linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf/core: fix use-after-free in uprobe_perf

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Date:   Mon, 9 Apr 2018 13:48:45 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Prashant Bhole <bhole_prashant_q7@....ntt.co.jp>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf/core: fix use-after-free in uprobe_perf_close

On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 07:03:46PM +0900, Prashant Bhole wrote:
> A use-after-free bug was caught by KASAN while running usdt related
> code. (BCC project. bcc/tests/python/test_usdt2.py)
> 
<snip>
> 
> Allocated by task 870:
>  kasan_kmalloc+0xa0/0xd0
>  kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x11a/0x430
>  copy_process.part.19+0x11a0/0x41c0
>  _do_fork+0x1be/0xa20
>  do_syscall_64+0x198/0x490
>  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x3d/0xa2
> 
> Freed by task 0:
>  __kasan_slab_free+0x12e/0x180
>  kmem_cache_free+0x102/0x4d0
>  free_task+0xfe/0x160
>  __put_task_struct+0x189/0x290
>  delayed_put_task_struct+0x119/0x250
>  rcu_process_callbacks+0xa6c/0x1b60
>  __do_softirq+0x238/0x7ae
> 
> The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff880384f9b480
>  which belongs to the cache task_struct of size 12928
> 
> It occurs because task_struct is freed before perf_event which refers
> to the task and task flags are checked while teardown of the event.
> perf_event_alloc() assigns task_struct to hw.target of perf_event,
> but there is no reference counting for it.
> 
> As a fix we get_task_struct() in perf_event_alloc() at above mentioned
> assignment and put_task_struct() in _free_event().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Prashant Bhole <bhole_prashant_q7@....ntt.co.jp>

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>

Ingo, can you make this happen, probably with a Cc-stable as well.