8.12
Uname: Linux 6.8.0-62-generic x86_64
AlsaDevices:
total 0
crw-rw----. 1 root audio 116, 1 Jun 26 19:53 seq
crw-rw----. 1 root audio 116, 33 Jun 26 19:53 timer
AplayDevices: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'aplay'
ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu3.7
Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'arecord'
AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/snd/seq', '/dev/snd/timer'] failed with exit code 1:
CRDA: N/A
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CloudArchitecture: x86_64
CloudID: none
CloudName: none
CloudPlatform: none
CloudSubPlatform: config
Date: Thu Jun 26 20:01:43 2025
InstallationDate: Installed on 2024-03-19 (464 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 22.04.4 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20240216.1)
IwConfig: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'iwconfig'
Lsusb: Error: command ['lsusb'] failed with exit code 1:
Lsusb-t:
Lsusb-v: Error: command ['lsusb', '-v'] failed with exit code 1:
MachineType: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform
PciMultimedia:
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
PATH=(custom, no user)
SHELL=/bin/bash
TERM=xterm-256color
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
ProcFB: 0 vmwgfxdrmfb
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-6.8.0-62-generic root=/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv ro ipv6.disable=1 ipv6.disable=1 audit=1 audit_backlog_limit=8192 panic=10 security=selinux selinux=1 apparmor=0
RelatedPackageVersions:
linux-restricted-modules-6.8.0-62-generic N/A
linux-backports-modules-6.8.0-62-generic N/A
linux-firmware 20240318.git3b128b60-0ubuntu2.13
RfKill: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'rfkill'
SourcePackage: linux
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to noble on 2025-06-26 (0 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 11/12/2020
dmi.bios.release: 4.6
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD
dmi.bios.version: 6.00
dmi.board.name: 440BX Desktop Reference Platform
dmi.board.vendor: Intel Corporation
dmi.board.version: None
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 1
dmi.chassis.vendor: No Enclosure
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.ec.firmware.release: 0.0
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologiesLTD:bvr6.00:bd11/12/2020:br4.6:efr0.0:svnVMware,Inc.:pnVMwareVirtualPlatform:pvrNone:rvnIntelCorporation:rn440BXDesktopReferencePlatform:rvrNone:cvnNoEnclosure:ct1:cvrN/A:sku:
dmi.product.name: VMware Virtual Platform
dmi.product.version: None
dmi.sys.vendor: VMware, Inc.
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