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Marco Elver 4674ffe2fc perf, hw_breakpoint: Fix use-after-free if perf_event_open() fails
Local testing revealed that we can trigger a use-after-free during
rhashtable lookup as follows:

 | BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in memcmp lib/string.c:757
 | Read of size 8 at addr ffff888107544dc0 by task perf-rhltable-n/1293
 |
 | CPU: 0 PID: 1293 Comm: perf-rhltable-n Not tainted 6.0.0-rc3-00014-g85260862789c #46
 | Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.0-debian-1.16.0-4 04/01/2014
 | Call Trace:
 |  <TASK>
 |  memcmp			lib/string.c:757
 |  rhashtable_compare		include/linux/rhashtable.h:577 [inline]
 |  __rhashtable_lookup		include/linux/rhashtable.h:602 [inline]
 |  rhltable_lookup		include/linux/rhashtable.h:688 [inline]
 |  task_bp_pinned		kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c:324
 |  toggle_bp_slot		kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c:462
 |  __release_bp_slot		kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c:631 [inline]
 |  release_bp_slot		kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c:639
 |  register_perf_hw_breakpoint	kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c:742
 |  hw_breakpoint_event_init	kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c:976
 |  perf_try_init_event		kernel/events/core.c:11261
 |  perf_init_event		kernel/events/core.c:11325 [inline]
 |  perf_event_alloc		kernel/events/core.c:11619
 |  __do_sys_perf_event_open	kernel/events/core.c:12157
 |  do_syscall_x64 		arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 |  do_syscall_64		arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 |  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe
 |  </TASK>
 |
 | Allocated by task 1292:
 |  perf_event_alloc		kernel/events/core.c:11505
 |  __do_sys_perf_event_open	kernel/events/core.c:12157
 |  do_syscall_x64		arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 |  do_syscall_64		arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 |  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe
 |
 | Freed by task 1292:
 |  perf_event_alloc		kernel/events/core.c:11716
 |  __do_sys_perf_event_open	kernel/events/core.c:12157
 |  do_syscall_x64		arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 |  do_syscall_64		arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 |  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe
 |
 | The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888107544c00
 |  which belongs to the cache perf_event of size 1352
 | The buggy address is located 448 bytes inside of
 |  1352-byte region [ffff888107544c00, ffff888107545148)

This happens because the first perf_event_open() managed to reserve a HW
breakpoint slot, however, later fails for other reasons and returns. The
second perf_event_open() runs concurrently, and during rhltable_lookup()
looks up an entry which is being freed: since rhltable_lookup() may run
concurrently (under the RCU read lock) with rhltable_remove(), we may
end up with a stale entry, for which memory may also have already been
freed when being accessed.

To fix, only free the failed perf_event after an RCU grace period. This
allows subsystems that store references to an event to always access it
concurrently under the RCU read lock, even if initialization will fail.

Given failure is unlikely and a slow-path, turning the immediate free
into a call_rcu()-wrapped free does not affect performance elsewhere.

Fixes: 0370dc314d ("perf/hw_breakpoint: Optimize list of per-task breakpoints")
Reported-by: syzkaller <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220927172025.1636995-1-elver@google.com
2022-09-27 22:50:24 +02:00
arch perf: Use sample_flags for raw_data 2022-09-27 22:50:24 +02:00
block block-6.0-2022-08-19 2022-08-20 10:17:05 -07:00
certs Kbuild updates for v5.20 2022-08-10 10:40:41 -07:00
crypto crypto: blake2b: effectively disable frame size warning 2022-08-10 17:59:11 -07:00
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drivers arm64/perf: Assert all platform event flags are within PERF_EVENT_FLAG_ARCH 2022-09-07 21:54:01 +02:00
fs 5 cifs/smb3 fixes, one for stable 2022-08-21 10:21:16 -07:00
include perf: Use sample_flags for raw_data 2022-09-27 22:50:24 +02:00
init asm goto: eradicate CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO 2022-08-21 10:06:28 -07:00
io_uring io_uring/net: use right helpers for async_data 2022-08-18 07:27:20 -06:00
ipc Updates to various subsystems which I help look after. lib, ocfs2, 2022-08-07 10:03:24 -07:00
kernel perf, hw_breakpoint: Fix use-after-free if perf_event_open() fails 2022-09-27 22:50:24 +02:00
lib perf/hw_breakpoint: Add KUnit test for constraints accounting 2022-08-30 10:56:20 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm - hugetlb_vmemmap cleanups from Muchun Song 2022-08-10 11:18:00 -07:00
net tcp: handle pure FIN case correctly 2022-08-18 11:04:56 -07:00
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security hardening fixes for v6.0-rc2 2022-08-19 13:56:14 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 6.0-rc2 2022-08-19 09:46:11 -07:00
tools asm goto: eradicate CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO 2022-08-21 10:06:28 -07:00
usr Not a lot of material this cycle. Many singleton patches against various 2022-05-27 11:22:03 -07:00
virt KVM: Drop unnecessary initialization of "ops" in kvm_ioctl_create_device() 2022-08-19 04:05:43 -04:00
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COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS drm for 5.20/6.0 2022-08-03 19:52:08 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
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MAINTAINERS 5 cifs/smb3 fixes, one for stable 2022-08-21 10:21:16 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.0-rc2 2022-08-21 17:32:54 -07:00
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