Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Alexander Shishkin <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] perf: Paper over the hw.target problems | Date | Fri, 08 Mar 2019 14:38:51 +0200 |
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Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com> writes:
> From: Cheng Jian <cj.chengjian@huawei.com> > > Hi Alexander,
Hi Cheng Jian,
> I have tested this patch and merged into 4.19 stable branch, > syzkaller reported some new issues(WANRING), the C program > generated by syzkaller can inevitably reproduce the issue > (only in patched kernel). > > I put the syzkaller log and the manual test log in the attachment.
Thanks a lot for taking the time and providing all the details. Please find an updated version below, which should not exhibit that warning.
From 1576f66b4311fe81107c3c39c38060178bc89457 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 15:24:04 +0200 Subject: [RFC PATCH v1] perf: Paper over the hw.target problems
First, we have a race between perf_event_release_kernel() and perf_free_event(), which happens when parent's event is released while the child's fork fails (because of a fatal signal, for example), that looks like this:
cpu X cpu Y ----- ----- copy_process() error path perf_release(parent) +->perf_event_free_task() +-> lock(child_ctx->mutex) | | +-> remove_from_context(child) | | +-> unlock(child_ctx->mutex) | | | | +-> lock(child_ctx->mutex) | | +-> unlock(child_ctx->mutex) | +-> free_task(child_task) +-> put_task_struct(child_task)
Technically, we're still holding a reference to the task via parent->hw.target, that's not stopping free_task(), so we end up poking at free'd memory, as is pointed out by KASAN in the syzkaller report (see Link below). The straightforward fix is to drop the hw.target reference while the task is still around.
Therein lies the second problem: the users of hw.target (uprobe) assume that it's around at ->destroy() callback time, where they use it for context. So, in order to not break the uprobe teardown and avoid leaking stuff, we need to call ->destroy() at the same time.
This patch fixes the race and the subsequent fallout by doing both these things at remove_from_context time.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=a24c397a29ad22d86c98 --- kernel/events/core.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index 6797f0db0299..83469aae2774 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -2106,6 +2106,28 @@ static void perf_remove_from_context(struct perf_event *event, unsigned long fla event_function_call(event, __perf_remove_from_context, (void *)flags); + /* + * This is as passable as any hw.target handling out there; + * hw.target implies task context, therefore, no migration. + * Which together with DETACH_GROUP means that this is the + * final remove_from_context of a task event. + */ + if (event->hw.target && (flags & DETACH_GROUP)) { + /* + * Now, the problem with, say uprobes, is that they + * use hw.target for context in their ->destroy() + * callbacks. Supposedly, they may need to poke at + * its contents, so better call it while we still + * have the task. + */ + if (event->destroy) { + event->destroy(event); + event->destroy = NULL; + } + put_task_struct(event->hw.target); + event->hw.target = NULL; + } + /* * The above event_function_call() can NO-OP when it hits * TASK_TOMBSTONE. In that case we must already have been detached -- 2.20.1
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