From: Mathieu Desnoyers Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 11:47:49 +0000 (-0400) Subject: tracepoint: Fix use of tracepoint funcs after rcu free X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~176^2~3929^2 X-Git-Url: http://plrg.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8058bd0faad860e75547cc5cb5d4ade016247a79;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git tracepoint: Fix use of tracepoint funcs after rcu free Commit de7b2973903c "tracepoint: Use struct pointer instead of name hash for reg/unreg tracepoints" introduces a use after free by calling release_probes on the old struct tracepoint array before the newly allocated array is published with rcu_assign_pointer. There is a race window where tracepoints (RCU readers) can perform a "use-after-grace-period-after-free", which shows up as a GPF in stress-tests. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/53698021.5020108@oracle.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/1399549669-25465-1-git-send-email-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Reported-by: Sasha Levin CC: Oleg Nesterov CC: Dave Jones Fixes: de7b2973903c "tracepoint: Use struct pointer instead of name hash for reg/unreg tracepoints" Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- diff --git a/kernel/tracepoint.c b/kernel/tracepoint.c index ac5b23cf7212..6620e5837ce2 100644 --- a/kernel/tracepoint.c +++ b/kernel/tracepoint.c @@ -188,7 +188,6 @@ static int tracepoint_add_func(struct tracepoint *tp, WARN_ON_ONCE(1); return PTR_ERR(old); } - release_probes(old); /* * rcu_assign_pointer has a smp_wmb() which makes sure that the new @@ -200,6 +199,7 @@ static int tracepoint_add_func(struct tracepoint *tp, rcu_assign_pointer(tp->funcs, tp_funcs); if (!static_key_enabled(&tp->key)) static_key_slow_inc(&tp->key); + release_probes(old); return 0; } @@ -221,7 +221,6 @@ static int tracepoint_remove_func(struct tracepoint *tp, WARN_ON_ONCE(1); return PTR_ERR(old); } - release_probes(old); if (!tp_funcs) { /* Removed last function */ @@ -232,6 +231,7 @@ static int tracepoint_remove_func(struct tracepoint *tp, static_key_slow_dec(&tp->key); } rcu_assign_pointer(tp->funcs, tp_funcs); + release_probes(old); return 0; }