powerpc/watchpoints: Track perf single step directly on the breakpoint
There is a bug in the current watchpoint tracking logic, where the teardown in arch_unregister_hw_breakpoint() uses bp->ctx->task, which it does not have a reference of and parallel threads may be in the process of destroying. This was partially addressed in commit fb822e60 ("powerpc/hw_breakpoint: Fix oops when destroying hw_breakpoint event"), but the underlying issue of accessing a struct member in an unknown state still remained. Syzkaller managed to trigger a null pointer derefernce due to the race between the task destructor and checking the pointer and dereferencing it in the loop. While this null pointer dereference could be fixed by using READ_ONCE to access the task up front, that just changes the error to manipulating possbily freed memory. Instead, the breakpoint logic needs to be reworked to remove any dependency on a context or task struct during breakpoint removal. The reason we have this currently is to clear thread.last_hit_ubp. This member is used to differentiate the perf DAWR single-step sequence from other causes of single-step, such as userspace just calling ptrace(PTRACE_SINGLESTEP, ...). We need to differentiate them because, when the single step interrupt is received, we need to know whether to re-insert the DAWR breakpoint (perf) or not (ptrace / other). arch_unregister_hw_breakpoint() needs to clear this information to prevent dangling pointers to possibly freed memory. These pointers are dereferenced in single_step_dabr_instruction() without a way to check their validity. This patch moves the tracking of this information to the breakpoint itself. This means we no longer have to do anything special to clean up. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gray <bgray@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://msgid.link/20230801011744.153973-4-bgray@linux.ibm.com
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