Re: [PATCH] trace: fix race in perf_trace_buf initialization

[Prateek Sood <prsood@codeaurora.org>]

On 10/19/19 2:42 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> Peter told me it was fine, but I'm also adding Song who is the author
> of the code.
> 
> Also needs the tags (which I'll add)
> 
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: e12f03d7031a9 ("perf/core: Implement the 'perf_kprobe' PMU")
> 
> -- Steve
> 
> 
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 11:47:25 +0530
> Prateek Sood <prsood@codeaurora.org> wrote:
> 
>> [  943.034988] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000003106f2003c
>> [  943.043653] Mem abort info:
>> [  943.046679]   ESR = 0x96000045
>> [  943.050428]   Exception class = DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
>> [  943.056643]   SET = 0, FnV = 0
>> [  943.060168]   EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
>> [  943.063449] Data abort info:
>> [  943.066474]   ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000045
>> [  943.070856]   CM = 0, WnR = 1
>> [  943.074016] user pgtable: 4k pages, 39-bit VAs, pgdp = ffffffc034b9b000
>> [  943.081446] [0000003106f2003c] pgd=0000000000000000, pud=0000000000000000
>> [  943.088862] Internal error: Oops: 96000045 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
>> [  943.141700] Process syz-executor (pid: 18393, stack limit = 0xffffffc093190000)
>> [  943.164146] pstate: 80400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO)
>> [  943.169119] pc : __memset+0x20/0x1ac
>> [  943.172831] lr : memset+0x3c/0x50
>> [  943.176269] sp : ffffffc09319fc50
>>
>> [  943.557593]  __memset+0x20/0x1ac
>> [  943.560953]  perf_trace_buf_alloc+0x140/0x1a0
>> [  943.565472]  perf_trace_sys_enter+0x158/0x310
>> [  943.569985]  syscall_trace_enter+0x348/0x7c0
>> [  943.574413]  el0_svc_common+0x11c/0x368
>> [  943.578394]  el0_svc_handler+0x12c/0x198
>> [  943.582459]  el0_svc+0x8/0xc
>>
>> In Ramdumps:
>> total_ref_count = 3
>> perf_trace_buf = (
>>     0x0 -> NULL,
>>     0x0 -> NULL,
>>     0x0 -> NULL,
>>     0x0 -> NULL)
>>
>> event_call in perf_trace_sys_enter()
>> event_call = 0xFFFFFF900CB511D8 -> (
>>     list = (next = 0xFFFFFF900CB4E2E0, prev = 0xFFFFFF900CB512B0),
>>     class = 0xFFFFFF900CDC8308,
>>     name = 0xFFFFFF900CDDA1D8,
>>     tp = 0xFFFFFF900CDDA1D8,
>>     event = (
>>       node = (next = 0x0, pprev = 0xFFFFFF900CB80210),
>>       list = (next = 0xFFFFFF900CB512E0, prev = 0xFFFFFF900CB4E310),
>>       type = 21,
>>       funcs = 0xFFFFFF900CB51130),
>>     print_fmt = 0xFFFFFF900CB51150,
>>     filter = 0x0,
>>     mod = 0x0,
>>     data = 0x0,
>>     flags = 18,
>>     perf_refcount = 1,
>>     perf_events = 0xFFFFFF8DB8E54158,
>>     prog_array = 0x0,
>>     perf_perm = 0x0)
>>
>> perf_events added on CPU0
>> (struct hlist_head *)(0xFFFFFF8DB8E54158+__per_cpu_offset[0]) -> (
>>     first = 0xFFFFFFC0980FD0E0 -> (
>>       next = 0x0,
>>       pprev = 0xFFFFFFBEBFD74158))
>>
>> Could you please confirm:
>> 1) the race mentioned below exists or not.
>> 2) if following patch fixes it.
>>
>>
>>> 8>8>8>8>8>8>8>8>8>8>8>8>8>8>8>8>8>8>8>8>8>8>8>8>8>8>8>8>8>8>8>8>8>8>8>8>8>8  
>>
>> 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 NULL always. 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.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Prateek Sood <prsood@codeaurora.org>
>> ---
>>  kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c | 4 ++++
>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c b/kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c
>> index 4629a61..48ee92c 100644
>> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c
>> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c
>> @@ -272,9 +272,11 @@ int perf_kprobe_init(struct perf_event *p_event, bool is_retprobe)
>>  		goto out;
>>  	}
>>  
>> +	mutex_lock(&event_mutex);
>>  	ret = perf_trace_event_init(tp_event, p_event);
>>  	if (ret)
>>  		destroy_local_trace_kprobe(tp_event);
>> +	mutex_unlock(&event_mutex);
>>  out:
>>  	kfree(func);
>>  	return ret;
>> @@ -282,8 +284,10 @@ int perf_kprobe_init(struct perf_event *p_event, bool is_retprobe)
>>  
>>  void perf_kprobe_destroy(struct perf_event *p_event)
>>  {
>> +	mutex_lock(&event_mutex);
>>  	perf_trace_event_close(p_event);
>>  	perf_trace_event_unreg(p_event);
>> +	mutex_unlock(&event_mutex);
>>  
>>  	destroy_local_trace_kprobe(p_event->tp_event);
>>  }
> 

Hi Song,

Could you please help in this query.


Thanks
Prateek

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