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
same thing with ETF and cache the PID to which the cs_buffer
belongs in tmc_alloc_etf_buffer() as done for ETR. This will
also remove the unnecessary function calls(task_pid_nr()) since
we are caching the PID. In addition to this, add a check to
validate event->owner which will prevent any possible NULL
pointer dereferences and check for kernel events.
Easily reproducible running below:
perf record -e cs_etm/@tmc_etf0/ -N -p <pid>
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000548
Mem abort info:
ESR = 0x96000006
EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
SET = 0, FnV = 0
EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
Data abort info:
ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000006
CM = 0, WnR = 0
<snip>...
Call trace:
tmc_enable_etf_sink+0xe4/0x280
coresight_enable_path+0x168/0x1fc
etm_event_start+0x8c/0xf8
etm_event_add+0x38/0x54
event_sched_in+0x194/0x2ac
group_sched_in+0x54/0x12c
flexible_sched_in+0xd8/0x120
visit_groups_merge+0x100/0x16c
ctx_flexible_sched_in+0x50/0x74
ctx_sched_in+0xa4/0xa8
perf_event_sched_in+0x60/0x6c
perf_event_context_sched_in+0x98/0xe0
__perf_event_task_sched_in+0x5c/0xd8
finish_task_switch+0x184/0x1cc
schedule_tail+0x20/0xec
ret_from_fork+0x4/0x18
Fixes: 880af782c6e8 ("coresight: tmc-etf: Add support for CPU-wide trace scenarios")
Suggested-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sai Prakash Ranjan <saiprakash.ranjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-priv.h | 2 ++
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-etf.c | 8 +++++++-
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-priv.h b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-priv.h
index 65a29293b6cb..f5f654ea2994 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-priv.h
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-priv.h
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ enum cs_mode {
* struct cs_buffer - keep track of a recording session' specifics
* @cur: index of the current buffer
* @nr_pages: max number of pages granted to us
+ * @pid: PID this cs_buffer belongs to
* @offset: offset within the current buffer
* @data_size: how much we collected in this run
* @snapshot: is this run in snapshot mode
@@ -95,6 +96,7 @@ enum cs_mode {
struct cs_buffers {
unsigned int cur;
unsigned int nr_pages;
+ pid_t pid;
unsigned long offset;
local_t data_size;
bool snapshot;
diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-etf.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-etf.c
index 44402d413ebb..86ff0dda0444 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-etf.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-etf.c
@@ -227,6 +227,7 @@ static int tmc_enable_etf_sink_perf(struct coresight_device *csdev, void *data)
unsigned long flags;
struct tmc_drvdata *drvdata = dev_get_drvdata(csdev->dev.parent);
struct perf_output_handle *handle = data;
+ struct cs_buffers *buf = etm_perf_sink_config(handle);
spin_lock_irqsave(&drvdata->spinlock, flags);
do {
@@ -243,7 +244,7 @@ static int tmc_enable_etf_sink_perf(struct coresight_device *csdev, void *data)
}
/* Get a handle on the pid of the process to monitor */
- pid = task_pid_nr(handle->event->owner);
+ pid = buf->pid;
if (drvdata->pid != -1 && drvdata->pid != pid) {
ret = -EBUSY;
@@ -391,6 +392,10 @@ static void *tmc_alloc_etf_buffer(struct coresight_device *csdev,
{
int node;
struct cs_buffers *buf;
+ struct task_struct *task = READ_ONCE(event->owner);
+
+ if (!task || is_kernel_event(event))
+ return NULL;
node = (event->cpu == -1) ? NUMA_NO_NODE : cpu_to_node(event->cpu);
@@ -399,6 +404,7 @@ static void *tmc_alloc_etf_buffer(struct coresight_device *csdev,
if (!buf)
return NULL;
+ buf->pid = task_pid_nr(task);
buf->snapshot = overwrite;
buf->nr_pages = nr_pages;
buf->data_pages = pages;
--
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