Re: tracing: user events UAF crash report

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Fri, 19 Jul 2024 22:47:01 +0200
Mathias Krause <minipli@grsecurity.net> wrote:

> Subject: [PATCH] eventfs: Don't return NULL in eventfs_create_dir()
> 
> Commit 77a06c33a22d ("eventfs: Test for ei->is_freed when accessing
> ei->dentry") added another check, testing if the parent was freed after
> we released the mutex. If so, the function returns NULL. However, all
> callers expect it to either return a valid pointer or an error pointer,
> at least since commit 5264a2f4bb3b ("tracing: Fix a NULL vs IS_ERR() bug
> in event_subsystem_dir()"). Returning NULL will therefore fail the error
> condition check in the caller.
> 
> Fix this by substituting the NULL return value with a fitting error
> pointer.
> 
> Fixes: 77a06c33a22d ("eventfs: Test for ei->is_freed when accessing ei->dentry")
> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@grsecurity.net>

This will not get into the workflow without being sent as a normal patch.

Please send it and Cc those listed in MAINTAINERS (see get_maintainers.pl).

-- Steve


> ---
>  fs/tracefs/event_inode.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
> index 5d88c184f0fc..a9c28a1d5dc8 100644
> --- a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
> +++ b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
> @@ -736,7 +736,7 @@ struct eventfs_inode *eventfs_create_dir(const char *name, struct eventfs_inode
>  	/* Was the parent freed? */
>  	if (list_empty(&ei->list)) {
>  		cleanup_ei(ei);
> -		ei = NULL;
> +		ei = ERR_PTR(-EBUSY);
>  	}
>  	return ei;