From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
patches@lists.linux.dev,
syzbot+3f51ad7ac3ae57a6fdcc@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
syzbot+47cf95ca1f9dcca872c8@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
syzbot+8a173e13208949931dc7@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
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Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>,
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
Marco Elver <elver@google.com>, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.10 16/43] kcov: fix data corruption and race conditions on PREEMPT_RT
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:35:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260831133359.240681549@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260831133358.571886287@linuxfoundation.org>
5.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------
From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
[ Upstream commit 2eed77fdcb0cc48e8eccb2bcd4b7f2c6d650e84c ]
syzbot is reporting KCOV state corruption on PREEMPT_RT kernels, for the
temporary storage used for saving/restoring remote KCOV state is currently
allocated as the per-CPU area.
On PREEMPT_RT kernels, softirq handlers run as preemptible task threads
(e.g., ksoftirqd). If a softirq context preempts a task running a remote
KCOV session, it safely saves the task's state into the per-CPU area.
However, if that softirq thread is subsequently preempted by a higher-
priority softirq thread on the same CPU, the second softirq will overwrite
the same per-CPU area, permanently destroying the original task's KCOV
state.
Fix this data corruption by moving the temporary storage from the per-CPU
area to the per-thread area. Since each softirq thread now owns its own
task context, nested softirq preemption no longer causes data overwrites.
Note that while the temporary storage is now on a per-thread basis, the
per-CPU kcov_percpu_data.lock must be retained, for we need to ensure that
kcov_remote_start() and kcov_remote_stop() operate atomically without
racing against asynchronous interrupts that manipulate the current task's
KCOV state.
It is likely that GFP_KERNEL allocation by vmalloc_node() in kcov_init()
has already called panic() before returning NULL, for there will be no
OOM-killable userspace processes when __init function of built-in module
runs. But this patch also fixes crashing the kernel when vmalloc_node()
in kcov_init() returned NULL, for kcov_init() left per-CPU irq_area == NULL
but kcov_remote_start() depends on per-CPU irq_area != NULL, resulting in
(1) doing vmalloc() in kcov_remote_start() despite !in_task() context
(2) out-of-array-bounds access if (1) succeeded but
kcov->remote_size < CONFIG_KCOV_IRQ_AREA_SIZE
(3) always leak memory allocated by (1), eventually killing all
OOM-killable userspace processes
problems.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/43552d09-2ce2-4b19-b0d3-a2d1ab952145@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp
Reported-by: syzbot+3f51ad7ac3ae57a6fdcc@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=3f51ad7ac3ae57a6fdcc
Reported-by: syzbot+47cf95ca1f9dcca872c8@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=47cf95ca1f9dcca872c8
Reported-by: syzbot+8a173e13208949931dc7@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=8a173e13208949931dc7
Reported-by: syzbot+90984d3713722683112e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=90984d3713722683112e
Analyzed-by: AI Mode in Google Search (no mail address)
Fixes: 5ff3b30ab57d ("kcov: collect coverage from interrupts")
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
include/linux/sched.h | 8 ++++
kernel/kcov.c | 93 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
lib/Kconfig.debug | 5 +-
3 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1295,6 +1295,14 @@ struct task_struct {
/* Collect coverage from softirq context: */
unsigned int kcov_softirq;
+
+ /* Temporary storage for preempting remote coverage collection: */
+ unsigned int kcov_saved_mode;
+ unsigned int kcov_saved_size;
+ void *kcov_saved_area;
+ struct kcov *kcov_saved_kcov;
+ int kcov_saved_sequence;
+
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
--- a/kernel/kcov.c
+++ b/kernel/kcov.c
@@ -84,20 +84,10 @@ struct kcov_remote {
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(kcov_remote_lock);
static DEFINE_HASHTABLE(kcov_remote_map, 4);
-static struct list_head kcov_remote_areas = LIST_HEAD_INIT(kcov_remote_areas);
-
-struct kcov_percpu_data {
- void *irq_area;
-
- unsigned int saved_mode;
- unsigned int saved_size;
- void *saved_area;
- struct kcov *saved_kcov;
- int saved_sequence;
+static struct list_head kcov_remote_areas[2] = {
+ LIST_HEAD_INIT(kcov_remote_areas[0]), LIST_HEAD_INIT(kcov_remote_areas[1])
};
-static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct kcov_percpu_data, kcov_percpu_data);
-
/* Must be called with kcov_remote_lock locked. */
static struct kcov_remote *kcov_remote_find(u64 handle)
{
@@ -127,12 +117,13 @@ static struct kcov_remote *kcov_remote_a
}
/* Must be called with kcov_remote_lock locked. */
-static struct kcov_remote_area *kcov_remote_area_get(unsigned int size)
