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Steven Rostedt 4ed03758dd tracing: Have format file honor EVENT_FILE_FL_FREED 
commit b156040869 upstream.

When eventfs was introduced, special care had to be done to coordinate the
freeing of the file meta data with the files that are exposed to user
space. The file meta data would have a ref count that is set when the file
is created and would be decremented and freed after the last user that
opened the file closed it. When the file meta data was to be freed, it
would set a flag (EVENT_FILE_FL_FREED) to denote that the file is freed,
and any new references made (like new opens or reads) would fail as it is
marked freed. This allowed other meta data to be freed after this flag was
set (under the event_mutex).

All the files that were dynamically created in the events directory had a
pointer to the file meta data and would call event_release() when the last
reference to the user space file was closed. This would be the time that it
is safe to free the file meta data.

A shortcut was made for the "format" file. It's i_private would point to
the "call" entry directly and not point to the file's meta data. This is
because all format files are the same for the same "call", so it was
thought there was no reason to differentiate them.  The other files
maintain state (like the "enable", "trigger", etc). But this meant if the
file were to disappear, the "format" file would be unaware of it.

This caused a race that could be trigger via the user_events test (that
would create dynamic events and free them), and running a loop that would
read the user_events format files:

In one console run:

 # cd tools/testing/selftests/user_events
 # while true; do ./ftrace_test; done

And in another console run:

 # cd /sys/kernel/tracing/
 # while true; do cat events/user_events/__test_event/format; done 2>/dev/null

With KASAN memory checking, it would trigger a use-after-free bug report
(which was a real bug). This was because the format file was not checking
the file's meta data flag "EVENT_FILE_FL_FREED", so it would access the
event that the file meta data pointed to after the event was freed.

After inspection, there are other locations that were found to not check
the EVENT_FILE_FL_FREED flag when accessing the trace_event_file. Add a
new helper function: event_file_file() that will make sure that the
event_mutex is held, and will return NULL if the trace_event_file has the
EVENT_FILE_FL_FREED flag set. Have the first reference of the struct file
pointer use event_file_file() and check for NULL. Later uses can still use
the event_file_data() helper function if the event_mutex is still held and
was not released since the event_file_file() call.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240719204701.1605950-1-minipli@grsecurity.net/

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers   <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Ajay Kaher <ajay.kaher@broadcom.com>
Cc: Ilkka Naulapää    <digirigawa@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al   Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Dan Carpenter   <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Cc: Beau Belgrave <beaub@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Florian Fainelli  <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>
Cc: Alexey Makhalov    <alexey.makhalov@broadcom.com>
Cc: Vasavi Sirnapalli    <vasavi.sirnapalli@broadcom.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20240730110657.3b69d3c1@gandalf.local.home
Fixes: b63db58e2f ("eventfs/tracing: Add callback for release of an eventfs_inode")
Reported-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@grsecurity.net>
Tested-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@grsecurity.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
[Resolve conflict due to lack of commit a1f157c7a3 ("tracing: Expand all
 ring buffers individually") which add tracing_update_buffers() in
event_enable_write(), that commit is more of a feature than a bugfix
and is not related to the problem fixed by this patch]
Signed-off-by: Zheng Yejian <zhengyejian@huaweicloud.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2024-09-04 13:28:22 +02:00
arch LoongArch: Remove the unused dma-direct.h 2024-09-04 13:28:18 +02:00
block block: Fix lockdep warning in blk_mq_mark_tag_wait 2024-08-29 17:33:30 +02:00
certs certs: Reference revocation list for all keyrings 2023-08-17 20:12:41 +00:00
crypto crypto: aead,cipher - zeroize key buffer after use 2024-07-11 12:49:04 +02:00
Documentation cpu/SMT: Enable SMT only if a core is online 2024-08-29 17:33:30 +02:00
drivers drm/vmwgfx: Fix prime with external buffers 2024-09-04 13:28:22 +02:00
fs smb/client: avoid dereferencing rdata=NULL in smb2_new_read_req() 2024-09-04 13:28:19 +02:00
include of: Add cleanup.h based auto release via __free(device_node) markings 2024-09-04 13:28:19 +02:00
init rust: fix the default format for CONFIG_{RUSTC,BINDGEN}_VERSION_TEXT 2024-08-29 17:33:29 +02:00
io_uring io_uring: fix io_match_task must_hold 2024-08-03 08:54:41 +02:00
ipc sysctl: treewide: drop unused argument ctl_table_root::set_ownership(table) 2024-08-11 12:47:13 +02:00
kernel tracing: Have format file honor EVENT_FILE_FL_FREED 2024-09-04 13:28:22 +02:00
lib sched/topology: Handle NUMA_NO_NODE in sched_numa_find_nth_cpu() 2024-08-29 17:33:24 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm mm/numa: no task_numa_fault() call if PTE is changed 2024-08-29 17:33:58 +02:00
net mptcp: pm: ADD_ADDR 0 is not a new address 2024-09-04 13:28:21 +02:00
rust rust: kernel: require Send for Module implementations 2024-05-17 12:01:56 +02:00
samples bpf: Replace bpf_lpm_trie_key 0-length array with flexible array 2024-08-19 06:04:27 +02:00
scripts rust: work around bindgen 0.69.0 issue 2024-08-29 17:33:29 +02:00
security evm: don't copy up 'security.evm' xattr 2024-08-29 17:33:31 +02:00
sound ALSA: seq: Skip event type filtering for UMP events 2024-09-04 13:28:18 +02:00
tools selftests: mptcp: join: check re-re-adding ID 0 endp 2024-09-04 13:28:21 +02:00
usr initramfs: Encode dependency on KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP 2023-06-06 17:54:49 +09:00
virt KVM: Fix a data race on last_boosted_vcpu in kvm_vcpu_on_spin() 2024-06-27 13:49:11 +02:00
.clang-format iommu: Add for_each_group_device() 2023-05-23 08:15:51 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore kbuild: rpm-pkg: rename binkernel.spec to kernel.spec 2023-07-25 00:59:33 +09:00
.mailmap 20 hotfixes. 12 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.5 issues 2023-10-24 09:52:16 -10:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS USB: Remove Wireless USB and UWB documentation 2023-08-09 14:17:32 +02:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS pwm: Rename pwm_apply_state() to pwm_apply_might_sleep() 2024-06-12 11:12:24 +02:00
Makefile Linux 6.6.48 2024-08-29 17:33:59 +02:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.