tracing: Fix race in perf_trace_buf initialization
authorPrateek Sood <prsood@codeaurora.org>
Tue, 15 Oct 2019 06:17:25 +0000 (11:47 +0530)
committerSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Mon, 21 Oct 2019 23:38:28 +0000 (19:38 -0400)
commit6b1340cc00edeadd52ebd8a45171f38c8de2a387
tree532125ffb3c867db0d841b69b4e6911db3765166
parent9fa8c9c647be624e91b09ecffa7cd97ee0600b40
tracing: Fix race in perf_trace_buf initialization

A race condition exists while initialiazing perf_trace_buf from
perf_trace_init() and perf_kprobe_init().

      CPU0                                        CPU1
perf_trace_init()
  mutex_lock(&event_mutex)
    perf_trace_event_init()
      perf_trace_event_reg()
        total_ref_count == 0
buf = alloc_percpu()
        perf_trace_buf[i] = buf
        tp_event->class->reg() //fails       perf_kprobe_init()
goto fail                              perf_trace_event_init()
                                                 perf_trace_event_reg()
        fail:
  total_ref_count == 0

                                                   total_ref_count == 0
                                                   buf = alloc_percpu()
                                                   perf_trace_buf[i] = buf
                                                   tp_event->class->reg()
                                                   total_ref_count++

          free_percpu(perf_trace_buf[i])
          perf_trace_buf[i] = NULL

Any subsequent call to perf_trace_event_reg() will observe total_ref_count > 0,
causing the perf_trace_buf to be always NULL. This can result in perf_trace_buf
getting accessed from perf_trace_buf_alloc() without being initialized. Acquiring
event_mutex in perf_kprobe_init() before calling perf_trace_event_init() should
fix this race.

The race caused the following bug:

 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000003106f2003c
 Mem abort info:
   ESR = 0x96000045
   Exception class = DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
   SET = 0, FnV = 0
   EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
 Data abort info:
   ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000045
   CM = 0, WnR = 1
 user pgtable: 4k pages, 39-bit VAs, pgdp = ffffffc034b9b000
 [0000003106f2003c] pgd=0000000000000000, pud=0000000000000000
 Internal error: Oops: 96000045 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
 Process syz-executor (pid: 18393, stack limit = 0xffffffc093190000)
 pstate: 80400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO)
 pc : __memset+0x20/0x1ac
 lr : memset+0x3c/0x50
 sp : ffffffc09319fc50

  __memset+0x20/0x1ac
  perf_trace_buf_alloc+0x140/0x1a0
  perf_trace_sys_enter+0x158/0x310
  syscall_trace_enter+0x348/0x7c0
  el0_svc_common+0x11c/0x368
  el0_svc_handler+0x12c/0x198
  el0_svc+0x8/0xc

Ramdumps showed the following:
  total_ref_count = 3
  perf_trace_buf = (
      0x0 -> NULL,
      0x0 -> NULL,
      0x0 -> NULL,
      0x0 -> NULL)

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1571120245-4186-1-git-send-email-prsood@codeaurora.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: e12f03d7031a9 ("perf/core: Implement the 'perf_kprobe' PMU")
Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Prateek Sood <prsood@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c