This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
perf/core: Fix use-after-free in perf_release()
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
perf-core-fix-use-after-free-in-perf_release.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From e552a8389aa409e257b7dcba74f67f128f979ccc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 13:47:48 +0100
Subject: perf/core: Fix use-after-free in perf_release()
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit e552a8389aa409e257b7dcba74f67f128f979ccc upstream.
Dmitry reported syzcaller tripped a use-after-free in perf_release().
After much puzzlement Oleg spotted the below scenario:
Task1 Task2
fork()
perf_event_init_task()
/* ... */
goto bad_fork_$foo;
/* ... */
perf_event_free_task()
mutex_lock(ctx->lock)
perf_free_event(B)
perf_event_release_kernel(A)
mutex_lock(A->child_mutex)
list_for_each_entry(child, ...) {
/* child == B */
ctx = B->ctx;
get_ctx(ctx);
mutex_unlock(A->child_mutex);
mutex_lock(A->child_mutex)
list_del_init(B->child_list)
mutex_unlock(A->child_mutex)
/* ... */
mutex_unlock(ctx->lock);
put_ctx() /* >0 */
free_task();
mutex_lock(ctx->lock);
mutex_lock(A->child_mutex);
/* ... */
mutex_unlock(A->child_mutex);
mutex_unlock(ctx->lock)
put_ctx() /* 0 */
ctx->task && !TOMBSTONE
put_task_struct() /* UAF */
This patch closes the hole by making perf_event_free_task() destroy the
task <-> ctx relation such that perf_event_release_kernel() will no longer
observe the now dead task.
Spotted-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: oleg@xxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: c6e5b73242d2 ("perf: Synchronously clean up child events")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170314155949.GE32474@worktop
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170316125823.140295131@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/events/core.c | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -10333,6 +10333,17 @@ void perf_event_free_task(struct task_st
continue;
mutex_lock(&ctx->mutex);
+ raw_spin_lock_irq(&ctx->lock);
+ /*
+ * Destroy the task <-> ctx relation and mark the context dead.
+ *
+ * This is important because even though the task hasn't been
+ * exposed yet the context has been (through child_list).
+ */
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER(task->perf_event_ctxp[ctxn], NULL);
+ WRITE_ONCE(ctx->task, TASK_TOMBSTONE);
+ put_task_struct(task); /* cannot be last */
+ raw_spin_unlock_irq(&ctx->lock);
again:
list_for_each_entry_safe(event, tmp, &ctx->pinned_groups,
group_entry)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/perf-core-fix-use-after-free-in-perf_release.patch
queue-4.9/perf-core-fix-event-inheritance-on-fork.patch