From: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
bpf@vger.kernel.org, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>,
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>, Wen Yang <wen.yang@linux.dev>,
Tobias Schaffner <tobias.schaffner@siemens.com>,
Viktor Malik <vmalik@redhat.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH 09/20] rv: Handle unregistered monitors safely in tracefs
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 11:05:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260831090524.106845-10-gmonaco@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260831090524.106845-1-gmonaco@redhat.com>
With the introduction of pluggable BPF monitors, a monitor can be
dynamically unregistered while its tracefs files are still open by a
userspace process. This leaves a dangling pointer in the tracefs file
descriptor's private_data.
Validate that the monitor pointer still exists in the rv_monitors_list
before dereferencing it during read/write operations and return an error
otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
---
kernel/trace/rv/rv.c | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
kernel/trace/rv/rv.h | 1 +
kernel/trace/rv/rv_reactors.c | 6 ++++++
3 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/rv/rv.c b/kernel/trace/rv/rv.c
index 33919c5fbd6a..6ddd3b92da1d 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/rv/rv.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/rv/rv.c
@@ -245,13 +245,31 @@ struct rv_monitor *rv_get_monitor_by_name(const char *name)
/*
* This section collects the monitor/ files and folders.
*/
+
+bool rv_is_monitor_registered(struct rv_monitor *mon)
+{
+ struct rv_monitor *m;
+
+ list_for_each_entry_rcu(m, &rv_monitors_list, list,
+ lockdep_is_held(&rv_interface_lock)) {
+ if (m == mon)
+ return true;
+ }
+ return false;
+}
+
static ssize_t monitor_enable_read_data(struct file *filp, char __user *user_buf, size_t count,
loff_t *ppos)
{
struct rv_monitor *mon = filp->private_data;
const char *buff;
- buff = mon->enabled ? "1\n" : "0\n";
+ scoped_guard(rcu) {
+ if (!rv_is_monitor_registered(mon))
+ return -ENODEV;
+
+ buff = mon->enabled ? "1\n" : "0\n";
+ }
return simple_read_from_buffer(user_buf, count, ppos, buff, strlen(buff)+1);
}
@@ -384,6 +402,9 @@ static ssize_t monitor_enable_write_data(struct file *filp, const char __user *u
guard(mutex)(&rv_interface_lock);
+ if (!rv_is_monitor_registered(mon))
+ return -ENODEV;
+
if (val)
retval = rv_enable_monitor(mon);
else
@@ -407,9 +428,14 @@ static ssize_t monitor_desc_read_data(struct file *filp, char __user *user_buf,
struct rv_monitor *mon = filp->private_data;
char buff[MAX_RV_DESCRIPTION_SIZE + 2];
- memset(buff, 0, sizeof(buff));
+ scoped_guard(rcu) {
+ if (!rv_is_monitor_registered(mon))
+ return -ENODEV;
- snprintf(buff, sizeof(buff), "%.*s\n", MAX_RV_DESCRIPTION_SIZE, mon->description);
+ memset(buff, 0, sizeof(buff));
+ snprintf(buff, sizeof(buff), "%.*s\n", MAX_RV_DESCRIPTION_SIZE,
+ mon->description);
+ }
return simple_read_from_buffer(user_buf, count, ppos, buff, strlen(buff) + 1);
}
diff --git a/kernel/trace/rv/rv.h b/kernel/trace/rv/rv.h
index 4d2c9cb284c9..6650ee9de308 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/rv/rv.h
+++ b/kernel/trace/rv/rv.h
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ int rv_enable_monitor(struct rv_monitor *mon);
bool rv_is_container_monitor(struct rv_monitor *mon);
bool rv_is_nested_monitor(struct rv_monitor *mon);
struct rv_monitor *rv_get_monitor_by_name(const char *name);
+bool rv_is_monitor_registered(struct rv_monitor *mon);
#ifdef CONFIG_RV_REACTORS
int reactor_populate_monitor(struct rv_monitor *mon, struct dentry *root);
diff --git a/kernel/trace/rv/rv_reactors.c b/kernel/trace/rv/rv_reactors.c
