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<title>tracing: Have trace_event_file have ref counters</title>
<updated>2023-11-08T10:56:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-05T15:56:31+00:00</published>
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commit bb32500fb9b78215e4ef6ee8b4345c5f5d7eafb4 upstream

The following can crash the kernel:

 # cd /sys/kernel/tracing
 # echo 'p:sched schedule' &gt; kprobe_events
 # exec 5&gt;&gt;events/kprobes/sched/enable
 # &gt; kprobe_events
 # exec 5&gt;&amp;-

The above commands:

 1. Change directory to the tracefs directory
 2. Create a kprobe event (doesn't matter what one)
 3. Open bash file descriptor 5 on the enable file of the kprobe event
 4. Delete the kprobe event (removes the files too)
 5. Close the bash file descriptor 5

The above causes a crash!

 BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000028
 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
 #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
 PGD 0 P4D 0
 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
 CPU: 6 PID: 877 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.5.0-rc4-test-00008-g2c6b6b1029d4-dirty #186
 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.2-debian-1.16.2-1 04/01/2014
 RIP: 0010:tracing_release_file_tr+0xc/0x50

What happens here is that the kprobe event creates a trace_event_file
"file" descriptor that represents the file in tracefs to the event. It
maintains state of the event (is it enabled for the given instance?).
Opening the "enable" file gets a reference to the event "file" descriptor
via the open file descriptor. When the kprobe event is deleted, the file is
also deleted from the tracefs system which also frees the event "file"
descriptor.

But as the tracefs file is still opened by user space, it will not be
totally removed until the final dput() is called on it. But this is not
true with the event "file" descriptor that is already freed. If the user
does a write to or simply closes the file descriptor it will reference the
event "file" descriptor that was just freed, causing a use-after-free bug.

To solve this, add a ref count to the event "file" descriptor as well as a
new flag called "FREED". The "file" will not be freed until the last
reference is released. But the FREE flag will be set when the event is
removed to prevent any more modifications to that event from happening,
even if there's still a reference to the event "file" descriptor.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231031000031.1e705592@gandalf.local.home/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231031122453.7a48b923@gandalf.local.home

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Fixes: f5ca233e2e66d ("tracing: Increase trace array ref count on enable and filter files")
Reported-by: Beau Belgrave &lt;beaub@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Tested-by: Beau Belgrave &lt;beaub@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit bb32500fb9b78215e4ef6ee8b4345c5f5d7eafb4 upstream

The following can crash the kernel:

 # cd /sys/kernel/tracing
 # echo 'p:sched schedule' &gt; kprobe_events
 # exec 5&gt;&gt;events/kprobes/sched/enable
 # &gt; kprobe_events
 # exec 5&gt;&amp;-

The above commands:

 1. Change directory to the tracefs directory
 2. Create a kprobe event (doesn't matter what one)
 3. Open bash file descriptor 5 on the enable file of the kprobe event
 4. Delete the kprobe event (removes the files too)
 5. Close the bash file descriptor 5

The above causes a crash!

 BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000028
 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
 #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
 PGD 0 P4D 0
 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
 CPU: 6 PID: 877 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.5.0-rc4-test-00008-g2c6b6b1029d4-dirty #186
 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.2-debian-1.16.2-1 04/01/2014
 RIP: 0010:tracing_release_file_tr+0xc/0x50

What happens here is that the kprobe event creates a trace_event_file
"file" descriptor that represents the file in tracefs to the event. It
maintains state of the event (is it enabled for the given instance?).
Opening the "enable" file gets a reference to the event "file" descriptor
via the open file descriptor. When the kprobe event is deleted, the file is
also deleted from the tracefs system which also frees the event "file"
descriptor.

But as the tracefs file is still opened by user space, it will not be
totally removed until the final dput() is called on it. But this is not
true with the event "file" descriptor that is already freed. If the user
does a write to or simply closes the file descriptor it will reference the
event "file" descriptor that was just freed, causing a use-after-free bug.

