linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Uprobes: Fix kernel oops with delayed_uprobe

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Message-Id: <556c2aa5-550d-d96f-7ed2-549d8f3d803b@linux.ibm.com>
Date:   Thu, 15 Nov 2018 09:36:42 +0530
From:   Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:     srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, rostedt@...dmis.org,
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        Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Uprobes: Fix kernel oops with delayed_uprobe_remove()

Hi Oleg,

On 11/14/18 9:36 PM, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 11/14, Ravi Bangoria wrote:
>>
>> syzbot reported a kernel crash with delayed_uprobe_remove():
>>   https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/11/1/1244
>>
>> Backtrace mentioned in the link points to a race between process
>> exit and uprobe_unregister(). Fix it by locking delayed_uprobe_lock
>> before calling delayed_uprobe_remove() from put_uprobe().
> 
> The patch looks good to me, but could you update the changelog?
> 
> Please explain that the exiting task calls uprobe_clear_state() which
> can race with delayed_uprobe_remove(). IIUC this is the only problem
> solved by this patch, right?

Right. Is this better:

There could be a race between task exit and probe unregister:

  exit_mm()
  mmput()
  __mmput()                     uprobe_unregister()
  uprobe_clear_state()          put_uprobe()
  delayed_uprobe_remove()       delayed_uprobe_remove()

put_uprobe() is calling delayed_uprobe_remove() without taking
delayed_uprobe_lock and thus the race sometimes results in a
kernel crash. Fix this by taking delayed_uprobe_lock before
calling delayed_uprobe_remove() from put_uprobe().

Detailed crash log can be found at:
  https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/11/1/1244