From: Xiangyu Chen <xiangyu.chen@eng.windriver.com>
To: peterz@infradead.org, elver@google.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, zhe.he@windriver.com
Subject: [PATCH 5.10.y] perf: Fix perf_pending_task() UaF
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2025 14:10:44 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250408061044.3786102-1-xiangyu.chen@eng.windriver.com> (raw)
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
[ Upstream commit 517e6a301f34613bff24a8e35b5455884f2d83d8 ]
Per syzbot it is possible for perf_pending_task() to run after the
event is free()'d. There are two related but distinct cases:
- the task_work was already queued before destroying the event;
- destroying the event itself queues the task_work.
The first cannot be solved using task_work_cancel() since
perf_release() itself might be called from a task_work (____fput),
which means the current->task_works list is already empty and
task_work_cancel() won't be able to find the perf_pending_task()
entry.
The simplest alternative is extending the perf_event lifetime to cover
the task_work.
The second is just silly, queueing a task_work while you know the
event is going away makes no sense and is easily avoided by
re-arranging how the event is marked STATE_DEAD and ensuring it goes
through STATE_OFF on the way down.
Reported-by: syzbot+9228d6098455bb209ec8@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
[ Discard the changes in event_sched_out() due to 5.10 don't have the
commit: 97ba62b27867 ("perf: Add support for SIGTRAP on perf events")
and commit: ca6c21327c6a ("perf: Fix missing SIGTRAPs") ]
Signed-off-by: Xiangyu Chen <xiangyu.chen@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: He Zhe <zhe.he@windriver.com>
---
Verified the build test.
---
kernel/events/core.c | 16 ++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 8f19d6ab039e..798c839a00b3 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -2419,6 +2419,7 @@ group_sched_out(struct perf_event *group_event,
}
#define DETACH_GROUP 0x01UL
+#define DETACH_DEAD 0x04UL
/*
* Cross CPU call to remove a performance event
@@ -2439,10 +2440,18 @@ __perf_remove_from_context(struct perf_event *event,
update_cgrp_time_from_cpuctx(cpuctx, false);
}
+ /*
+ * Ensure event_sched_out() switches to OFF, at the very least
+ * this avoids raising perf_pending_task() at this time.
+ */
+ if (flags & DETACH_DEAD)
+ event->pending_disable = 1;
event_sched_out(event, cpuctx, ctx);
if (flags & DETACH_GROUP)
perf_group_detach(event);
list_del_event(event, ctx);
+ if (flags & DETACH_DEAD)
+ event->state = PERF_EVENT_STATE_DEAD;
if (!ctx->nr_events && ctx->is_active) {
if (ctx == &cpuctx->ctx)
@@ -5111,9 +5120,7 @@ int perf_event_release_kernel(struct perf_event *event)
ctx = perf_event_ctx_lock(event);
WARN_ON_ONCE(ctx->parent_ctx);
- perf_remove_from_context(event, DETACH_GROUP);
- raw_spin_lock_irq(&ctx->lock);
/*
* Mark this event as STATE_DEAD, there is no external reference to it
* anymore.
@@ -5125,8 +5132,7 @@ int perf_event_release_kernel(struct perf_event *event)
* Thus this guarantees that we will in fact observe and kill _ALL_
* child events.
*/
- event->state = PERF_EVENT_STATE_DEAD;
- raw_spin_unlock_irq(&ctx->lock);
+ perf_remove_from_context(event, DETACH_GROUP|DETACH_DEAD);
perf_event_ctx_unlock(event, ctx);
@@ -6533,6 +6539,8 @@ static void perf_pending_event(struct irq_work *entry)
if (rctx >= 0)
perf_swevent_put_recursion_context(rctx);
+
+ put_event(event);
}
/*
--
2.34.1
next reply other threads:[~2025-04-08 6:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-04-08 6:10 Xiangyu Chen [this message]
2025-04-10 15:53 ` [PATCH 5.10.y] perf: Fix perf_pending_task() UaF Sasha Levin
2025-04-11 1:17 ` Xiangyu Chen
2025-04-23 14:15 ` Greg KH
2025-04-24 6:33 ` Xiangyu Chen
2025-04-24 9:12 ` Xiangyu Chen
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