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| author | Jérémy Jean <Jeremy.Jean@oss.cyber.gouv.fr> | 2026-08-27 18:43:22 +0000 |
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| committer | Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> | 2026-08-27 21:30:22 -0400 |
| commit | 390f6bd8583d177029d9df4bea6667509e55a765 (patch) | |
| tree | 5317be8482875dd24e4c04c99bdc7eb03bcda80d /tools/perf/scripts/python/task-analyzer.py | |
| parent | 6727b7618f49401acf373fa3ec5712e2ec52e5cf (diff) | |
tracing/user_events: Clear copied tracing state before fork duplication
dup_task_struct() copies user_event_mm from the parent into the child,
without grabbing a reference to it. user_event_mm_dup() should
replace it, but it leaves that copied pointer unmodified if
user_event_mm_alloc() fails.
When the child exits, user_event_mm_remove() decrements a reference
the child never owned, which ultimately frees user_event_mm, while
the parent still as a stale pointer to it. This creates a UAF, which
KASAN reports as:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in
current_user_event_mm+0x51/0x1d0 Write of size 4 at addr
ffff888005010d30 by task init/44
Call Trace:
<TASK>
kasan_report+0xce/0x100
kasan_check_range+0x10f/0x1e0
current_user_event_mm+0x51/0x1d0
user_events_ioctl+0x82e/0x15c0
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x139/0x1c0
do_syscall_64+0xce/0x450
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
Allocated by task 44:
__kasan_kmalloc+0x8f/0xa0
__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x180/0x3a0
user_event_mm_alloc+0x3c/0x1f0
current_user_event_mm+0x88/0x1d0
Freed by task 42:
__kasan_slab_free+0x43/0x70
kfree+0x13a/0x390
process_one_work+0x696/0xf90
worker_thread+0x420/0xba0
The fix simply clears the copied pointer before any possible failure.
In case of failure, the child then has nothing to free.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 7235759084a4 ("tracing/user_events: Use remote writes for event enablement")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260827184321.2964601-2-Jeremy.Jean@oss.cyber.gouv.fr
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5
Signed-off-by: Jérémy Jean <Jeremy.Jean@oss.cyber.gouv.fr>
Reviewed-by: Bradley Morgan <brads@mainlining.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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