index 2f5fc8d18dea..e23e0b5cc0ca 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/rv/rv_reactors.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/rv/rv_reactors.c
@@ -142,6 +142,9 @@ static int monitor_reactor_show(struct seq_file *m, void *p)
struct rv_monitor *mon = m->private;
struct rv_reactor *reactor = container_of(p, struct rv_reactor, list);
+ if (!rv_is_monitor_registered(mon))
+ return -ENODEV;
+
if (mon->reactor == reactor)
seq_printf(m, "[%s]\n", reactor->name);
else
@@ -235,6 +238,9 @@ monitor_reactors_write(struct file *file, const char __user *user_buf,
guard(mutex)(&rv_interface_lock);
+ if (!rv_is_monitor_registered(mon))
+ return -ENODEV;
+
list_for_each_entry(reactor, &rv_reactors_list, list) {
if (strcmp(ptr, reactor->name) != 0)
continue;
--
2.55.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-31 9:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-31 9:05 [RFC PATCH 00/20] rv: Add support for BPF monitors Gabriele Monaco
2026-08-31 9:05 ` [RFC PATCH 01/20] sched: Add task enqueue/dequeue trace points Gabriele Monaco
2026-08-31 9:32 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-31 9:05 ` [RFC PATCH 02/20] tools/rv: Skip empty pid error in selftest if command failed Gabriele Monaco
2026-08-31 9:05 ` [RFC PATCH 03/20] rv: Refactor da_trace() functions to get strings internally Gabriele Monaco
2026-08-31 9:05 ` [RFC PATCH 04/20] rv: Use static arrays for rv_monitor name and description Gabriele Monaco
2026-08-31 9:05 ` [RFC PATCH 05/20] rv: Add in-kernel support for BPF monitors Gabriele Monaco
2026-08-31 9:05 ` [RFC PATCH 06/20] rv: Add rv_get_monitor_by_name() Gabriele Monaco
2026-08-31 9:24 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-31 9:05 ` [RFC PATCH 07/20] rv: Add reactors support to BPF monitors Gabriele Monaco
2026-08-31 9:05 ` [RFC PATCH 08/20] rv: Cast result of model_get_*_name() Gabriele Monaco
2026-08-31 9:05 ` Gabriele Monaco [this message]
2026-08-31 9:24 ` [RFC PATCH 09/20] rv: Handle unregistered monitors safely in tracefs sashiko-bot
2026-08-31 9:05 ` [RFC PATCH 10/20] tools/build: Add a feature test for bpftool-btf Gabriele Monaco
2026-08-31 9:05 ` [RFC PATCH 11/20] tools/rv: Move argument parsing from in_kernel to utils Gabriele Monaco
2026-08-31 9:05 ` [RFC PATCH 12/20] tools/rv: Export functionality for in_kernel monitors Gabriele Monaco
2026-08-31 9:05 ` [RFC PATCH 13/20] tools/rv: Implement BPF monitor loading and tracing Gabriele Monaco
2026-08-31 9:34 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-31 9:05 ` [RFC PATCH 14/20] tools/rv: Implement BPF monitor registration logic Gabriele Monaco
2026-08-31 9:38 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-31 9:05 ` [RFC PATCH 15/20] tools/rv: Copy stripped bpf_atomic.h from libarena Gabriele Monaco
2026-08-31 9:38 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-31 9:05 ` [RFC PATCH 16/20] tools/rv: Add BPF monitors Gabriele Monaco
2026-08-31 9:40 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-31 9:05 ` [RFC PATCH 17/20] tools/rv: Define CONFIG_X86_64 statically for " Gabriele Monaco
2026-08-31 9:05 ` [RFC PATCH 18/20] verification/rvgen: Add support " Gabriele Monaco
2026-08-31 9:41 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-31 9:05 ` [RFC PATCH 19/20] tools/rv: Add selftest for rv bpf Gabriele Monaco
2026-08-31 9:44 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-31 9:05 ` [RFC PATCH 20/20] verification/rvgen: Add selftest for rvgen -b Gabriele Monaco
2026-09-01 18:35 ` [RFC PATCH 00/20] rv: Add support for BPF monitors Nam Cao
2026-09-02 6:52 ` Gabriele Monaco
2026-09-02 7:46 ` Nam Cao
2026-09-03 1:57 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2026-09-03 7:21 ` Gabriele Monaco
2026-09-03 13:02 ` Steven Rostedt
2026-09-04 3:30 ` Alexei Starovoitov
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