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Commit 1cf8dfe8 authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Ingo Molnar
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perf/core: Fix race between close() and fork()



Syzcaller reported the following Use-after-Free bug:

	close()						clone()

							  copy_process()
							    perf_event_init_task()
							      perf_event_init_context()
							        mutex_lock(parent_ctx->mutex)
								inherit_task_group()
								  inherit_group()
								    inherit_event()
								      mutex_lock(event->child_mutex)
								      // expose event on child list
								      list_add_tail()
								      mutex_unlock(event->child_mutex)
							        mutex_unlock(parent_ctx->mutex)

							    ...
							    goto bad_fork_*

							  bad_fork_cleanup_perf:
							    perf_event_free_task()

	  perf_release()
	    perf_event_release_kernel()
	      list_for_each_entry()
		mutex_lock(ctx->mutex)
		mutex_lock(event->child_mutex)
		// event is from the failing inherit
		// on the other CPU
		perf_remove_from_context()
		list_move()
		mutex_unlock(event->child_mutex)
		mutex_unlock(ctx->mutex)

							      mutex_lock(ctx->mutex)
							      list_for_each_entry_safe()
							        // event already stolen
							      mutex_unlock(ctx->mutex)

							    delayed_free_task()
							      free_task()

	     list_for_each_entry_safe()
	       list_del()
	       free_event()
	         _free_event()
		   // and so event->hw.target
		   // is the already freed failed clone()
		   if (event->hw.target)
		     put_task_struct(event->hw.target)
		       // WHOOPSIE, already quite dead

Which puts the lie to the the comment on perf_event_free_task():
'unexposed, unused context' not so much.

Which is a 'fun' confluence of fail; copy_process() doing an
unconditional free_task() and not respecting refcounts, and perf having
creative locking. In particular:

  82d94856 ("perf/core: Fix lock inversion between perf,trace,cpuhp")

seems to have overlooked this 'fun' parade.

Solve it by using the fact that detached events still have a reference
count on their (previous) context. With this perf_event_free_task()
can detect when events have escaped and wait for their destruction.

Debugged-by: default avatarAlexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: default avatar <syzbot+a24c397a29ad22d86c98@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: default avatarMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Fixes: 82d94856 ("perf/core: Fix lock inversion between perf,trace,cpuhp")
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent e5eb08ac
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