+static struct kcov_remote_area *kcov_remote_area_get(unsigned int size, bool irq)
{
struct kcov_remote_area *area;
struct list_head *pos;
+ struct list_head *list = &kcov_remote_areas[irq];
- list_for_each(pos, &kcov_remote_areas) {
+ list_for_each(pos, list) {
area = list_entry(pos, struct kcov_remote_area, list);
if (area->size == size) {
list_del(&area->list);
@@ -144,11 +135,11 @@ static struct kcov_remote_area *kcov_rem
/* Must be called with kcov_remote_lock locked. */
static void kcov_remote_area_put(struct kcov_remote_area *area,
- unsigned int size)
+ unsigned int size, bool irq)
{
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&area->list);
area->size = size;
- list_add(&area->list, &kcov_remote_areas);
+ list_add(&area->list, &kcov_remote_areas[irq]);
}
static notrace bool check_kcov_mode(enum kcov_mode needed_mode, struct task_struct *t)
@@ -357,6 +348,12 @@ void kcov_task_init(struct task_struct *
{
kcov_task_reset(t);
t->kcov_handle = current->kcov_handle;
+ t->kcov_softirq = 0;
+ t->kcov_saved_mode = 0;
+ t->kcov_saved_size = 0;
+ t->kcov_saved_area = NULL;
+ t->kcov_saved_kcov = NULL;
+ t->kcov_saved_sequence = 0;
}
static void kcov_reset(struct kcov *kcov)
@@ -778,34 +775,31 @@ static inline bool kcov_mode_enabled(uns
static void kcov_remote_softirq_start(struct task_struct *t)
{
- struct kcov_percpu_data *data = this_cpu_ptr(&kcov_percpu_data);
unsigned int mode;
mode = READ_ONCE(t->kcov_mode);
barrier();
if (kcov_mode_enabled(mode)) {
- data->saved_mode = mode;
- data->saved_size = t->kcov_size;
- data->saved_area = t->kcov_area;
- data->saved_sequence = t->kcov_sequence;
- data->saved_kcov = t->kcov;
+ t->kcov_saved_mode = mode;
+ t->kcov_saved_size = t->kcov_size;
+ t->kcov_saved_area = t->kcov_area;
+ t->kcov_saved_sequence = t->kcov_sequence;
+ t->kcov_saved_kcov = t->kcov;
kcov_stop(t);
}
}
static void kcov_remote_softirq_stop(struct task_struct *t)
{
- struct kcov_percpu_data *data = this_cpu_ptr(&kcov_percpu_data);
-
- if (data->saved_kcov) {
- kcov_start(t, data->saved_kcov, data->saved_size,
- data->saved_area, data->saved_mode,
- data->saved_sequence);
- data->saved_mode = 0;
- data->saved_size = 0;
- data->saved_area = NULL;
- data->saved_sequence = 0;
- data->saved_kcov = NULL;
+ if (t->kcov_saved_kcov) {
+ kcov_start(t, t->kcov_saved_kcov, t->kcov_saved_size,
+ t->kcov_saved_area, t->kcov_saved_mode,
+ t->kcov_saved_sequence);
+ t->kcov_saved_mode = 0;
+ t->kcov_saved_size = 0;
+ t->kcov_saved_area = NULL;
+ t->kcov_saved_sequence = 0;
+ t->kcov_saved_kcov = NULL;
}
}
@@ -865,16 +859,16 @@ void kcov_remote_start(u64 handle)
sequence = kcov->sequence;
if (in_task()) {
size = kcov->remote_size;
- area = kcov_remote_area_get(size);
+ area = kcov_remote_area_get(size, false);
} else {
size = CONFIG_KCOV_IRQ_AREA_SIZE;
- area = this_cpu_ptr(&kcov_percpu_data)->irq_area;
+ area = kcov_remote_area_get(size, true);
}
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&kcov_remote_lock, flags);
- /* Can only happen when in_task(). */
+ /* Allocate new buffer if we can sleep. */
if (!area) {
- area = vmalloc(size * sizeof(unsigned long));
+ area = in_task() ? vmalloc(size * sizeof(unsigned long)) : NULL;
if (!area) {
kcov_put(kcov);
return;
@@ -1008,11 +1002,9 @@ void kcov_remote_stop(void)
kcov_move_area(kcov->mode, kcov->area, kcov->size, area);
spin_unlock(&kcov->lock);
- if (in_task()) {
- spin_lock(&kcov_remote_lock);
- kcov_remote_area_put(area, size);
- spin_unlock(&kcov_remote_lock);
- }
+ spin_lock(&kcov_remote_lock);
+ kcov_remote_area_put(area, size, !in_task());
+ spin_unlock(&kcov_remote_lock);
local_irq_restore(flags);
@@ -1030,14 +1022,21 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kcov_common_handle);
static int __init kcov_init(void)
{
- int cpu;
+ int cpu = num_possible_cpus();
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT
+ /* Allocate some extra buffers in order to prepare for softirq preemption. */
+ cpu = cpu >= 4 ? cpu * 2 : cpu + 4;
+#endif
+ while (cpu--) {
+ void *area = vmalloc(CONFIG_KCOV_IRQ_AREA_SIZE * sizeof(unsigned long));
+ unsigned long flags;
- for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
- void *area = vmalloc(CONFIG_KCOV_IRQ_AREA_SIZE *
- sizeof(unsigned long));
if (!area)
return -ENOMEM;
- per_cpu_ptr(&kcov_percpu_data, cpu)->irq_area = area;
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&kcov_remote_lock, flags);
+ kcov_remote_area_put(area, CONFIG_KCOV_IRQ_AREA_SIZE, true);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&kcov_remote_lock, flags);
}
/*
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -1952,10 +1952,11 @@ config KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL
config KCOV_IRQ_AREA_SIZE
hex "Size of interrupt coverage collection area in words"
depends on KCOV
+ range 0x80 0x1000000
default 0x40000
help
- KCOV uses preallocated per-cpu areas to collect coverage from
- soft interrupts. This specifies the size of those areas in the
+ KCOV uses preallocated areas to collect coverage from soft
+ interrupts. This specifies the size of those areas in the
number of unsigned long words.
menuconfig RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU
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