From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.3 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1903C433E7 for ; Tue, 13 Oct 2020 16:35:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5013C252A7 for ; Tue, 13 Oct 2020 16:35:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726120AbgJMQfQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Oct 2020 12:35:16 -0400 Received: from foss.arm.com ([217.140.110.172]:34138 "EHLO foss.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727320AbgJMQfQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Oct 2020 12:35:16 -0400 Received: from usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (unknown [10.121.207.14]) by usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D92E931B; Tue, 13 Oct 2020 09:35:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.57.50.28] (unknown [10.57.50.28]) by usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7B9FA3F66B; Tue, 13 Oct 2020 09:35:13 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] coresight: tmc-etf: Fix NULL ptr dereference in tmc_enable_etf_sink_perf() To: saiprakash.ranjan@codeaurora.org, mathieu.poirier@linaro.org, mike.leach@linaro.org Cc: coresight@lists.linaro.org, swboyd@chromium.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, denik@google.com, leo.yan@linaro.org, peterz@infradead.org References: From: Suzuki K Poulose Message-ID: <5bbb2d35-3e56-56d7-4722-bf34c5efa2fb@arm.com> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 17:35:11 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org On 10/07/2020 02:00 PM, Sai Prakash Ranjan wrote: > There was a report of NULL pointer dereference in ETF enable > path for perf CS mode with PID monitoring. It is almost 100% > reproducible when the process to monitor is something very > active such as chrome and with ETF as the sink and not ETR. > Currently in a bid to find the pid, the owner is dereferenced > via task_pid_nr() call in tmc_enable_etf_sink_perf() and with > owner being NULL, we get a NULL pointer dereference. > > Looking at the ETR and other places in the kernel, ETF and the > ETB are the only places trying to dereference the task(owner) > in tmc_enable_etf_sink_perf() which is also called from the > sched_in path as in the call trace. Owner(task) is NULL even > in the case of ETR in tmc_enable_etr_sink_perf(), but since we > cache the PID in alloc_buffer() callback and it is done as part > of etm_setup_aux() when allocating buffer for ETR sink, we never > dereference this NULL pointer and we are safe. So lets do the The patch is necessary to fix some of the issues. But I feel it is not complete. Why is it safe earlier and not later ? I believe we are simply reducing the chances of hitting the issue, by doing this earlier than later. I would say we better fix all instances to make sure that the event->owner is valid. (e.g, I can see that the for kernel events event->owner == -1 ?) struct task_struct *tsk = READ_ONCE(event->owner); if (!tsk || is_kernel_event(event)) /* skip ? */ Suzuki