To solve this, add a ref count to the event "file" descriptor as well as a
new flag called "FREED". The "file" will not be freed until the last
reference is released. But the FREE flag will be set when the event is
removed to prevent any more modifications to that event from happening,
even if there's still a reference to the event "file" descriptor.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231031000031.1e705592@gandalf.local.home/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231031122453.7a48b923@gandalf.local.home

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Fixes: f5ca233e2e66d ("tracing: Increase trace array ref count on enable and filter files")
Reported-by: Beau Belgrave &lt;beaub@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Tested-by: Beau Belgrave &lt;beaub@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'perf-urgent-2023-10-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2023-10-28T18:10:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-28T18:10:47+00:00</published>
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Pull perf event fix from Ingo Molnar:
 "Fix a potential NULL dereference bug"

* tag 'perf-urgent-2023-10-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf/core: Fix potential NULL deref
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Pull perf event fix from Ingo Molnar:
 "Fix a potential NULL dereference bug"

* tag 'perf-urgent-2023-10-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf/core: Fix potential NULL deref
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'probes-fixes-v6.6-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2023-10-28T18:04:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-28T18:04:56+00:00</published>
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Pull probes fixes from Masami Hiramatsu:

 - tracing/kprobes: Fix kernel-doc warnings for the variable length
   arguments

 - tracing/kprobes: Fix to count the symbols in modules even if the
   module name is not specified so that user can probe the symbols in
   the modules without module name

* tag 'probes-fixes-v6.6-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  tracing/kprobes: Fix symbol counting logic by looking at modules as well
  tracing/kprobes: Fix the description of variable length arguments
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Pull probes fixes from Masami Hiramatsu:

 - tracing/kprobes: Fix kernel-doc warnings for the variable length
   arguments

 - tracing/kprobes: Fix to count the symbols in modules even if the
   module name is not specified so that user can probe the symbols in
   the modules without module name

* tag 'probes-fixes-v6.6-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  tracing/kprobes: Fix symbol counting logic by looking at modules as well
  tracing/kprobes: Fix the description of variable length arguments
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing/kprobes: Fix symbol counting logic by looking at modules as well</title>
<updated>2023-10-28T00:50:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
<email>andrii@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-27T23:31:26+00:00</published>
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Recent changes to count number of matching symbols when creating
a kprobe event failed to take into account kernel modules. As such, it
breaks kprobes on kernel module symbols, by assuming there is no match.

Fix this my calling module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol() in addition to
kallsyms_on_each_match_symbol() to perform a proper counting.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231027233126.2073148-1-andrii@kernel.org/

Cc: Francis Laniel &lt;flaniel@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Fixes: b022f0c7e404 ("tracing/kprobes: Return EADDRNOTAVAIL when func matches several symbols")
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
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Recent changes to count number of matching symbols when creating
a kprobe event failed to take into account kernel modules. As such, it
breaks kprobes on kernel module symbols, by assuming there is no match.

Fix this my calling module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol() in addition to
kallsyms_on_each_match_symbol() to perform a proper counting.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231027233126.2073148-1-andrii@kernel.org/

Cc: Francis Laniel &lt;flaniel@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Fixes: b022f0c7e404 ("tracing/kprobes: Return EADDRNOTAVAIL when func matches several symbols")
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing/kprobes: Fix the description of variable length arguments</title>
<updated>2023-10-27T13:20:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yujie Liu</name>
<email>yujie.liu@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-27T04:13:14+00:00</published>
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Fix the following kernel-doc warnings:

kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c:1029: warning: Excess function parameter 'args' description in '__kprobe_event_gen_cmd_start'
kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c:1097: warning: Excess function parameter 'args' description in '__kprobe_event_add_fields'

Refer to the usage of variable length arguments elsewhere in the kernel
code, "@..." is the proper way to express it in the description.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231027041315.2613166-1-yujie.liu@intel.com/

Fixes: 2a588dd1d5d6 ("tracing: Add kprobe event command generation functions")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202310190437.paI6LYJF-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Yujie Liu &lt;yujie.liu@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mukesh Ojha &lt;quic_mojha@quicinc.com&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
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Fix the following kernel-doc warnings:

kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c:1029: warning: Excess function parameter 'args' description in '__kprobe_event_gen_cmd_start'
kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c:1097: warning: Excess function parameter 'args' description in '__kprobe_event_add_fields'

Refer to the usage of variable length arguments elsewhere in the kernel
code, "@..." is the proper way to express it in the description.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231027041315.2613166-1-yujie.liu@intel.com/

Fixes: 2a588dd1d5d6 ("tracing: Add kprobe event command generation functions")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202310190437.paI6LYJF-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Yujie Liu &lt;yujie.liu@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mukesh Ojha &lt;quic_mojha@quicinc.com&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>swiotlb: do not try to allocate a TLB bigger than MAX_ORDER pages</title>
<updated>2023-10-25T14:26:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Tesarik</name>
<email>petr.tesarik1@huawei-partners.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-25T08:44:25+00:00</published>
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When allocating a new pool at runtime, reduce the number of slabs so
that the allocation order is at most MAX_ORDER.  This avoids a kernel
warning in __alloc_pages().

