4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Petr Pavlu petr.pavlu@suse.com
commit c0591b1cccf708a47bc465c62436d669a4213323 upstream.
Function trace_buffered_event_disable() is responsible for freeing pages backing buffered events and this process can run concurrently with trace_event_buffer_lock_reserve().
The following race is currently possible:
* Function trace_buffered_event_disable() is called on CPU 0. It increments trace_buffered_event_cnt on each CPU and waits via synchronize_rcu() for each user of trace_buffered_event to complete.
* After synchronize_rcu() is finished, function trace_buffered_event_disable() has the exclusive access to trace_buffered_event. All counters trace_buffered_event_cnt are at 1 and all pointers trace_buffered_event are still valid.
* At this point, on a different CPU 1, the execution reaches trace_event_buffer_lock_reserve(). The function calls preempt_disable_notrace() and only now enters an RCU read-side critical section. The function proceeds and reads a still valid pointer from trace_buffered_event[CPU1] into the local variable "entry". However, it doesn't yet read trace_buffered_event_cnt[CPU1] which happens later.
* Function trace_buffered_event_disable() continues. It frees trace_buffered_event[CPU1] and decrements trace_buffered_event_cnt[CPU1] back to 0.
* Function trace_event_buffer_lock_reserve() continues. It reads and increments trace_buffered_event_cnt[CPU1] from 0 to 1. This makes it believe that it can use the "entry" that it already obtained but the pointer is now invalid and any access results in a use-after-free.
Fix the problem by making a second synchronize_rcu() call after all trace_buffered_event values are set to NULL. This waits on all potential users in trace_event_buffer_lock_reserve() that still read a previous pointer from trace_buffered_event.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231127151248.7232-2-petr.pavlu@suse.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231205161736.19663-4-petr.pavlu@suse.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 0fc1b09ff1ff ("tracing: Use temp buffer when filtering events") Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu petr.pavlu@suse.com Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) rostedt@goodmis.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- kernel/trace/trace.c | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -2265,13 +2265,17 @@ void trace_buffered_event_disable(void) free_page((unsigned long)per_cpu(trace_buffered_event, cpu)); per_cpu(trace_buffered_event, cpu) = NULL; } + /* - * Make sure trace_buffered_event is NULL before clearing - * trace_buffered_event_cnt. + * Wait for all CPUs that potentially started checking if they can use + * their event buffer only after the previous synchronize_rcu() call and + * they still read a valid pointer from trace_buffered_event. It must be + * ensured they don't see cleared trace_buffered_event_cnt else they + * could wrongly decide to use the pointed-to buffer which is now freed. */ - smp_wmb(); + synchronize_rcu();
- /* Do the work on each cpu */ + /* For each CPU, relinquish the buffer */ on_each_cpu_mask(tracing_buffer_mask, enable_trace_buffered_event, NULL, true); }