linux-kernel - [PATCH] x86/resctrl: Prevent NULL pointer dereference when reading mondata

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Date:   Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:25:02 +0800
From:   Xiaochen Shen <xiaochen.shen@...el.com>
To:     tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, bp@...en8.de, hpa@...or.com,
        tony.luck@...el.com, fenghua.yu@...el.com,
        reinette.chatre@...el.com
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, pei.p.jia@...el.com,
        xiaochen.shen@...el.com
Subject: [PATCH] x86/resctrl: Prevent NULL pointer dereference when reading mondata

When a mon group is being deleted, rdtgrp->flags is set to RDT_DELETED
in rdtgroup_rmdir_mon() firstly. The structure of rdtgrp will be freed
until rdtgrp->waitcount is dropped to 0 in rdtgroup_kn_unlock() later.

During the window of deleting a mon group, if an application calls
rdtgroup_mondata_show() to read mondata under this mon group,
'rdtgrp' returned from rdtgroup_kn_lock_live() is a NULL pointer when
rdtgrp->flags is RDT_DELETED. And then 'rdtgrp' is passed in this path:
rdtgroup_mondata_show() --> mon_event_read() --> mon_event_count().
Thus it results in NULL pointer dereference in mon_event_count().

Add checking of 'rdtgrp' in rdtgroup_mondata_show(), and return -ENOENT
immediately when reading mondata during the window of deleting a mon
group.

Fixes: d89b7379015f ("x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add mon_data")
Signed-off-by: Xiaochen Shen <xiaochen.shen@...el.com>
Reviewed-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/ctrlmondata.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/ctrlmondata.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/ctrlmondata.c
index efbd54cc4e69..055c8613b531 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/ctrlmondata.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/ctrlmondata.c
@@ -522,6 +522,10 @@ int rdtgroup_mondata_show(struct seq_file *m, void *arg)
 	int ret = 0;

 	rdtgrp = rdtgroup_kn_lock_live(of->kn);
+	if (!rdtgrp) {
+		ret = -ENOENT;
+		goto out;
+	}

 	md.priv = of->kn->priv;
 	resid = md.u.rid;
-- 
1.8.3.1