The warning is relatively benign, because the pool size is subsequently
reduced when allocation fails, but it is silly to start with a request
that is known to fail, especially since this is the default behavior if
the kernel is built with CONFIG_SWIOTLB_DYNAMIC=y and booted without any
swiotlb= parameter.

Reported-by: Ben Greear &lt;greearb@candelatech.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/4f173dd2-324a-0240-ff8d-abf5c191be18@candelatech.com/
Fixes: 1aaa736815eb ("swiotlb: allocate a new memory pool when existing pools are full")
Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik &lt;petr.tesarik1@huawei-partners.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
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When allocating a new pool at runtime, reduce the number of slabs so
that the allocation order is at most MAX_ORDER.  This avoids a kernel
warning in __alloc_pages().

The warning is relatively benign, because the pool size is subsequently
reduced when allocation fails, but it is silly to start with a request
that is known to fail, especially since this is the default behavior if
the kernel is built with CONFIG_SWIOTLB_DYNAMIC=y and booted without any
swiotlb= parameter.

Reported-by: Ben Greear &lt;greearb@candelatech.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/4f173dd2-324a-0240-ff8d-abf5c191be18@candelatech.com/
Fixes: 1aaa736815eb ("swiotlb: allocate a new memory pool when existing pools are full")
Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik &lt;petr.tesarik1@huawei-partners.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>perf/core: Fix potential NULL deref</title>
<updated>2023-10-24T10:15:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-24T09:42:21+00:00</published>
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Smatch is awesome.

Fixes: 32671e3799ca ("perf: Disallow mis-matched inherited group reads")
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Smatch is awesome.

Fixes: 32671e3799ca ("perf: Disallow mis-matched inherited group reads")
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'sched-urgent-2023-10-21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2023-10-21T18:19:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-21T18:19:07+00:00</published>
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Pull scheduler fix from Ingo Molnar:
 "Fix a recently introduced use-after-free bug"

* tag 'sched-urgent-2023-10-21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/eevdf: Fix heap corruption more
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Pull scheduler fix from Ingo Molnar:
 "Fix a recently introduced use-after-free bug"

* tag 'sched-urgent-2023-10-21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/eevdf: Fix heap corruption more
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'perf-urgent-2023-10-21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2023-10-21T18:09:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-21T18:09:29+00:00</published>
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Pull perf events fix from Ingo Molnar:
 "Fix group event semantics"

* tag 'perf-urgent-2023-10-21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf: Disallow mis-matched inherited group reads
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Pull perf events fix from Ingo Molnar:
 "Fix group event semantics"

* tag 'perf-urgent-2023-10-21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf: Disallow mis-matched inherited group reads
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'probes-fixes-v6.6-rc6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2023-10-21T18:00:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-21T18:00:36+00:00</published>
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Pull probes fixes from Masami Hiramatsu:

 - kprobe-events: Fix kprobe events to reject if the attached symbol is
   not unique name because it may not the function which the user want
   to attach to. (User can attach a probe to such symbol using the
   nearest unique symbol + offset.)

 - selftest: Add a testcase to ensure the kprobe event rejects non
   unique symbol correctly.

* tag 'probes-fixes-v6.6-rc6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  selftests/ftrace: Add new test case which checks non unique symbol
  tracing/kprobes: Return EADDRNOTAVAIL when func matches several symbols
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Pull probes fixes from Masami Hiramatsu:

 - kprobe-events: Fix kprobe events to reject if the attached symbol is
   not unique name because it may not the function which the user want
   to attach to. (User can attach a probe to such symbol using the
   nearest unique symbol + offset.)

 - selftest: Add a testcase to ensure the kprobe event rejects non
   unique symbol correctly.

* tag 'probes-fixes-v6.6-rc6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  selftests/ftrace: Add new test case which checks non unique symbol
  tracing/kprobes: Return EADDRNOTAVAIL when func matches several symbols
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